Bodybuilding! Magical realism! Lesbians! When Chekhov’s gun is actually a gun! Come along and join the appreciation of the gun show (Katy O’Brien’s arms) with Queer Girl Film Club as we talk Love Lies Bleeding (2024). Enjoy the gang’s discussions and digressions about the year’s most hyped queer girl film, during which we talk about the queerness o…

Queer Girl Film Club springing into action to bring you the latest in queer girl cinema releases? Kind of. We would have had this out last week, but alas, G has become the second member of the pod to get concussion in the last six months! But the CT scans are done and the results are in: QGFC have the brainpower to talk about Drive Away Dolls (2024…

This week we’re doing one of, if not the, most requested films - Disobedience (2017). We did say it was a Rachel Weiss kind of season, didn’t we? We’ve got a special guest, Naomi, to give us some helpful insights into Jewish traditions and life for queer Jewish people, although she also eloquently explains how there are many different ways to be Je…

Tell your friends, there’s a new episode of Queer Girl Film Club! We are talking friendship a lot in this week’s episode as we discuss the Netflix 2020 release, The Half Of It. Only the second film from director/writer Alice Wu (something Holly in particular is outraged by, more Alice Wu films now!), this queer smalltown America take on Cyrano de B…

It’s a fractious episode for Queer Girl Film Club this week, be prepared for disagreements, personal attacks and shouting over Fucking Åmål/Show Me Love (1998), a big hit in Sweden which isn’t such a big hit for some of the pod. Listen as the gang talk telephone etiquette, kissing girls as a dare and whether naturalistic film-making is good or not.…

Merry Christmas listeners, and why not listen to some festive film chat from Queer Girl Film Club! There might be a little disagreement as to whether Rent (2005) is a Christmas film or not, but there’s certainly some snow and singing to be had, and the QGFC gang are keeping up our Christmas traditions, like bringing up those Netflix Vanessa Hudgens…

It’s time for Holly’s eighteenth century history podcast! Oh wait, no, this is a Queer Girl Film Club episode about Oscar winning* slice of genius The Favourite (2018). But it does contain quite a bit of Holly talking about the actual history, so we hope that’s to your liking. There’s also plenty of space for rhapsodising Olivia Colman’s incredible…

We are back for season 4 of Queer Girl Film Club! And why not start with something classic: the British romcom! Journey with us to a simpler time (2005) while we talk about Imagine Me And You. Everyone’s posh, everyone’s cringe and there’s only eight people in the whole of London, but Alice, G and Holly are happy to take a trip to this much-rewatch…

Halloween films aren’t for the faint hearted, and we’re definitely recommending listeners take a look at what might be our longest list of content warnings below before they jump into The Perfection (2018). However, if you are willing to brave all of that, this is an interesting, if unsuccessful at times, film which gives the QGFC crew much to love…

It’s a special episode where we decided to try and different medium and invite some friends over! Nearly film length, but not a film, San Junipero is the iconic queer girl episode of Black Mirror, and to help us unpick this TV classic we invited Amber and Joyce from Gay Actually podcast to talk about it. From the symbolism of the ocean to the on-th…

Hello all! It’s been a while and now we are back with an episode a Queer BAIT Film Club where we watch a film which isn’t gay enough and try to work out why a perfectly good (or bad) lesbian film didn’t happen. This episode we are travelling back to the 1990s to see one of Angelina Jolie’s earliest big screen ventures as she plays… wait for it… you…

Cinema trip! This weekend just gone the Queer Girl Film Club crew went to an actual real life cinema (complete with fellow audience members, including Guy Checking The Football Scores On His Phone As The Film Was Starting) to see Cate Blanchett going hell-for-leather for Oscar #3 in Tár (2022). The gang found that on top of Cate’s exquisite perform…

What’s more festive than a big family argument? Quite a lot of things, actually, but for our QGFC Christmas special there’s a lot of arguing going on as Alice and Georgia are taking sides against Holly is a massive (yet still analytical and funny) row about our festive queer girl film, Happiest Season (2020). Join us as Georgia outlines what it is …

The gang are heading to the coast of France, to an island with no men and only the intense staring and beautiful cinematography of one of the best films ever: Portrait Of A Lady On Fire (2019), Holly’s favourite film of all time, and a true masterpiece. QGFC are here to share the many many reasons they love this film, touching on light, consent, ar…

Problematic romance! Mary Sues or Manic Pixies Dream Teens! What was school really like for both students and teachers? Queer Girl Film Club are here to unpick the acres of oh-dear that is Loving Annabelle (2006), a romantic drama about a teacher falling for her… 17 year old student?! Oh 2006, what were you thinking??? Along the way the gang discus…

Don’t watch films with lots of delicious food on an empty stomach, and don’t record a podcast about foodie films on an empty stomach either! This week, Alice, Holly and Georgia are full of Indian food and ready to talk about Nina’s Heavenly Delights (2006) and its low low LOW budget charms. Set in the “small provincial town” of Glasgow, Nina’s cram…

The Virgos are back on their astrology bullshit again, and Holly uses the phrase “I went to Catholic school” more than once! It must be Queer Girl Film Club, back to talk about If These Walls Could Talk 2 (2000), a perfectly fine film which somehow elicited some utter madness from the QGFC posse. Did the team discuss the three stories told in the a…

Happy Halloween special from Queer Girl Film Club! We’re delving into the demonic and gory world of… high school girls and their strange, familiar, terrifying queer crushes. Oh yeah, and there’s a demon on the loose. That’s right, Alice, Georgia and Holly are here to give misunderstood 2009 horror classic Jennifer’s Body a reappraisal and a liberat…

Queer Girl Film Club or Queer Bait Film Club? This week the team welcome a very special guest, Melissa John-Charles, to discuss whether 90s classic Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) is hiding its queer light or whether it’s an outright lesbian love story. Holly certainly is convinced that there is no heterosexual explanation for this film. Join the gang …

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 gi…

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 E…

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…

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 fil…

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 …

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 thei…

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-f…

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 o…

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...Af Queer Girl Film Club

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 cin…

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, poi…

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 nonsens…

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 depicti…

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…

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…