Archive for December, 2011

I've Heard the Mermaids Singing

Our Rating: ★★★☆☆
L Factor: Lesbian Film
Short Take: Polly gets a job in an art gallery, developing a crush on the owner

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Linda Linda Linda

Our Rating: ★★★★☆
L Factor: Girl Power
Short Take: Four female high school friends make a memorable rock band and a feminist reality.

Young Blades

Our Rating: ★★★☆☆
L Factor: Gender Bender
Short Take: Takeoff on the classic Three Musketeers story.

Young Americans

Our Rating: ★★★☆☆
L Factor: Gender Bender
Short Take: A spinoff of teen show Dawson’s Creek. Stars Katherine Moennig as a girl who passes as a guy.

Women's Private Parts

Our Rating: ★★★★☆
L Factor: Major lesbian content
Short Take: Women in Hong Kong talk openly in interviews about sex, sexuality and relationships.

Women Affair

Our Rating: ★☆☆☆☆
L Factor: Major lesbian content
Short Take: A Nigerian mother forbids her daughter from seeing men, so she becomes a lesbian.

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The War Widow

Our Rating: ★★★½☆
L Factor: Lesbian Film
Short Take: Amy’s husband is away fighting in World War I when she meets Jenny. She must eventually choose between her husband and the woman she loves.

Uber Writers: From the Net to the Page

Our Rating: ★★★★☆
L Factor: Lesbian TV Show
Short Take: Interview with five major ‘Xena’ fan fiction writers who have also published lesbian fiction in book form.

Twenty Something Taipei

Our Rating: ★★½☆☆
L Factor: Major lesbian characters
Short Take: The world of hip young club hoppers in Taipei. The DJ and her girlfriend become Taiwan’s first lesbian couple to get married.

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The Thistle Hotel

Our Rating: ★★★★☆
L Factor: Lesbian Short Film
Short Take: Based on Katherine Mansfield’s 1907 short story. Two independent women find one another in 1915 San Francisco.