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But the pair was also set on vastly different personal paths: Ivy is all-in on leading a supervillain group, but Harley has become part of the Bat Family and is setting her sights on using her chaotic poThu, 09 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://www.them.us/story/harley-quinn-valentines-day-special-reviewhttps://www.thepitchkc.com/you-hurt-my-feelings-is-a-warm-look-at-slight-problems/Over the course of six features, director Nicole Holofcener has built a career out of sharply observed relationship studies, usually wrapped up in white, upper-middle-class milieu. She’s largely foregone making movies in recent years, turning her attention toward screenwriting collaborations (Can You Ever Forgive Me?, The Last Duel) and directing for television. But now, 10 years after releasing her last feature, Enough Said, she’s back in the director’s chair with You Hurt My Feelings, a sweetWed, 01 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://www.thepitchkc.com/you-hurt-my-feelings-is-a-warm-look-at-slight-problems/https://www.them.us/story/skinamarink-director-kyle-edward-ball-interviewYou’re a child jolted awake in the middle of the night. Darkness has rendered even the most familiar corners of your house unrecognizable, and you can’t shake the feeling that something is hiding within the pitch-black haze, watching you. Do you know where your parents are? That visceral terror is the cornerstone of first-time director Kyle Edward Ball’s viral found-footage horror film Skinamarink, which follows two young siblings, Kaylee (Dali Rose Tetreault) and Kevin (Lucas Paul), who wake onMon, 30 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://www.them.us/story/skinamarink-director-kyle-edward-ball-interviewhttps://www.them.us/story/the-last-of-us-episode-three-gay-love-story-peter-hoar-interviewIt’s no secret that The Last of Us’ decade-long journey to the screen has been anything but straightforward. The video game’s sprawling story of wizened smuggler Joel (played in the series by Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey), the immune girl he is tasked with protecting in the aftermath of a zombie apocalypse, was originally going to be distilled into a single Sam Raimi movie. After plans for the film fell apart, The Last of Us finally cinched a series adaptation at HBO, where the game’s cMon, 30 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://www.them.us/story/the-last-of-us-episode-three-gay-love-story-peter-hoar-interviewhttps://www.thepitchkc.com/sundance-2023-eileen-is-a-jagged-ride-full-of-beautiful-turbulence/“Some people, they’re the real people, like in a movie—they’re the ones you watch,” a grizzled man (Shea Whigham) gently tells his daughter (Thomasin McKenzie) about halfway through Eileen. Eileen’s cruel alcoholic father might be referring to her, but his words could easily apply to most of the residents that populate our heroine’s ‘60s blue-collar Massachusetts town, where the only prevailing emotions seem to be anger and despair. Pulled back home years earlier to care for her late mother anFri, 27 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://www.thepitchkc.com/sundance-2023-eileen-is-a-jagged-ride-full-of-beautiful-turbulence/https://www.thepitchkc.com/sundance-2023-rye-lane-will-make-you-believe-in-rom-coms-again/If you’ve found yourself bemoaning the state of the modern rom-com, I have five words of advice for you: check out the Sundance lineup. True, the days of the genre dominating the box office might be over. But the beloved Sundance Film Festival has long championed slightly smaller, yet equally engrossing rom-coms—take 2020’s Palm Springs or 2017’s The Big Sick for example. This year, I’m thrilled to report that the festival has launched an instant classic of the genre: Rye Lane. Raine Allen-MilThu, 26 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://www.thepitchkc.com/sundance-2023-rye-lane-will-make-you-believe-in-rom-coms-again/https://www.thepitchkc.com/cat-persons-screen-adaptation-hisses-rather-than-purrs/It’s hard to overstate just how inescapable conversations surrounding Kristen Roupenian’s New Yorker short story Cat Person were when it first arrived in 2017. Running at just over 7,000 words, the viral tale of college student Margot’s ill-fated situationship with an older man named Robert provided seemingly endless fodder for timely discussions surrounding modern dating and gender roles, in no small part because of its purposeful ambiguity. The slippery grayness of consent, technology’s role Wed, 25 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://www.thepitchkc.com/cat-persons-screen-adaptation-hisses-rather-than-purrs/https://www.them.us/story/m3gan-choreographer-kylie-norris-interviewWe’re only a few weeks into 2023, but this year has already gifted us an instantly iconic horror girlie. I’m talking, of course, about M3GAN, the AI-powered killer doll at the center of Universal’s wildly successful film of the same name about a robotics engineer who creates an android companion for her orphaned niece. As soon as the first M3GAN trailer dropped last October, she instantly became the gay internet’s latest obsession. And how could she not? With her merciless one-liners, penchant Tue, 17 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://www.them.us/story/m3gan-choreographer-kylie-norris-interviewhttps://www.them.us/story/lgbtq-books-2023-previewAnother year has arrived and the world is still in a constant state of chaos. But let’s look on the bright side: a new year also means plenty of new LGBTQ+ entertainment to look forward to, from HBO’s The Last Of Us adaptation to the delightfully absurd M3GAN memes on your timeline. Whatever else happens, there will be plenty of queer stories to watch this year. But sometimes, taking it back to the basics and cracking open a good book is truly where it’s at. 2022 was a fantastic year for queer Tue, 17 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://www.them.us/story/lgbtq-books-2023-previewhttps://www.them.us/story/camryn-garrett-friday-im-in-love-author-interviewWhen I first wrote it, the story was a bit of a challenge to myself. I had a really hard time writing F/F relationships in books at the time. I think I was putting a lot of pressure on myself. I didn’t feel queer enough or like I had seen enough gay women in relationships to be writing what I was, so it always fell apart when I did. Picking it up a few years later, I was much more confident in my messy identity and also have read and seen so many women loving each other, whether in fiction or iTue, 10 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://www.them.us/story/camryn-garrett-friday-im-in-love-author-interviewhttps://www.apartmenttherapy.com/hallmark-production-design-2022-interview-37201458How a Hallmark Movie Production Designer Brings Those Iconic Holiday Rom-Coms to Life We independently select these products—if you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission. All prices were accurate at the time of publishing. Another December means another slate of cozy Hallmark holiday movies. From meet-cutes to kisses under the mistletoe, part of the charm of these stories is how they play upon well-worn romance tropes with a festive flair. But because holiday rom-coms often tweakMon, 19 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://www.apartmenttherapy.com/hallmark-production-design-2022-interview-37201458https://www.them.us/story/fletcher-girl-of-my-dreams-tik-tok-l-word-generation-q-interviewIt’s nice to see more and more queer artists be open about all the messy, real emotions that go into they go through with relationships and self-perception and everything, without feeling pressured to water those feelings down — especially in mainstream pop. What do you hope your queer fans take away from these new releases? That the story is continuously evolving, you know? That we don’t have to be so ashamed, or shy away from the really tough stuff. And I think just knowing that it’s okay forFri, 18 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://www.them.us/story/fletcher-girl-of-my-dreams-tik-tok-l-word-generation-q-interviewhttps://www.them.us/story/sapphic-literature-lgbtq-publishingVenture out to any Walmart or Target these days, and you’re bound to come across at least one sapphic book. A recent trip to my own hometown Target in suburban Missouri yielded nearly a dozen titles focusing on queer women, from adult fiction like The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Honey Girl to YA books like The Last Telegraph Club and I Kissed Shara Wheeler. It’s a jarringly welcome change from when I was a lesbian teenager in the mid-2010s. Back then, finding an openly queer title outsideTue, 15 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://www.them.us/story/sapphic-literature-lgbtq-publishinghttps://www.them.us/story/tar-cate-blanchett-movie-performanceFew things unite queer filmgoers quite like our love of Cate Blanchett. The Carol star’s captivating onscreen presence borders on bewitching, especially when she’s bringing complex lesbian characters to life. But her performance in Todd Field’s Tár may be her most mesmerizing to date — and one of her most complex. The nearly three-hour modern masterpiece follows a fictional lesbian conductor named Lydia Tár — and again, we must remind you, she is not real — as she embarks on a career goal: complSat, 05 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000https://www.them.us/story/tar-cate-blanchett-movie-performancehttps://decider.com/2022/10/14/rosaline-hulu-review/Before Romeo and Juliet, there was Romeo and Rosaline, Juliet’s headstrong older cousin. After learning that her boyfriend has dumped her for someone else, Rosaline is eager to win her star-crossed lover back. But things aren’t as they appear as the misadventures pile up. Let’s get into it… ROSALINE: STREAM IT OR SKIP IT? The Gist: Before Romeo (Kyle Allen) fell in love with Juliet (Isabela Merced) at that infamous masquerade ball, the young Montague chap was enamored with his first girlfriendFri, 14 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0100https://decider.com/2022/10/14/rosaline-hulu-review/https://decider.com/2022/10/14/high-school-freevee-review/Beloved indie pop duo Tegan and Sara have been mainstays in the music industry since the late ‘90s, but how did they become the queer icons and hitmakers they are today? That’s the basic premise of High School, an adaptation of their memoir of the same name. Let’s get into it… HIGH SCHOOL: STREAM IT OR SKIP IT? Opening Shot: Twin teenage girls Tegan and Sara (played by Seazynn and Railey Gilliland) and their best friend Phoebe (Olivia Rouyre) dance wildly to Hole’s “She Walks Over Me” in a nonFri, 14 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0100https://decider.com/2022/10/14/high-school-freevee-review/https://www.them.us/story/interview-with-the-vampires-levitating-gay-sex-sceneAlmost thirty years ago on Saturday Night Live, late Weekend Update anchor Norm MacDonald famously swatted down 1994’s Interview With the Vampire with one chief complaint: “Not gay enough!” Even back then, the dripping homoeroticism between the story’s lead characters, played by Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt, was impossible to ignore. If only Norm could see AMC’s new Interview With the Vampire TV series, which, unlike the 1994 movie and the classic Anne Rice novel it’s based on, goes all in on the eWed, 05 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0100https://www.them.us/story/interview-with-the-vampires-levitating-gay-sex-scenehttps://decider.com/2022/09/16/do-revenge-netflix-review/After making a splash in 2019 with her heartfelt directorial debut Someone Great, writer-director Jennifer Kaytin Robinson has teamed up with Netflix once again for her new teen comedy, Do Revenge. Although both films probe the intricacies of female relationships, Do Revenge is preoccupied with the viciousness of teen girlhood. Starring established teen drama stars (Riverdale’s Camila Mendes and Stranger Things’ Maya Hawke), the film imbues a classic Hitchcock story with the sickly sweet aesthetFri, 16 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0100https://decider.com/2022/09/16/do-revenge-netflix-review/https://decider.com/2022/09/15/vampire-academy-peacock-review/Remember the paranormal romance boom of the late aughts? Then you might be familiar with Richelle Mead’s Vampire Academy books, which tracked an expansive world of royal vampire intrigue and forbidden love affairs. After a 2014 film adaptation starring Zoey Deutch received lackluster attention, Peacock has opted to give this long-gestating IP a full TV adaptation. Let’s get into it… VAMPIRE ACADEMY: STREAM IT OR SKIP IT? Opening Shot: A Breaking Dawn: Part 2 credits-style montage rapidly dumpsThu, 15 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0100https://decider.com/2022/09/15/vampire-academy-peacock-review/https://decider.com/2022/09/14/the-handmaids-tale-season-5-hulu-review/The Handmaid’s Tale is back, picking up right where we left off — with June having led a shocking murder and Canada’s tenuous connection to Gilead growing stronger. Let’s get into it… THE HANDMAID’S TALE SEASON 5: STREAM IT OR SKIP IT? Opening Shot: Fresh off her stint killing Fred Waterford, June (Elisabeth Moss) dangles her bloody fingers into clear bathwater. The blood swirling against the bathtub’s pristine white surface is immediately evocative of Handmaids’ own red and white color palettWed, 14 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0100https://decider.com/2022/09/14/the-handmaids-tale-season-5-hulu-review/https://www.them.us/story/hayley-kiyoko-for-the-girls-video-oral-history“I definitely wanted to do the limo entrances and lean into some lesbian stereotypes, like having a U-Haul come in,” Kiyoko says. “There’s so much content to work with just within our community, and it was so much fun.” That attention to representation extends to the casting. Apart from the limo driver (played by Kiyoko’s own father), all the characters are played by queer actors, who Zoomed with the singer to craft their own prime time-ready personas (yes, Kimber Springs actually came up with Thu, 28 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0100https://www.them.us/story/hayley-kiyoko-for-the-girls-video-oral-historyhttps://decider.com/2022/07/28/pretty-little-liars-original-sin-episode-1-recap/When Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin was announced, I heard a common refrain: why? After all, its predecessor has only been off the air for five short years, and there’s certainly no shortage of new teen dramas for fans to sink their teeth into. But the IP gods must be satiated, and creators Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (Riverdale) and Lindsay Calhoon Bring (The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina) have the good sense to fully lean into the horror that the original series flirted with but never quite fulThu, 28 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0100https://decider.com/2022/07/28/pretty-little-liars-original-sin-episode-1-recap/