Movies That Made Us Gay

"We are the weirdos, mister." We call on the four corners with TCM Slumberground's Matthew Ownby, and watched the Craft. As youngins we had this movie checked out more than Justin Theroux during grey sweatpants season.   Why do all young gays want to be witches? How do these teenage girls keep getting away with all these dress code violations? Why is Robin Tunney wearing a wig? We unpack all these...

It's the apocalypse, and lets go to the mall! We watched Night of the Comet with returning guest Rudy Bleu. When a mysterious comet whipes out most of the life on Earth two valley girls Reggie and Sam find Los Angeles all to themsleves. In this clever blend of horror, sci-fi, comedy these sisters kick butt, ride motorcyles, play videogames, take over an abandoned radio station, shoot uzis, and the...

What do you say to 90 minutes of primo late-'70s Sam Elliot parading around in short-shorts and being an all-around macho stud?  We say "Gimme, gimme, gimme!"  We watched Lifeguard (1976) with the amazing Love Connie and we're trying to grow out our mustaches by sheer will power. Sam Elliot plays career lifeguard Rick and he's our hero.  He's got a swinging bachelor pad, a sweet car and pretty muc...

"Life is like the surf, so give yourself away like the sea."  We watched Y tu mamá también (2001) with our friend Sandra Espinoza and we're packing the station wagon for a roadtrip to Boca del Cielo.  Time is a hell of a concept and man did it do a number on us when we re-watched this classic of Mexican cinema.  As young lads first introduced to this film, we were struck by the beauty of its cast,...

"It's not natural, is it? A girl at her age being into Mama Cass." We watched the 1996 British film Beautiful Thing with Jesse Krempel from Cult Cinema Circle. As one of the most beloved "gay" movies from the 1990s, Beautiful Thing always feels a little more special than a traditonal "coming out" story. Set around a tower block South-London apartment building  we follow Jamie (Glen Berry) and his...

"My Beast! My Beast! Answer me, my Beast! Answer me, my Beast!" We watched the insanely beautiful 1946 Jean Cocteau film La Belle et la Bête, and excuse us as we glide down a windy hallway like were in the It's All Coming Back Me Now video. There's wouldn't be the 1991 Disney animated movie, or power ballad music videos, if it weren't for Cocteau's flamboyant take on the ye old 1757 French fairy t...

"If you were trapped in Biosphere 2 for three years, who would you bring: Time Magazine's Woman of the Year or Playboy's Playmate of the Year?" We watched our favorite 90s romantic comedy   The Truth About Cats and Dogs with our friend Oscar Montoya from HBO Max's Minx.   This 90s catfish story by the way of Cyrano de Bergerac is super charming, and classic 'Best Friend Cinema'. Is there anything...

"Hell is a teenage girl." We talk about the Karyn Kusama cult horror comedy Jennifer's Body this week with our bestie Lauren Ogle from Keep it Weird, and we can't help but be lesbigay for Megan Fox. As Jennifer Check, the demon possesed boy killer who chows down on the patriarchy, Fox has never been more in her element. The Diablo Cody penned script was sorely overlooked when it came out in 2009,...

Not all girls want to play with dolls. It's been 27 years since Todd Solondz's Welcome to the Dollhouse, and we're here to tell you that it's still savage AF. Seth Subin from @jerkofalltrades joins us again to discuss this  pitch black coming-of- age comedy, and we really just want to give Dawn Wiener a hug and tell her it's all going to be alright.   We get into the 90s icon that is Heather Matar...

Girl power takes over this week on MTMUG, and we had our friend Courtney Barriger over to watch Spice World (1997). This camp classic Hard Days Night take on the 90s girl group phenomenon "The Spice Girls" took us all back. Ginger, Scary, Baby, Sporty, and Posh. We love all of these empowered women, and their movie is an out of control good time. Name another film that   has an alien encounter, a...

"I believe I have the first sentence." We watched The Hours (2002) with MTMUG SuperStar Jackson Cooper and we are ready to get sad!  Can you believe this titan of gayness of 20 years old?  The sheer star power of Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman and Julianne Moore is enough to power all of West Hollywood for a month! We talk about where we were when we realized this wasn't just a movie about glamourous...

"I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way." We watch Who Framed Roger Rabbit with the Queen of all nerds herself, Dax Exclamationpoint and things are about to get real nerdy up in here.  This movie was the original Multiverse of Madness for kids in the '80s and '90s.  We collectively lost our tiny minds when we saw the titans of Disney and Warner Brothers together on screen for the first time! Jessica...

Let's Party! We watched one of the gayest action movies to come out of the 1980s Commando with our TCM friends Ben Cheaves and Millie De Chirico. Y'all this movie is insane, and doesn't get nearly enough credit for making Arnold Schwarzenegger the movie star he is today. Arnold plays an ex-special ops soldier living in the woods with his daughter played by Samantha from Who's the Boss, Alyssa Mila...

"I always wanted to be a Tenenbaum, you know?"  We watched The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) with our friend Donovan Marcotte and we're all of us especially *not* a genius. This "quirky" family dramedy is peak Wes Anderson and quote possibly his best film.  Fight us.  We all laugh a little too nervously as Gene Hackman's Royal Tenenbaum eviscerates with words everyone in his path - even his children and...

"Give my daughter the shot!" We watched the James L. Brooks movie Terms of Endearment with the writer/director of Jawbreaker Darren Stein, and we are here to remind you that it's one of the best films to come out of the 1980s. This movie's biggest fans are in the gay community, and can anyone read a queen to filth like Aurora Greenway? "You are not special enough to overcome a bad marriage." And n...

Silencio!  We watched Mulholland Drive (2001) with our friend Zoë Secrest and we're still pretty confused. This Hollywood dreamscape from director David Lynch has everything - parking lot hags, amnesiacs in shake-and-go wigs, and Justin Theroux in tinted glasses.  We discuss "the secret of Mulholland Drive" and attempt to dissect the mystery behind this puzzlebox of a film.  Spoiler alert - we sti...

"Does anybody here know how many times I had to watch 'Funny Lady'?" We watched In & Out (1997) with our friend Chris (@golden_girls_posters) and Hot damn, what a faboulous window treatment... wait that was a trick! We still have questions about the premise, but you can't beat this cast with a stick.  Kevin Kline nails it as an in the closet (?) high school teacher who gets outed by a famous forme...

"L.A is like… nowhere. Everyone who lives here is lost." We put some gas in the VCR this week to talk about the Gregg Araki film   Nowhere with guest Seth Shubin @jerkofalltrades. Described in the marketing as "90210 was on Acid" this cast is a who's who of up and coming Hollywood. With early appearances by Ryan Phillippe, Heather Graham, Scott Caan, Mena Suvari, Denise Richards, as well as Araki...

We made it to episode 150, and we finally got to the long awaited "Heterosexual Movie by Gregg Araki", The Doom Generation with our friend Rudy Bleu. The anti-Clueless, this movie was every alternative young person's bible. Following two troubled teen lovers (James Duval and  Rose McGowan)  who pick up a mysterious drifter named Xavier (Jonathan Schaech) and run wild through the slums of the San F...

What do you little maniacs want to do first?   We're not just talking candle wax on the nipples or witchcraft, or chip, dips, chain n whips, we're talking about the renegade John Hughes movie "Weird Science" (1985) with our favorite straight brother Dylan Hay-Chapman. Kelly LaBrock is insanely fierce as Lisa, the Marry Poppins for teenage boys. The gays want to be her, and the straights well you k...

In space no one call hear you scream yas queen! We watched the science fiction monolith 'Alien' directed by Ridley Scott on the podcast, and if you're not empowered by feminist icon Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) we'll blow you out of the airlock.   With guest Drew Stanley @nameverb we talk about Ripley, the rest of the Nostromo Crew (humm Daddy Tom Skerritt), and yes the titular Alien aka Xenopo...

  We finally got the Mike Nichols feminist classic "Working Girl", and like its lead heroine Tess we have got a head for business, and a bod for sin   We are joined by our good friend, and fellow working girl Moranne Klassen @mokee to discuss the overall influences and empowerment the film delivered to a 1980s audience. A career making lead performance by Melanie Griffith, a truly inspiring song b...

"Slick your hair and wear your buckle shoes… And all that jazz."   We watched the 2002 Rob Marshall directed musical 'Chicago' with our buddy Pickens Barringer, and all a sudden we are overcome with belting THAT JAZZZ while dancing to Bob Fosse choreo. Twenty years later it's still one of the best stage to screen musicals ever. We talk about the casting perfection going on here. That Oscar was in...

"Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death!"  We watched Auntie Mame (1958) with our friend Darren Elms and someone get us a Dr. Pepper!  There's just something about a glamorous woman of a certain age that gay boys just gravitate towards. We all want to be as fabulous as Auntie Mame someday, even though we may be more like Agnes Gooch.  Rosalind Russel's iconic performance as...

"It's like MTV but with an edge." We watched Reality Bites (1994) directed by Ben Stiller and we're gonna go grab a couple of Big Gulps.   We're back with the winner of our Janeane Garofalo mini challenge and we're jumping in the way-back machine to take a trip to the 90's!   Generation X, irony-loving, thrift store-shopping, 70's sitcom-quoting slackers abound in this comic coming of age story. R...