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The 25 “GAYS” of Christmas
Posted on 1 December, 2022Can you believe that it has been THREE YEARS since I launched Queer Film Reviews? Yup! It all started with six new queer Christmas film reviews as part of my “Top 5 Christmas Films” post in 2019. (Wait… six reviews? It was a Top 5 post? Well, it was five films – plus a special mention!) While I haven’t always been consistent with publishing new film reviews, (aka – let’s ignore the fact that I…
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3 NEW Queer Christmas Films for 2022
Posted on 26 November, 2022I’m not a huge fan of analogies, but there’s one that comes to mind while I searched for all of the new queer Christmas films premiering this holiday season. It involves a river, a dam, and climate change. For decades, the unique Christmas film niche greatly lacked any queerness; like a river that was damned, letting a small trickle through with the occasional independent queer Christmas film making its way through. In 2020, the dam…
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Adam and Steve
Posted on 18 December, 2022[“Adam and Steve” is the fourth film of my “5 Queer Holiday Shorts for 2022” post. To read the next review, “Will You Merry Me?”, click HERE. To read the previous review, “Christmas In Clyde“, click HERE.] With all of my searching each year for new queer holiday short films, I must confess that I missed one! However I can be forgiven a little bit because “Adam and Steve” premiered in May of 2019 as…
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The Bitch Who Stole Christmas
Posted on 6 December, 2022[“The Bitch Who Stole Christmas” is the first film of my “5 Queer Holiday Films for 2022” post. To read the next review, “Happiest Season”, click HERE.] When VH1 announced “The Bitch Who Stole Christmas” for Christmas 2021, I was ecstatic! Starring over twenty drag queens and judges from the iconic Emmy-winning series, RuPaul’s Drag Race, and of course, Mother Ru herself – what could go wrong? With plenty of Ru’s iconic sass, paired with…
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The Butch Who Stole Christmas
Posted on 3 December, 2022[“The Butch Who Stole Christmas” is the first film of my “5 Queer Holiday Shorts for 2022” post. To read the next review, “Xmas Eve Eve”, click HERE.] Not to be confused with VH1’s queer Christmas film, “The Butch Who Stole Christmas” is one of my interesting finds this year. This queer holiday short film from Amanda Holland’s YouTube channel, Girl Ship TV, is a lesbian parody on the iconic animated film “How The Grinch…
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The Christmas House
Posted on 16 December, 2022[“The Christmas House” is the third film of my “5 Queer Holiday Films for 2022” post. To read the next review, “The Christmas House 2: Deck Those Halls”, click HERE. To read the previous review, “Happiest Season“, click HERE.] Back in 2020, Hallmark created QUITE a stir after first promising a gay holiday film in their annual Countdown to Christmas lineup, then “forgetting” to include it when the released the lineup – before finally caving…
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The Christmas House 2: Deck Those Halls
Posted on 20 December, 2022[“The Christmas House 2: Deck Those Halls” is the fourth film of my “5 Queer Holiday Films for 2022” post. To read the next review, “Single All The Way”, click HERE. To read the previous review, “The Christmas House“, click HERE.] After their release of “The Christmas House” in 2020, Hallmark decided to give us a sequel for Christmas 2021. However while we knew a decent amount about the first film, they kept a lot…
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Christmas In Clyde
Posted on 14 December, 2022[“Christmas In Clyde” is the third film of my “5 Queer Holiday Shorts for 2022” post. To read the next review, “Adam and Steve”, click HERE. To read the previous review, “Xmas Eve Eve“, click HERE.] Once again this year, YouTube lead me to another lesbian queer Christmas short film, “Christmas In Clyde”. Alysse Dalessandro, the plus-sized fashion blogger, LGBTQ influencer, writer, designer, and professional speaker behind the blog Ready to Stare, both was the…
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Happiest Season
Posted on 12 December, 2022[“Happiest Season” is the second film of my “5 Queer Holiday Films for 2022” post. To read the next review, “The Christmas House”, click HERE. To read the previous review, “The Bitch Who Stole Christmas“, click HERE.] Initially planned to be released in theatres before finding a new home with Hulu, Clea DuVall‘s film “Happiest Season” brings a refreshing vantage point to queer representation in Christmas movies. While there had been lesbian holiday films and…
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More “Kinda” Queer Christmas Films
Posted on 1 November, 2022In 2020, I shared my Christmas post that stirred up a bit of discussion: Christmas Films that are Kinda Queer. Having rewatched most of these films since then, I stand by my decision that all of those films are only KINDA queer Christmas films. But there actually are even MORE films that meet the same criteria! Which is exactly why this year’s post was needed. But first, let me refresh you on what defines a…
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Queer Holiday Film Reviews for 2022
Posted on 6 December, 2022Overall, 2022 has a general lack of new queer Christmas films, and none of them are premiering early enough to actually write a review. To be honest, unless I want to quickly throw a review together last minute, it’s quite difficult to write my usual full reviews when queer Christmas films actually premier. So I was actually partially thankful we don’t have many to look forward to this year. In contrast, there was a MASSIVE…
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Queer Holiday Shorts for 2022
Posted on 3 December, 2022For all the hype that feature films or even TV movies get when they premiere (queer or not), short films just seem to fade into the background – unless you’re a major fan of the short film genre or follow the film festivals. So I take pride with my Queer Shorts feature on Queer Film Reviews. But even I sometimes have to do a bit of digging to find short films to meet a specific…
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Single All The Way
Posted on 24 December, 2022[“Single All The Way” is the fifth film of my “5 Queer Holiday Films for 2022” post. To read the previous review, “The Christmas House 2: Deck Those Halls”, click HERE.] Just from the synopsis alone, I felt that Netflix’s “Single All The Way” would equal some of the other great queer Christmas films. With an incredible cast including Kathy Najimy, Michael Urie, and Jennifer Coolidge, I knew that this would be entertaining. However, it’s…
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Will You Merry Me?
Posted on 22 December, 2022[“Will You Merry Me?” is the fifth film of my “5 Queer Holiday Shorts for 2022” post. To read the previous review, “Adam and Steve“, click HERE.] What a wonderful queer holiday short film! Directed and cowritten by Kevin Walls (along with Donald Cameron), “Will You Merry Me?” is a cute & romantic short that takes the nervous situation of popping the question along with the annoyance of distracting text messages and tosses it all…
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Xmas Eve Eve
Posted on 9 December, 2022[“Xmas Eve Eve” is the second film of my “5 Queer Holiday Shorts for 2022” post. To read the next review, “Christmas In Clyde”, click HERE. To read the previous review, “The Butch Who Stole Christmas“, click HERE.] One of two films from this year’s queer holiday short film reviews that premiered among the festival circuit, “Xmas eve eve” is perhaps my favorite short film on the list! Set during the height of Covid restrictions,…
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