The Bi-Panic Room

Welcome to The Bi-Panic Room, a bi-monthly podcast exploring the films that trigger bisexual panic, a.k.a “bi-panic”. Each episode is split into three parts: The Bicon: where we discuss one film positively dripping with bi-panic energy that we all agree has earned its place in the bi-panic room. Bi-panic energy of the week (BPE of the Week): this section is not confined to film and your hosts will...

You can’t fight the moonlight - or the bi-panic energy dripping from this episode’s pick - as we usher in the new year with Lil and the gals at Coyote Ugly. Maria Bello owns the titular bar in this biconic naughties film that stars Piper Perabo as the girl moving to the big city to chase her songwriting dreams.  Tyra Banks, Bridget Moynahan, Melanie Lynskey and Adam Garcia round out a supporting c...

On the 12th day of Christmas your bi loves give to you… the 12th episode of the Bi-Panic Room, wrapped up in a pretty, red bow! Join the gang as they discuss a Christmas classic: The Family Stone, which features typical festive topics such as metastatic cancer, familial bullying and partner swapping. The stellar ensemble boasts Diane Keaton, Rachel McAdams, Dermot Mulroney, an unhinged Sarah Jessi...

The millennium…again? No you’re not seeing double. You’re seeing 007.  Pierce Brosnan’s third outing as James Bond saw us into the early noughties with a hot, action-packed, surprisingly feminist feature that left many shaken, and stirred. Forget the questionable: accents, science and character names (looking at you, Christmas) and stay for the jet skis, crisp linen suits and antique torture devic...

Ah the millennium. The perfect backdrop for this week’s biconic heist movie and, coincidentally, the age gap between its two stars, Sean Connery and HRH Catherine Zeta-Jones. Yes, Jon Amiel’s 1999 film Entrapment features that scene, spawning an entire generation of bisexuals with an unrealistic expectation of: Their own flexibility The manners of older men Their natural ability to play both sides...

What's your favourite bi-panic movie? You just know a film is biconic when it spawns several franchises and an entire porn sub-category. Wes Craven’s 1996 meta-horror-spoof Scream is the perfect way to celebrate our second Halloween special - on Halloween no less! - and reminisce about the days when a hot teenage boy with shark eyes could sex shame his recently bereaved girlfriend and tube TVs wer...

It’s bi boo time! In our first of two halloween specials, the gang goes full lesbi-gay for Diablo Cody’s 2009 sleeper hit, Jennifer’s Body . It may have been a decade ahead of its time but the indie emo songs and guyliner make it a true classic of the late noughties. In case you weren’t sure whether the hosts of this podcast were actually teenagers during this time, this episode offers definitive...

Dinosaur eats man. Woman inherits the earth. And everything about this movie makes you bi. This week: Steven Spielberg’s 1993 classic, Jurassic Park , which, to half the gang, is a movie about a rich old man going to extraordinary lengths to stop his grandchildren from inheriting his fortune. Time to take off your sunglasses (a la Laura Dern), tighten your Sam Neil neckerchiefs and get ready for a...

Get ready, guys, that must be Nigel with the Brie! In this episode, the gang covers the 1999 cinematic masterpiece 10 Things I Hate About You , starring Julia Stiles, Heath Ledger, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Larisa Oleynik in a loose adaptation of Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew . In true biconic fashion, there are two divided camps on who to fancy. White shirt or black shirt? They’re just so...

Brace yourself LGBTQ+ film fans, and gird your loins for the first deeply problematic addition to the Bi-Panic Room. For three of your hosts, Cruel Intentions taught us a fundamental truth about life: blondes are pious angels and brunettes are sexually promiscuous sociopaths who blaspheme by storing recreational narcotics in their crucifix necklaces. Or something like that. Your hosts question the...

Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock left a lasting impression on a whole generation of teens with buzzcuts and frilly socks. Of course we were always going to discuss the classic 90s film Speed in great detai...as well as Keanu’s arms, Sandy’s legs, and Jeff Daniels’s soft boy energy. Charlotte teaches the rest of the gang about the river of ham and Harry’s wildcard pick prompts an impassioned discuss...

This is the bisexual mothership: the film that turned the majority of the gang bi. Stephen Sommers’s 1999 masterpiece: The Mummy . Rachel Weisz, Brendan Fraser, Arnold Vosloo, Patricia Velasquez & Oded Fehr - need we say more? Sure, we will. Gold body paint, flesh eating scarabs, 90s pencil eyebrows, this one’s got it all. Attempts at objectivity about this movie are futile, so get ready for w...

The late naughties version of The Parent Trap (1998) throws up all kinds of questions for the gang: Does Lindsay Lohan contractually mandate to always play more than one person? Is Dennis Quaid’s chest hair responsible for an entire’s generation daddy fetish? Has anyone ever been more unhinged and gorgeous than Natasha Richardson in this movie? And is Meredith really a villain or a secret feminist...

In our inaugural episode we talk about the film that started it all: David Fincher’s timeless masterpiece Panic Room . Tessa grudgingly acknowledges Jared Leto’s bisexual vibe, Harry argues for bisexuals against electricity, Charlotte sees the whole thing as a metaphor for the queer experience and Grace christens Academy Award winner Forest Whitaker with an affectionate nickname that rhymes with s...