Movies That Made Us Gay

Our extra special, no holds barred, fight to the death, mega bracket of the Kirsten Dunst filmography has led us here!   We watched Interview With The Vampire (1994) with special guest Darcy Miller and we want some more! This whacked out Grand Guignol masquerading as a parable for a gay family unit has everything - Tom Cruise mincing about in fine silks and brocades, Brad Pitt sleep walking his wa...

They don't make Soap Operas like they used to, and they never quite made them like The Sun Also Sets.   We welcome back to the pod soap-expert Mark Rosenberg to review the 1991 camp classic Soapdish.   Sally Field is at her comedic best against comedy giants Whoopi Goldberg and Kevin Kline and there are major scene stealing moments from icons Carrie Fisher and Cathy Moriarty. The styling of this m...

This era of social distancing would be the perfect time to begin a correspondence course in witchcraft! We watched Bedknobs and Broomsticks with friend of the pod Darren Elms and we Stan Angela Lansbury. It's WWII and Miss Price (Lansbury) gets saddled with some cockney waifs at her English countryside manor.   There will be no bubble and squeak or toad in the hole for these kids - Miss Price only...

I've been cooped up inside this house all day and my diet pill is wearing off.   Not to worry, we're back with more social distancing distractions!   We watched the John Waters classic Hairspray (1988) with MTMUG all star (and extra in the movie) Brian Boskind (not to worry, we recorded pre-quarantine rules in CA)!   Brian fills us in on working with the legend himself John Waters, Debbie Harry oo...

She crashed her van into Jesus - she is NOT OK! We watched Saved! (2004) with special guest Tyler Scheulke and we're still speaking in tongues. This ahead of its time classic deals with issues like de-gayification camps, teen pregnancy and rigging the vote for prom queen.   Is losing your virginity to your gay boyfriend to keep him straight the Christian thing to do? Can the bible be used as a wea...

We can't remember algebra but we can quote this entire movie start to finish.   We watched Clueless (1995) with Brad Liberti and we're totally buggin! We take a deep dive into this quintessential 90's mega hit.   Was the slang made up? Did real 90's kids dress like that?   Is it weird that Cher (Alicia Silverstone) and Josh (Paul Rudd) end up together? The answer is WHO CARES!   This movie is a pe...

Name a more iconic duo than Joe Eszterhas and Paul Verhoeven, we'll wait.   We watched Basic Instinct (1992) with Chip Pope (It Happened In Hollywood Podcast) and we need a drink... hold the ice. The feminist masterminds who went on to bring us Showgirls (we'll get there) started with a little movie that gifted one Miss Sharon Stone upon the world. We talk 90's erotic thrillers, Michael Douglas' d...

Get ready to talk about Truth, Beauty, Freedom and above all else Love because we watched Moulin Rouge! (2001) with Harper and Jonathan from Hawkeyes Podcast. We turn into hardcore theater geeks as we breakdown Satine's (Nicole Kidman) wig journey, Christian's (Ewan McGregor) vocal chops and Zidler's (Jim Broadbent) off his rocker performance.  We relive our early obsession with this movie and whi...

Season 2 is here and we brought out the big guns.   The big, southern, sassy guns.   We watched the super duper gay Steel Magnolias (1989) with special guests Christian Turner and MTMUG all-star Allison Levitan. If you're ready to listen to Pete quote this entire movie in a questionable southern accent you've come to the right place.   Don't worry, we cover the most important aspects of this class...

What Big Game?!   It's Oscar season and the only "bowl" we care about is the punch bowl that Renée spiked cause "thats what Judy would have done."   It's our first Oscar special! We welcome back Joshua Clement to the couch and we're here to regale you with the gayest moments in Oscar history - from Cher's standing-O to Sally's double win (you LIKE me!).   We're also dishing some dirt on this years...

It's our first bonus episode! We dug up our experiment pilot to see if this project would even work.   Spoiler Alert - it worked - so we   dusted off this gem for your listening pleasure.   We watched Cruel Intentions from 1999 and we're still obsessed with Ryan Phillippe's buns.   Sarah Michelle Gellar is serving up some fierce be-otch realness and we discuss the legend of production hiding Reese...

We made it through a whole season of gay as hell movies and our finale is a doozy!   We're joined by the very funny Braden Davis so watch the 1980 classic Blue Lagoon.   You guys, this movie is bananas!   If you're not familiar with this movie - I'll sum it up in 2 words: Full. Frontal. Two beautiful teens are marooned on a tropical island and much male nudity ensues.   We tell tales of watching t...

Our Christmas series continues as we welcome good friend Mitch Ralston to watch the Dolly Parton classic A Smokey Mountain Christmas. Dolly plays a Country star escaping to the Smokies to spend Christmas with nothing but her guitar and some squirrel stew but a ragtag group of squatting orphans, the horny local sheriff and a mountain witch have other plans. Along the way Dolly runs afoul of Lee Maj...

It's our first official holiday series and we watched Black Christmas (1974) with the multi-talented Michael Varrati.   Sorority girls get hassled with obscene phone calls and start dropping like flies.   Jess (Olivia Hussey) has problems of her own - her high strung boyfriend Peter (Keir Dullea) at the top of the list.   Horny Barb (Margot Kidder) and mousy Phyl (Andrea Martin) round out the soro...

It's a sequel to a movie based on a 70's TV show; We sat down with #friendofthepod Lola Chee and watched Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle! If you watched these movies and tried to model your style after Drew Barrymore - you're gay now. Demi Moore was a 40 year old mother of three when she made this and looks better than me on my best day in my 20s. If you love early 2000's fashion, HIGH Camp and Be...

Do you love superhero movies but need more glamour? We've got the solution - we watched Supergirl (1984) with Brian Boskind and we're already shopping for abandoned amusement parks.   Supergirl (Helen Slater) gets whisked away to Earth and is bedeviled by wicked witch Selena (Faye Dunaway) her henchwoman Bianca (Brenda Vaccaro) and runner up in the Severus Snape lookalike contest Nigel (Peter Cook...

Sister Mary Clarence - like Clarence Williams III from the Mod Squad?   Fellow film maniac Joshua Clement dropped in to watch Sister Act (1992) and we're still practicing the choreo (give 'em a little shoulder action).   We know Dolores Van Cartier is supposed to be tacky but what we wouldn't give for a real purple mink - even if it belonged to someone else's wife! Whoopi conducted these little ol...

Nothing says LGBT Ally like a straight-cis-white-male writing a dialogue for a lesbian.   We're joined by #friendofthepod Amber Shaw to watch Chasing Amy (1997) and we have some thoughts. Does this quaint tale of sexual politics in the mid 90's hold up to todays "woke" standards?   It does not.   Is naming your two male leads after Catcher In The Rye characters pretentious? Possibly. Some of the j...

Paul Rudd is forever BAE, even when he's playing a dull gay kindergarten teacher.   We're joined by MTMUG All Star Michael Morgan to watch The Object Of My Affection (1998).   Bored social worker Nina (Jennifer Aniston) falls for her equally boring GBF George (Rudd).   Nina gets knocked up by her boring boyfriend but wants to raise the baby with George cause she's still thirsty for that forbidden...

Its Rebel Without A Cause meets The Sound Of Music.  We're joined by Jacob Randall (Captain Podcast) to watch the hidden gem of 1980's dance movies Girls Just Want To Have Fun (1985).  Janey (Sarah Jessica Parker) mistakes gymnastics for dancing, Lynne (Helen Hunt) is cool best friend goals and Jeff (Lee Montgomery) is also in this movie.  We discuss the origins of Dance TV and get to the bottom o...

Horror movies don't get any gayer than this.   We welcome Bryn Thomas (Horse And Horn) to the show to watch the quintessential homoerotic slasher A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge (1985).   What can be said about this iconic gay masterpiece that hasn't already been said?   Mark Patton shrieks her way into the history books as the FIRST Male Scream Queen. Freddy (Robert Englund) proves...

Love isn't the only thing that never dies, bad English accents are forever.   We sat down with Sammy Smart (Too Scary; Didn't Watch) to watch Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992).   A horror movie filled to the brim with corseted beauties, hunky heroes and titillating semi-nudity - It's almost as if this movie were made for preteen gay boys to watch under the cover of night.   We choose our favorite Holly...

It's been 300 years, right down to the day… and we're finally getting around to watching Hocus Pocus (1993). We sat down with #friendofthepod Allison Levitan to talk about this high-camp fantasy starring our Queen Bette Midler.   This movie has united a generation of Millenials through campy songs, Hot Topic fashion and pre-Drag Race era makeup contouring. Gays and straight (girls) alike unite thr...

Hello boys and ghouls.  It's October and that means spooky movies!  We're joined by Ashley & Lauren from Keep it Weird (@keepitweirdcast) for a crossover special extravaganza!!  We watched The Witches (1990) and Anjelica Huston is our new idol.  Roald Dahl's tale of Real witches and the quest to exterminate the children of England by transforming them into mice has got us thinking - maybe these la...

We took our show on the road and met up with hometown friends Jessica Granger and Amy Fox to review the 1999 Drew Barrymore classic Never Been Kissed.  From the wilds of Montana we talk about the first ever Flower Films production and its impact on the gayification of our two guests.  Like Clueless before it, this film is peppered with future has-beens and a couple of also-rans but it bears the di...