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Note to Editors

Per WP:BLOGS – "Self-published expert sources may be considered reliable when produced by an established subject-matter expert, whose work in the relevant field has previously been published by reliable, independent publications."
Not every film released in the past and today is reviewed by a mainstream media source (such as The New York Times) or website (such as Deadline Hollywood). Sometimes the only reviews are found in niche publications and blogs by film experts.

In 2010, Film Comment published a list of film blogs: "The Top Film Criticism Sites: An Annotated Blog Roll".

Listed (and linked) in alphabetical order, these are the film blogs in the Film Comment article (some URLs changed since the article was published, while some blogs are no longer active):

Film Blogs

The Academic Hack
Acidemic
Ain't It Cool News (Ain't It Cool News)
Artforum.com (Artforum)
Cinebeats
CineMetrics
Dave Kehr (shut down blog in 2013) (Dave Kehr)
Diagonal Thoughts
DVD Beaver
Film Journey
Film-Philosophy (Film-Philosophy)
The Front Row
Girish Shambu (Girish Shambu)
The House Next Door (became official blog of Slant Magazine) (Slant Magazine)
indieWIRE (IndieWire)
Jonathan Rosenbaum (Jonathan Rosenbaum)
Kino Slang
Ludic Despair
The Man Who Viewed Too Much (Mike D'Angelo)
Masters of Cinema (Masters of Cinema)
Moving Image Source (Moving Image Source)
Mubi (Mubi (streaming service))
Not Coming to a Theater Near You (Not Coming to a Theater Near You)
Observations on Film Art (David Bordwell)
Order of the Exile
Paul Schrader (Paul Schrader)
Reverse Shot
Rouge] (Rouge (film journal))
Scanners (Jim Emerson blog now on RogerEbert.com)
The Self-Styled Siren
Senses of Cinema (Senses of Cinema)
Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule
The Seventh Art
Some Came Running
Strictly Film School
Supposed Aura (no longer available)
Thanks for the Use of the Hall
Undercurrent (no longer available) (reviews by Chris Fujiwara can be found on the web)
Unexplained Cinema (no longer available) (reviews by Greg Ferrara can be found on the web)
Video Watchblog (Tim Lucas)
World Picture
Wright On Film

Pyxis Solitary (yak yak). Ol' homo. 07:36, 11 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

A source that only says "queer" is not a source that verifies lesbian characters

Queer is an unspecific vague term. It can be taken to mean lesbian, or bisexual, or pansexual, or asexual, or non-binary. If a source chokes on the word lesbian (and many do), it might use "gay" or "homosexual" for the character, but "queer" is not enough.
The following film was removed from the list because the characters are not described as lesbian by the source:
| rowspan="2" | 2018 | rowspan="2" | ''[[Knife+Heart]]'' | Loïs McKenna | Kate Moran | rowspan="2" | | rowspan="2" | France, Mexico, Switzerland | rowspan="2" | {{cite web|last1=Abrams |first1=Simon |author-link=Roger Ebert|url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/knifeheart-2019 |title=Knife+Heart |website=[[RogerEbert.com]] |date=March 15, 2019}} |- | Anne Parèze | [[Vanessa Paradis]] |-
Pyxis Solitary (yak). L not Q. 08:44, 8 July 2022 (UTC); 11:12, 23 July 2022 (UTC) ^{[sources found with word "lesbian" in them, film re-added to list]}[reply]

Films that need sources

Removed from list because either (1) source provided does not verify one or both characters are lesbian (or "gay", or "homosexual"); or (2) film is missing reliable sources:

|- | 2006 | ''[[Inside Man]]'' | Nancy Mann | Samantha Ivers | She phones at the beginning of the movie just before the heist and hostage as her "girlfriend", implying that's she a lesbian. although this is also a common slang for simply a female friend particularly in that region at that time. | United States | |-
| rowspan="2" | 2022 | rowspan="2" | ''[[Bodies Bodies Bodies]]'' | Bee | [[Maria Bakalova]] | rowspan="2" | Bee is a working-class young woman from Eastern Europe, travels with her wealthy girlfriend Sophie to a "hurricane party" at a mansion owned by the family of Sophie's childhood friend David. | rowspan="2" | United States | rowspan="2" | (Does not verify lesbian characters: <ref>|title=Maria Bakalova Reveals Which Horror Movies Helped Her Prepare for 'Bodies Bodies Bodies' |url=https://collider.com/</ref>) |- | Sophie | [[Amandla Stenberg]] |- |-
|- | rowspan="2"| 2023 | rowspan="2"| ''[[Sheroes]]'' | Daisy | [[Skai Jackson]] | | rowspan="2"|United States | |- |Ryder |[[Wallis Day]] |-

Pyxis Solitary (yak). L not Q. 07:27, 10 September 2022 (UTC); 09:49, 19 April 2023 (UTC) ^{[film added]}, 10:07, 26 June 2024‎ ^{[film added]}[reply]

Films transferred from original list

The following films needing sources were formerly on the original Lists of feature films with LGBT characters talk page:

~~|- | 1993 |''[[Fight Back to School III]]'' | Ching Man Ching | Lesbian | [[Kathy Chow|Kathy Chow Hoi-mei]] | Girlfriend of socialite Judy Tong Wong, the dead man's wife. | Hong Kong | |-~~
|- | 2015 | ''[[Most Likely to Die]]'' | Jade | Lesbian | Tess Christiansen | | United States | |-
|- | 2022 | ''[[Master (2022 film)|Master]]'' | Gail Bishop | Lesbian | [[Regina Hall]] | Gail is the master of the Belleville house at Ancaster, a liberal arts college outside Boston. | United States | |-

Pyxis Solitary (yak). L not Q. 12:04, 16 September 2022 (UTC); 11:52, 24 February 2024 (UTC) ^{[striked film added to list]}[reply]

Sheroes Movie

I want to add characters from the movie Sheroesinto the list, but couldn't find any reliable sources. Can any contributors here help me find one? Runningman2027 (talk) 10:18, 4 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I think Wallis Day plays the lesbian character (with blue hair). But no film reviews, even way-out-there sources, say anything about it. Pyxis Solitary (yak yak). Ol' homo. 09:06, 5 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]