40 Hygge Movies to Get You Through the Long Dark Winter
There’s comfort viewing, and then there are movies in which the characters are comfortable. They’re not always the same thing. Some of these movies are comfy, cozy watches—though tastes vary…
The 23 Gayest Horror Movies Ever Made
Just a few short years ago, the pickings were extremely slim for horror movies with explicitly queer characters and themes—plenty of great movies with subtext (some of which we’ll get…
30 of the Best Queer Movies of the Last Century
Thirty days hath Pride month, and even in a year that’s been particularly fraught from the perspective of LGBTQ+ rights, that means you should have plenty of time to watch…
21 Truly Terrible Movie Moms to Make you Feel Better (or Worse) About Yours
It’s that time of year again: The day when we all pretend that every mother is a shining saint, a glorious martyr, a perfect vision of feminine virtue that wraps…
18 Times Someone Won an Oscar for the Wrong Movie
Won for: Shakespeare in Love Should’ve won for: Iris (2001) Iris | Official Trailer (HD) – Kate Winslet, Judi Dench, Hugh Bonneville | MIRAMAX Shakespeare in Love is a wonderful…
15 Times Oscar-Winners Slummed It in Popcorn Movies
A series about street racing that turned into a series of heist movies before eventually shooting a car into space hardly seems like the playground of serious actors. And yet…
13 Classic Stories We Can’t Stop Adapting Into Movies
Bride of Frankenstein (3/10) Movie CLIP – Teaching the Monster Manners (1935) HD Not as much of a thirst trap as Dracula, but there’s still a sexy version. Bride of…
15 Great Feminist Movies That Fail the Bechdel Test
Screenshot: Fargo/Prime Video A recent Twitter dustup called into question the whole point of the Bechdel test, a set of criteria to help gauge the representation of women in popular…
32 Movies Best Watched in Total Ignorance
The logic of film marketing suggests we need to know everything about a movie before we’ll pony up for a movie ticket—but that doesn’t mean that’s the right way to…
12 Quintessential Sidney Poitier Performances Everyone Should Know
Screenshot: In the Heat of the Night/MGM Bahamian-American actor, director, and cultural ambassador Sidney Poitier died last week at 94. Though he retired from filmmaking nearly two decades ago, he…