Although it’s been nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture, most critics feel The Kids Are All Right, Lisa Cholodenko’s film about two lesbian moms, their teen children, and their sperm donor, won’t take home any prizes tonight. That’s okay. Whether it wins, or even if you disliked it (as many in the lesbian […]
I’m not going to do my usual political roundup this week because the Prop 8 ruling and Elena Kagan’s confirmation have made it a week full o’ politics. I will, however, point out a few items, political and otherwise, that are worth a read. “What teens think about Prop. 8 being struck down” from the
Yes, we’re all waiting for the Prop 8 decision to come out later today. In the meantime, let’s go back to the ongoing discussion about The Kids Are All Right. Over at Moms and Bombs, Kellen Kaiser asserts, “I’m ‘all right’, I don’t know about the rest of them,” and offers her opinion as the
I reviewed the lesbian mom movie The Kids Are All Right when it first came out, a little over a week ago. At the risk of overdoing it, I want to write some more. Many other lesbian bloggers have also turned their pens to reviews, including Dorothy Snarker at After Ellen, Julie Goldman and Brandy Howard
Regardless of whether you’ve seen The Kids Are All Right yet (and you should—here’s why), what do you think the next major film about lesbian moms (or heck, any type of LGBT family) should be about? I’d love to see a family that wasn’t white and middle class, myself. How about you? What family characteristics,
I’m pleased to see coverage of The Kids Are All Right popping up all over the media. (My own review is here.) I wanted to highlight a couple of interviews with director Lisa Cholodenko and many in the cast, including Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Josh Hutcherson, and Mia Wasikowska. Below is comedian Bridget McManus doing
(The Kids Are All Right opens in select theaters tomorrow, and in wider release soon thereafter. My short review: Go see this film. My longer review, which first appeared in Bay Windows, is below.) I was a skeptic. When I first heard of The Kids Are All Right, a film about a pair of lesbian
(Originally written for my Mombian newspaper column.) Sperm donors are in. The upcoming feature film The Kids Are All Right stars Annette Bening and Julianne Moore as lesbian moms whose children go in search of their donor. The new memoir Three Wishes is by three straight women who each almost—but not quite—used the same vial
Now out: a trailer for Sundance film The Kids Are All Right, starring Julianne Moore and Annette Bening as lesbian moms whose kids decide to go in search of their sperm donor (Mark Ruffalo). My initial thoughts: Moore and Bening make a great couple, but just once I want to see lesbian moms on screen
Actor and mom Julianne Moore just did a video interview with the Advocate to promote her Valentine’s Day project with Save the Children, selling cards designed by top children’s illustrators to raise money for fighting poverty in America. Along the way, she talks about engaging children in social change, how LGBT families in particular have
