Nothing says summer fun like an $8 bag of popcorn, a bucket of soda and the sticky floor of an ice-cold movie theater. But if this summer’s highly hetero blockbusters don’t satisfy you (and why should they?), fear not: AfterEllen.com is here to put our uniquely lesbian spin on the Hollywood summer movie.
Just don’t talk during the previews – that’s the best part. When free-spirited party animal Kay scores a one-night stand with Alison, a successful hottie way out of her league, she thinks it’s a minor miracle. But the real miracle happens when Alison inexplicably becomes pregnant! Can a mismatched pair of lesbians survive the media, religious nuts and each other? With Laura Dern as Dr. Hickey and Judi Dench as Reverend Finkter.
After a freak accident involving a mercury-tainted tuna sandwich, a house-arrest ankle bracelet and a thunderstorm, mild-mannered beachcomber Eden discovers that she mutates into Grrl Surfer, her evil, metallic alter ego, whenever she’s asked a probing question about her personal life.
Twelve ordinary people sign up for a reality show, only to find the host of the show is a real, live pirate! After she kidnaps the female cast and throws all the men overboard, Captain Jupiter sets sail for Key West with her new all-female crew on her ship, the Wydow Maker.
On direct orders from God, a vegan restaurant owner builds an ark to save all the animals from a cataclysmic flood. Unfortunately, she only saves the creatures in female pairs, thus ensuring the demise of all. With no vegetation left after the deluge, she resorts to eating one of the cows and decides that meat, after all, is delicious.
An in-depth look at the state of gay marriage in America, brought to you by award-winning documentarian Michael Moore. Same-sex couples from across the country share their stories of love, legal battles and how to negotiate two-fer-one pricing on wedding gowns.
Who are those two old ladies down the street who live together with their nine cats? Are they sisters? Why are they always holding hands? Nancy, along with her friends Bess and George, investigate and learn a valuable lesson about the love that dare not speak its name.
In the year 2169, machines became self-aware, but a small number of them knew their factory-issued bodies didn’t match their CPUs. Led by their leader, FTM-1000, the Transgenders revolt and head out in search of new parts and understanding life partners.
Danny Ocean and his crew of high-end grifters are at it again. Fresh from The View, Rosie O’Donnell returns to the movies in the role of Dawn Budge, a trailer park lottery winner who’s lost all her money to a ruthless Keno scheme. Determined to get her money back, Dawn enlists Danny’s help and the two plan a complex con involving mistaken identities, counterfeit jewels and financial advice guru Suze Orman.
