Category Archives: Movies

Valerie’s Letter

Posted on November 5, 2015 by Racheline Maltese

Every year on November 5, I post “Valerie’s Letter” from V for Vendetta somewhere. I first came upon it in the graphic novel my sophomore year in college (1991/1992) because of someone I was dating. Its cadence awed me, and it’s stayed … Continue reading →

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Seven things Pretty Woman taught us about the romance genre… despite how much we hated it

Posted on June 29, 2015 by Racheline Maltese

Erin and I resolutely did not start this thing where we watch romantic comedies to try to get a better understanding of our genre to skewer or make fun of movies.  While things about Bridget Jones’s Diary didn’t work for us, … Continue reading →

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Poll – what should the two queer chicks watch/subject themselves to next?

Posted on June 23, 2015 by erincmcrae

So over the last two days Racheline and I watched Bridget Jones’s Diary and Love, Actually. We had way too much fun in the process, and while we (tragically) can’t watch a rom com every night, we are planning to make this … Continue reading →

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11 things Love Actually taught us about the romance genre (or, romance can be kind of creepy, but you can mitigate that with cute kids and adorable dogs)

Posted on June 23, 2015 by Racheline Maltese

Love Actually is one of my favorite movies, although until tonight I hadn’t seen it in years; Erin, meanwhile, had never seen it before.  So we decided to tackle it much like we tackled Bridget Jones’s Diary yesterday (are we procrastinating … Continue reading →

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Nine things Bridget Jones’s Diary taught us about the romance genre (or, two queer romance writers, one really heterosexual romantic comedy — what could possibly go wrong?)

Posted on June 21, 2015 by Racheline Maltese

Erin and I each just watched Bridget Jones’s Diary for the first time.  We’re romance writers; it’s kind of a moral obligation.  And we found it by turns baffling, delightful, and weirdly instructive. So here are nine things Bridget Jones’s Diary just taught us … Continue reading →

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Romance @ Random: Begin Again review & True Blood recap (7.2)

Posted on July 2, 2014 by Racheline Maltese

This week I have two pieces up at Romance @ Random, both of which are a little more relevant to what Erin and I write than usual. The first is a review of Begin Again, a quasi-romantic comedy from the … Continue reading →

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