Girls Like Girls (2026)

Brent Marchant June 19, 2026

★ 3/10

It’s genuinely heartening to see how much LGBTQ+ cinema has progressed over the part 30 years. When the genre was new, most of its releases fell into a limited handful of storylines, which, though groundbreaking at the time, have since been surpassed by numerous other works that have moved beyond the basics. And that’s why the debut feature from writer-director Hayley Kiyoko is such a huge disappointment. The film is a rather uninspired throwback more typical of pictures released in this genre in the 1980s, making the material seem quite dated compared to more contemporary offerings. Even though this story takes place in a small town in the first decade of the new millennium – a setting somewhat less progressive than others at that time and certainly much more so than compared to today – it nevertheless comes across like something more akin to LGTBQ+ movies from years earlier. An…

CinemaSerf October 8, 2026

★ 6/10

"Nicole" (aka "Coley" - Maya da Costa) is living with her stepdad "Curtis" (Zach Braff) and coming to terms with the recent accidental death of her mother. They have moved to a new location where she is struggling to settle in until, that is, she starts to befriend the popular "Sonya" (Myra Molloy) who seems to be having an on/off relationship with the frankly pretty obnoxious "Trenton" (Levon Hawke). It's soon quite clear that "Coley" feels something a little more intimate towards her new friend, the question is - does "Sonya" reciprocate? According to auteur Hayley Kiyoko, this film took ten years from original concept to get to the big screen, but unfortunately gay cinema has advanced in leaps and bounds in those intervening years - particularly where women are concerned. It's not unusual at all now to see lesbian couples portrayed in mainstream cinema, and so this has rather lost any…