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Episode 90:Hello you beautiful gays! Join Sarah and Alicia for a very special live episode at the Seattle Queer Film Festival! We are discussing HEALED--a psychological thriller written by and starring Shantell Yasmine Abeydeera (Dating in Place), and co-starring Emily Goss (Dating in Place, Season of Love [which we covered in Episode 52]), and the SQFF 2023 Queer Luminary Award winner, Guinevere...

Episode 89: Nina's Heavenly Delights   Hello lovely queers! Welcome to this month's podcast, wherein Alicia introduces Sarah to one of her favorite Lesbian Films, Nina's Heavenly Delights. This 2006 romcom was done dirty by critics and even its own producers but it's kind of a joy to watch, for the most part. It's real cheesy in the best way, with family drama, a cooking competition that needs win...

Episode 88: Everything Everywhere All at Once Hi lovelies! Welcome to this month's episode, where Alicia and Sarah discuss the 2022 banger Everything Everywhere All at Once! This movie is hard to describe but you already know about it so it's fine. Join us as we talk about hot dog fingers, rocks with googly eyes, gender constructs, the everything bagel of depression, and the infinite limitations a...

Episode 87: Passing Hey lovely queers! Today Alicia and Sarah are back together talking about 2021's Passing, the adaptation of Nella Larson's 1929 novel of the same name. There's so much going on in this movie, none of which is explicitly gay per se, but all of which is very immersive and will make you think about the ways in which white supremacy and the racist and colonial American project harm...

Episode 86: Lust Life Love and interview with Stephanie Sellars! Hello gaybies! In this episode, we jump into the NYC polyamorous scene with the film Lust Life Love. Alicia interviews the co-director, writer, producer, and lead in the film, Stephanie Sellars on her inspiration for the story, the queerness of polyamory, and her own media-inspired gay awakenings. Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/wat...

Episode 85: Foxfire Hey queer cuties! This week Alicia and Sarah are digging into one of the greatest queer movies of all time that is not (but kinda is) explicitly queer: 1996's Foxfire. This movie launched Angelina Jolie's (tragically not gay enough) career! And also has so many great people in it including the Jennys: Jenny Lewis and Jenny Shimizu! The latter of which we all remember as being o...

Episode 84: Anne+ - The Film This month, we're headed to Amsterdam! In this sequel to a popular Dutch webseries of the same name, we follow Anne, a 20-something Dutch writer queer just trying to ~figure out her life~ as she cycles and walks the streets of a v picturesque city. We quite enjoyed this one and hope you do too!   Further reading: Autostraddle review by Heather Hogan Anne+ website But W...

Episode 83: D.E.B.S Hiya gays! This month we are digging into the cult classic 2004 cinematic masterpiece (arguable), D.E.B.S! This was a formative film for Alicia, and Sarah had never seen it before, but boy is it of its time. Tune in to hear Alica and Sarah relive the disturbing moment that was the aughts and its glorification of uber-thin bodies; discuss the unknown line between camp and the ma...

Episode 82: Skate Kitchen   Hi sweet queeros! This month Alicia and Sarah are talking about a movie near and dear to Sarah's heart (and now Alicia's too): 2018's vibe-fest Skate Kitchen. This film is based on a real life girls skate crew in New York City and the way they ~vibe~ with each other and their sport. Also some stuff happens with like, coming of age and parental relationships and friendsh...

Episode 81: Mars One Hi queeros! Welcome back to the pod! This month we are discussing the 2022 Brazilian film Mars One, which can be streamed on Netflix. It follows a Black family in the early days after Bolsonaro's election, which is the background noise to their daily lives. The parents work in the service industry, the tween brother is a soccer prodigy but is actually interested in joining the...

Episode 80: Elisa & Marcela   Happy new year, lovely queers! To kick off the 2023 movie-watching season, this month Alicia and Sarah go back in time to turn-of-the-20th-century Spain, where these two teenage schoolgirls get really into towel play (i.e. they fall in love at school), and spend the rest of their lives either together or trying to be together. Elisa and Marcela's story is based on a t...

Episode 79: Under the Christmas Tree Happy holigays everyone! This year for our December episode we are talking about the very Lifetime Lifetime movie Under the Christmas Tree, which is the first Lifetime lesbian Christmas romcom (say it five times fast!). It stars queer lady darling Elise Bauman and Ricki Lake it takes place in Sarah’s home state of Maine, which is kind of exciting and makes it s...

Episode 78: Erin's Guide to Kissing GirlsHiiii lovely queers! Welcome to a very special episode of Gal Pals Watch: a live recording at the Seattle Queer Film Festival! We are talking about one of their 2022 youth features, the Canadian film Erin’s Guide to Kissing Girls. Listen to Alicia and Sarah discuss positive and nuanced youth representation, how much Erin’s clothes are fashun, and then the w...

Episode 77: My Name is Pauli Murray   Hi queeros! Welcome to an episode about a movie we love! It's a documentary about Pauli Murray, who was a truly amazing nonbinary lawyer, civil rights activist, priest, and all-around human being. You should watch this movie and learn even more reasons we owe Pauli every progressive legal precedent we hope we can keep!   Further reading: Pauli Murray Wikipedia...

Episode 76: Crush   Hey queeros! Welcome back to our little lesbian-ish show, where this week Alicia and Sarah dig into a movie without much substance but a lot of charm -- Crush! This 2022 film is on Hulu and stars Rowan Blanchard and Auli'i Cravalho (who played Moana), and also Megan Mullally which is fun too. It's a ridiculous teen movie about art and romance and high school and sports and obvi...

Episode 75: Nowhere Inn   Hey hi hello! Remember a while back when the gay girl internet got really excited for a second about Dakota Johnson playing a version of Kristin Stewart in a movie with and by Annie Clark/St. Vincent and Carrie Brownstein? This is that movie, and it's on Hulu! It is... weird! Join Alicia and Sarah as they try to work through their confusion and their feelings, which are m...

Episode 74: Baka Bukas Good day, fair queers! Today on the pod we're discussing a film out of the Phillipines, 2016's Baka Bukas! This is billed as a romantic drama, and that's pretty accurate. It follows two early-20s friends working in the entertainment industry in different roles, one of whom is out as lesbian to everyone but this friend. Who then becomes the love interest. As you do. There's a...

Episode 73: The Fallout Hello queeros, this month Alicia and Sarah are delving into a movie that will hit you in the absolute feels, fyi. The movie is The Fallout, starring the dancing Sia girl (sorry, that was reductive) Maddie Ziegler and the most amazing Jenna Ortega, and a lot of other really great people, about how a few teens cope after a school shooting. This one is heavy y'all, but the mov...

Episode 72: So My Grandma's a Lesbian!   Hi loves! This month, after a brief hiatus due to cHaOs, we are back and discussing a movie that requires very little brainpower to sit through! Titled So My Grandma's a Lesbian exclamation point, this Spanish movie follows some sweet older women who love each other in a very healthy way, in contrast to the shitshow of their surroundings, which include many...

Episode 71: Hello beautiful queeros and happy Valentine's Day! (we hate it, but we also love it) Unfortunately (for some of us, like Sarah) KStew is off the market, but that won't stop us from talking about her, and today we are discussing her latest gay Christmas movie, Spencer! It is not exactly an upbeat film, and is also not that gay, but it's gayer than you might think, both explicitly and su...

Episode 70: The Party   Good evening, happy new year, and welcome to our Bougie and Pretentious evening soirée, with a side of gay. Tonight we will be discussing the 2017 Art Haus Film The Party. Topics include mortality, cocaine, cultural appropriation, academia, The Men, dated lesbian culture, Cherry Jones, Kristen Scott Thomas, murder, and plot twists! Pull up a reading chair and listen in, lov...

Episode 69: The Novice   Happy 69, queerz! This month we watch the new psychological sports thriller, The Novice, in which a college freshman is ~*very obsessed*~ with getting onto her school's varsity crew team. Some very disturbing obsessive thoughts and self harm in this one, so take care of yourselves if you watch it, but also it's pretty absorbing even if it's literally and figuratively dark...

Episode 68: Addicted to Fresno   Helloooo lovely listeners! This month we're headed to Cali, but it's the part of Cali people like to dump on, aka Fresno! In this 2015 film, Natasha Lyonne and Aubrey Plaza are gay for each other but not enough. A bunch of other stuff happens including Sister Drama and Murder, but you'll have to listen (and watch the movie, you could do that too if you want) to fin...

Episode 67: A Date for Mad Mary   Hiya queeros! This month we are watching an actually pretty good movie! The 2016 Irish film A Date for Mad Mary is a surprisingly great example of nuanced and bittersweet storytelling based on a one-woman play, and it is way better than its title. Tune in to hear us talk about ambiguity, love, and ~personal growth~ involving dancing and learning to show up and mov...

Episode 66: See You Then   Hey lovely queers! It's us, Alicia and Sarah! This month, we bought tickets to virtual screenings of some movies at LA's Outfest, and we love virtual screenings because we can "go to" tons of different festivals! This movie is one we saw via Outfest, and it stars Lynn Chen of Saving Face fame, which is tbh 99% of the reason we wanted to see it. This movie takes place ove...