LGBT themed movie and TV reviews by Mspacclown
Elliot (Cooper Hoffman) is an affable slacker, fresh out of college. He takes a menial job at the studio of Erika Tracey (Olivia Wilde), a narcissistic artist. She immediately clocks him as a potential sub. Soon he’s having intense sex … Continue reading Movie Review: I Want Your Sex (2026)
Alice Oseman’s Heartstopper premiered on the page in 2016 and the screen in 2022. A generation of LGBTQ+ youth have grown up alongside Nick Nelson and Charlie Spring. The first two seasons balanced sweetness with darker topics of abuse and … Continue reading LGBT Movies: Heartstopper Forever (2026)
Gay teens are outed in a conservative town. Their parents drag them to a preacher who places a curse on them. They will be stalked by an entity. It takes the form of the one you desire most. If you … Continue reading LGBT Movies: Leviticus (2026)
25 years ago today, Mulholland Drive, my favorite film of all time, debuted at the Cannes Film Festival. In honor of this milestone, I share an essay about what the film has meant to me over the years. Coming of … Continue reading The Day Thread Celebrates “Mulholland Drive”
Trigger Warning: The following film discusses self-harm. A Single Man follows George (Colin Firth), a college professor teaching in Southern California. His long-time partner (Matthew Goode) has died in a car accident and he is inconsolable. As the day continues, … Continue reading LGBT Movies: A Single Man (2009)
It is a truth, universally acknowledged, that most film love triangles could be solved by a threesome. Bed and Sofa (aka Tretia Meshchanskaia), a Russian film from 1927, would come close to this suggestion. A Russian housewife cheats on her … Continue reading LGBT Movies: Bed and Sofa (1927)
When Rocco (Andrea Amato) comes out, his liberal parents (Veronica Pivetti and Corrado Invernizzi) react poorly. He leaves town, in a rage, to see his favorite singer (Jacopo Brogioni) in concert. His helicopter mom pursues. A Little Lust (Né Giulietta, … Continue reading LGBT Movies: A Little Lust (2015)
Kink, consent, and queer self-acceptance create a complicated portrait of the relationship between a biker dom and a timid sub in Harry Lighton’s confident, accomplished feature debut Pillion. Taking place over one year, Lighton deftly brings us into the world … Continue reading LGBT Movies: Pillion (2025)
A timid scientist (Robert Pollock) is obsessed with the end of the world. He’s courted by a charismatic thief (Iain Rea) who lives in the here and now. Queer cinema was in a dark place in the 1980’s. The AIDS … Continue reading LGBT Movies: Beyond Gravity (1989)
Before Heated Rivalry we had 1925’s Battling Bruisers. A pair of boxers flirt in the middle of a match. Their fans and attendants are gay “nance” stereotypes who support the romance. The film both enforces and subverts the trope. Pansies … Continue reading LGBT Movies: Battling Bruisers (1925)
Adam est Ève (Adam is Eve) has all the trappings of a broad Hollywood farce but this 1954 film surprises by how thoughtfully and respectfully it treats it’s trans main character. This dichotomy becomes clear early on. In what seems … Continue reading LGBT Media: Adam est Ève (Adam Is Eve) (1954)
A lesbian couple finds an abandoned baby. Erin (Ali Liebert) wants to adopt it. Her wife Kelly (Katherine Barrell) does not. But she’ll be badgered and shamed into pretending she does. The Christmas Baby is the second Hallmark film to … Continue reading LGBT Media: The Christmas Baby (2025)
Shinya Suzuki (Ryoma Takeuchi), a fiery Latin Dancer, trains with Shinya Sugiki (Keita Machida), an icy Ballroom Dancer. The upcoming 10 Dance competition requires they master each other’s techniques. 10 Dance is adapted from the manga by Satoh Inoue. Class … Continue reading LGBT Movies: 10 Dance (2025)
An anxious grad student interviews a friend of the late activist Edward Carpenter. The student’s snarky boyfriend plans his birthday party. The characters discuss queer rights, age-gaps and open relationships. The film starts slowly and builds to a powerful finale. … Continue reading LGBT Movies: Only Connect (1979)
A Keller Christmas Vacation continues Hallmark’s attempt to shake up their romcom formula. Three siblings find love on a holiday cruise. They stress over careers, family secrets and past trauma. The crowded screenplay could stand to lose a subplot or … Continue reading LGBT Movies: A Keller Christmas Vacation (2025)
Kevin Glover’s Love Bites is a gay vampire softcore romcom. An amateur vampire hunter falls for his handsome target. Can love conquer all? Glover wrote the script for the stage. But filming on location, and releasing to VHS, proved more … Continue reading LGBT Movies: Love Bites (1988)
Colin Firth plays the neurotic owner of a cinema in Buenos Aires. He takes in a handsome American flat mate (Hart Bochner) and quickly becomes obsessed. The men begin a dangerous game. Martin Donovan co-wrote and directed Apartment Zero. The … Continue reading LGBT Movies: Apartment Zero (1988)
An activist (Diego Luna) and a window dresser (Tonatiuh) share a prison cell during Argentina’s military dictatorship. The dresser, Molina, copes by recounting the plot of her favorite film: Kiss of the Spider Woman. A musical fantasy starring a glamorous … Continue reading LGBT Movies: Kiss of the Spider Woman (2025)
I’ve been attending Chicago’s International LGBTQ+ Film Festival for many years now. Last season I burnt myself out watching 18 features. This year I settled for a modest 7. Dreams in Nightmares (2025, US). Queer black friends go on a … Continue reading LGBT Movies: Reeling Festival 2025
Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor sing and smooch. What more could I want? Well… Some dialogue might help. The History of Sound belongs to a subgenre I call the brooding male romance. Two quiet men begin a near-wordless relationship. The … Continue reading LGBT Movies: The History of Sound (2025)
A gay activist has been outing closeted public figures. Now he’s getting death threats. He hires Donald Strachey for protection. Strachey is an openly gay detective in Albany, NY. He takes clients that the straight world ignores. But can he … Continue reading LGBT Movies: Third Man Out (2005)
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