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Send us Fan Mail There was a boy....a very strange enchanted boy, who wandered so far off on a tangent about Kylie Minogue, that we had to turn our Moulin Rouge Episode into a BONUS Patreon WATCH PARTY! Joined by our Rebel Patreons and Facebook Viewers, the Rebel Camp enjoyed our monthly "Rebels with their Exe's Netflix Account!" Livestream Watch Party, to continue the obsession and...

Send us Fan Mail "You can't stop to breathe!" It's Musical May, and nothing says "Big, Blonde, and Beautiful" like Carlotta, Bear Sailor Moon, and I losing our absolute minds like the musical adaptation of Hairspray (2007) Is It Brains? Is it Brawns? No! It's Michelle God Damned Pha-Fei-Fur! Hairspray (2007) Written by John Waters and Leslie Dixon (Screenplay), a...

Send us Fan Mail "Paaay your Biiiiiiills!!" It's Musical May, and what better film to start us off than a Bohemian Musical about communities suffering through a serious housing crisis while an invisible virus rages through the world. ....La vie Boheme... Chad, PJ, and I watched the musical adaptation of RENT (2005) and we discuss if our opinions watching as teenagers changed that mu...

Send us Fan Mail You know, when we watched  "But I'm a Cheerleader," Rupal and the vinyl-covered everything made this deeply oppressive and very real problem in the lgbtq2ia+ community a lot less heart-wrenching... By your poll votes, The Rebel Crew and I (sans PJ) watched "Boy Erased" The 2018 film based on the memoirs of a gay man who was put into conversion therapy by h...

Send us Fan Mail There’s a lot of hours that go into a recording session and sometimes things don't make it into the podcast but are too good to leave out so welcome to Rebel without a Closet: The Cutting Room Floor! Support the show Thank you all for an incredible 5 Seasons! Our entire library is now available on all streaming platforms. Share and Enjoy! Follow the Rebels: Stefan: @sjmaroni...

Send us Fan Mail What happens when you're a small-town girl, living in a lonely world? You take the midnight train going ANYWHERE! PJ and I watched Boy Meets Girl (2014) with very special Guest Jacklynne Hyde! The three of us take a red pen at this movie's old college try at navigating a trans teen's lived experience, created from the mind of a cis white male. ...We have opinions! B...

Send us Fan Mail If you ever thought to yourself, "I wish "Love Simon" had an overachieving older brother with better friends who could have handled this a lot better" Then look no further!   We watched Alex Strangelove (2018) The YA coming of age story about a mature, supportive, sex-positive girlfriend who gets dragged through this movie while her dork boyfriend stumbles thro...

Send us Fan Mail Removing ourselves from Garbage Fire March, Chad, PJ and I review a movie that's title can also best describe our Co-Hosts! Handsome Devil (2016) asks the question "Wait, I can be a queer outcast AND a star athlete??" Step aside Troy Bolton, Eat a dick Glee, we can have it all! Handsome Devil (2016) Written and Directed by John Butler, Staring  Fionn O'Shea, An...

Send us Fan Mail Here at RWACpod we love to take out our frustrations on these monstrosities.  Your Mulligans, your Stonewalls, but this.... this is next level. Stonewall was deeply misguided. Mulligans was a good idea gone wrong. THIS....this is a story about a guy named Brad.... In what could arguably be the worst acted film we've ever seen, PJ and I try to understand why Bear did this to u...

Send us Fan Mail A Movie so terrible, it changed the way we recorded. For the first time in this podcast's history, I had to postpone a recording. Ten Minutes in, over 30 notes, 5 voice messages, and an IMDb spiral, I couldn't bring myself to press play. So we took a breath, gave it some time, and came back to it, for our first-ever live reaction Audience Watch Along! Mulligans (2008) Wr...

Send us Fan Mail We didn't choose the pageant life. The pageant life chose us. Carlotta, Chad and PJ join me in what can only be described as our most chaotic episode to date. Chosen through our audience poll, we cry laugh in terrible Minnesotan accents through a review of the 1999 film Drop Dead Gorgeous . Drop Dead Gorgeous (1999) Written by Lona Williams and Directed by Michael Patrick Jan...

Send us Fan Mail How do you interpret a film that is so heavy handedly spoon-feeding you metaphors, while still staying mind-numbingly confusing? In what could be our shortest review to a movie that was equal parts 90's as it was Canadian Independent,  Bear Sailor Moon, Carlotta and I try to decipher this mess. From bad acting to bi cuckolding, we wonder who gave awards to the strangest movie...

Send us Fan Mail Pass the Tissues and grab the towels because our Cold Frozen Hearts are melting and our Lonely Loins are flooding.  Stuart, Chad and Bear Sailor Moon sat with me as we discussed the 2014 Foreign Queer Romance "The Way He Looks" ...and we looked!! From Showers to stolen kisses we dive deep and rip into a poor guy somewhere in Innisfil we've never met. Sorry ...I wann...

Send us Fan Mail Congratulations to Anna Kendrick for coming out of this unscathed! A problematic product of it's time, CAMP is a LOT to take in. Actual text message from myself to Co-Host PJ ".... I cannot believe I'm sitting through a teen camp musical. I want to punch my laptop" Did I come around and like it by the end?? Listen to find out! CAMP (2003) Written and Directed b...

Send us Fan Mail I'm on the edge! Joined by Chad and PJ, we come full circle from our Season one Premier with the 1998 teen coming of age story "Edge of Seventeen." Fun fact! Todd Stephens also Wrote "Another Gay Movie." How do we feel about this movie compared to that one? We definitely have thoughts! A Special thanks goes out our "Adolescent" correspondent, our...

Send us Fan Mail SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT! This weekend is our 25th Episode! We've reviewed 24 Movies, with over 29 hours of content put out there to you! And trust me with 29 hours of content to you, there's about 60 hours unaccounted for! Host Stefan @sjmaroni talks with good friends and Stockholm captives, Carlotta, Chad, PJ and Stuart, to recap the 25 episodes, chat about our beauties an...

Send us Fan Mail What is love?! baby don't hurt me.  In this weeks episode we discuss the 2018 teen coming of age/coming out/comedy/romance "Love Simon"  As the designated jaded hosts of the podcast, it was up to Stuart and I to discuss our feelings about what makes this movie work, and what doesn't. Did we love it? Did we hate it? Were we bitterly jealous of all the iced coffe...

Send us Fan Mail Finishing up our very special RWAC - STUCK AT HOME FOR THE HOLIGAYS! In this weeks episode we discuss the 1944 Comedy Drama "Meet me In St Louis" Carlotta and Stuart join my utter delight watching Judy Garland be an icon for over 2 hours.  Meet me in St Lousis (2020), Directed by Vincent Minnelli and written by  Irving Brecher, starring Judy Garland and Margaret O'B...

Send us Fan Mail It's our very special RWAC - STUCK AT HOME FOR THE HOLIGAYS! In this weeks episode we discuss the 2020 Holiday Romantic Comedy "The Christmas Setup" **SPOILERS THROUGHOUT!** Was this the most polarizing episode yet?? Did Lifetime just replace a female lead? Are we all bitter cat ladies who give up on love? Let's find out! The Christmas Setup (2020), Directed by...

Send us Fan Mail Seasons Greetings! It's our very special RWAC - STUCK AT HOME FOR THE HOLIGAYS! In this weeks episode we discuss the 2009 Holiday Romantic Comedy "Make the Yuletide Gay" **SPOILERS THROUGHOUT!** Is this the Queer Holiday Classic we've been waiting for?! ...HAHAHAHAHAHA.....HAHAHAHAHAHAH....Listen to find out! Make the Yuletide Gay (2009), Directed and written b...

Send us Fan Mail Nothing Summarizes 1995 film "Jeffrey" better than a train wreck that must have put such a strain  on Patrick Stewarts back, for literally CARRYING this movie from start to finish. Side Note: The Beginning starts with a brief history lesson on HIV/AIDS, followed by The Episode, next Wednesdays bonus content will dive deeper. Jeffrey, Directed by Christopher Ashley and Wr...

Send us Fan Mail In this weeks episode we discuss both the  2020 Netflix remake of the "Boys in the Band" Originally an off Broadway show in the late 60's turned film release, turned Broadway revival, THEN remake....both film depict a group of gay men dealing with personal dramas during a Birthday Party in a life before the AIDS crisis. Our Hosts discuss the actors portrayals of the...

Send us Fan Mail There’s a lot of hours that go into a recording session and sometimes things don't make it into the podcast but are too good to leave out so welcome to Rebel without a Closet: The Cutting Room Floor! Here it is!! We reference it throughout the podcast, get ready for Stuarts dissertation of women in Hollywood!    RWACpod on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/rwacpod Fol...

Send us Fan Mail SEMPRE VIVE! LIVE FOREVER! It's Watch Along time with our regular band of catty queens as we discuss the 1992 film Death Becomes Her! Would Chad take the potion?  Can PJ see her ass? Has Stuart stocked his cupboards with frosting? Does Joey remember where he parked the car? We dive deep and cut into me like a bitch on this re-recording, that to US seems like it took forever t...

Send us Fan Mail There’s a lot of hours that go into a recording session and sometimes things don't make it into the podcast but are too good to leave out so welcome to Rebel without a Closet: The Cutting Room Floor! Continuing my conversation with Allysin Chaynes ( @allysinchaynes ) we discuss their drag, how Rocky Horror Plays into that aesthetic, and plans for the future audience viewings...