Queer Girl Film Club

An unexpected return! We promised you we had six episodes of varied queer girl cinema this season and it turns out we actually have SEVEN! Here’s your unexpected bonus episode, kicking off the season with Netflix’s pastel explosion, the high school revenge comedy-drama Do Revenge (2022). Join us to talk about Alice’s specialist subject, the mean girl film: indeed, this episode has Alice laying out...

You’ve been sending in your requests for films for us to cover, and amazingly one of the most popular doesn’t have a visible queer woman in it! But it does have FOOTBALL, unconvincing heterosexuality crowbarred into the plot, and so many sports bras. It could only be all-time classic, Bend It Like Beckham (2002)! Feeling fresh and delighted after England won Euro 2022, Queer Girl Film Club are her...

Take a journey back in time to the bad old days when being gay was a terrible thing, when gossips ruined lives and livelihoods, and when forgetting to include the second act of your film wasn’t an impediment to releasing it. We’re forcing Alice to once again relive her memories of being a teacher as the team discuss The Children’s Hour (1961). Join Alice, Holly and Georgia as they look at the Hays...

This week Georgia had one request: for Holly and Alice to explain to her why they think Mulholland Drive (2001) is good and what the hell is going on… quite the ask when we are talking about the David Lynch classic, a film which defies classification, logic and rational thought. Join the swirling madness as the team talk about non-chronological film structures, Hollywood intrigue, boobs, Susan Son...

Things got a bit heated this week as the team watched Cannes Palme d’Or winner, the THREE HOUR classic/worst film ever, Blue Is The Warmest Colour. Come and listen as Alice she-hulks out about how much she hates it, Holly defends long naturalistic French films, and Georgia admirably acts as the voice of moderation. The team get into the director’s general shittiness, the differences between the fi...

It’s special guest time! Alice, Holly and Georgia are joined by poet Benjamina Albanese to talk about 1999 Canadian comedy-drama Better Than Chocolate.  When Kim and Maggie meet, neither knows that within 48 hours they will be living together, alongside Maggie’s mum and brother. And the gay book shop is facing disaster as customs have impounded their books. Also Judy is having woman trouble and pa...

Boobs. Nun rules. Scandalous behaviour from a film which has gotten some Catholics out on the streets in protest. Join Alice, Georgia, Holly and special guest, Showgirls-superfan and Verhoeven-expert Kat, to discuss the wild journey through 17th century Italy that is Benedetta (2021). Out in cinemas now, so our first ten minutes (ish) are spoiler-free! CN: Brief mention of self harm, homophobia, s...

Welcome back! Season 2 is here and we’re kicking off with the greatest spy film of the c21st (citation needed): D.E.B.S. (2004)! Our super-spies Amy, Max, Dominique and Jill try to stop master criminal Lucy Diamond, the world’s most dangerous criminal who might just awaken something in one of the D.E.B.S… Join Alice, Georgia and Holly as they hop on the wild rollercoaster which is this super-imagi...

Season 2 starts Tuesday 12 April. Come listen to Alice, Georgia and Holly talking about lesbian, bi and queer girl cinema, and find out if this season is the one where one of us goes evil...

Merry Christmas and a happy new year, it’s Carol (2015) time. Tell your friends, tell your family, tell Harold they’re lesbians! Cate Blanchett is here to seduce Rooney Mara through the medium of glances, glove lunches and glamour. 1950s repression never looked so gorgeous but does Carol break your heart or leave you cold? It’s one of the queer cinema classics, and Holly, Georgia and Alice are her...

Betrayal! Intrigue! Class! Colonialism! Dirty dirty books! The most successful Korean film in the West before Parasite came along! It’s time to watch The Handmaiden, a sumptuous, stylish, erotic adaptation of Sarah Waters’ Fingersmith set in a Korea occupied by Japan. Join Holly, Alice and Georgia as we discuss The Handmaiden in all it’s funny, poignant and poetic glory. We normally advise you wat...

The straightest film ever made about lesbians? Is it is even about lesbians or just it just have lesbians in it? Are these lesbians even interested in women?! Alice was so excited when she first heard there was going to be a cheesy romantic drama starring Katherine Heigl but with lesbians in it. Finally, queer girl would get the same trashy nonsense as the straights! But she was destined to be dis...

It’s heist time as Gina Gershon and Jennifer Tilly are gay, do crime in Bound (1996)! Noir-ish tension, an iconic sex scene, and a whole load of domestic chores, it’s the Wachowski Sisters’ debut. Join Georgia, Alice and Holly for some shameless lusting, some joyful celebration of scheming, and a thorough appreciation of the film’s accurate depiction of just how hard it is to run up multiple fligh...

But I'm A Cheerleader! The iconic duo of Natasha Lyonne and Clea Duvall. Plus a whole bunch of other faces (Melanie Lynskey! RuPaul! Rufio from Hook?!?!). The story of cheerleader who thinks she's straight but gets sent to a gay conversion camp anyway because her family and friends can see something in her which she herself can't see... yet. Why is this film so iconic? Is extreme ca...

Ammonite (2020)! Kate Winslet is fossil-finding legend Mary Anning. Saoirse Ronan is Charlotte Murchison, sad rich lady who is left in Mary Anning's care by her snooty husband. Romance blossoms, sort of.  Is it good or just gay? Were queer girls allowed to do dialogue before 1900 or was it all staring? Portrait of a Fossil on Fire or does it work on its own merits? Join Alice, Georgia and Hol...