Today marks the start of the Dublin Chinese New Year Festival, and this year it’s the Year of the Dragon. The perfect excuse, then, to ask you: who is your favourite girl with the dragon tattoo, aka Lisbeth Salander? Noomi Rapace or Rooney Mara? Why not have a browse through some photos before voting!

Meryl Streep is one of those actors that make you want to see a film before you even know what it is about. She’s a genuine artist in a world of celebrity. However, even she couldn’t save The Iron Lady from missing the point.

Over the weekend I got to finally sit down and watch a film I have been really looking forward to, Circumstance. Not exactly traditional Christmas TV but well worth the wait. This film will move you deeply in a way few film do.

These are the top 10 articles on Gaelick that you just could keep your peepers off this year. Is your favourite here, or have we left out something very important? Read! Share! Comment!

Okay, okay. It’s the 1st December now, so Christmas Is Allowed. I shall humbug no more. The new Muppets film is super cute according to the Autostraddlers. So that’s the perfect excuse to reprise the Muppet Christmas Carol.

Need space? Outhouse’s multi-purpose venue is now open for busyness! Located in the heart of Dublin city, Outhouse can host a wide range of events including: Workshops, rehearsals, exhibitions, auditions, conferences, performances, launches, meetings, readings, film screenings. Wow!

Snow Flowers, the first film from Nepal to depict a same-sex relationship, has completed filming and is due to be released in early 2012. AFP’s bureau chief in Kathmandu, Frankie Taggart, recently spoke with the film’s director and lead actors.

Congratulations to our latest competition winners, who won tickets to fabulous OutLook films! (This competition is now closed, but stay tuned for more giveaway goodies!)

On Saturday, we previewed some of the films appearing as part of the OutLook programme in this year’s Cork Film Festival. Here’s your chance to win tickets to see some queer cinema treats this weekend!

  People of Cork, I envy you. The Corona Cork Film Festival begins on Sunday, 6th November, and as part of the schedule several LGBT films comprise the OutLook programme. Here are a few that have caught my eye:   She Monkeys (Apflickorna) | Sun, 6th Nov at 2pm Also screening: Flyers   Distributed by [...]

Charlene McKenna and her fellow cast members from the show, made the following excellent video for BeLonG To in support of this year’s Stand Up! LGBT Awareness Week. And isn’t she fabulous?

The Irish Times reports this morning that the board of Dublin’s Light House cinema are meeting to discuss a petition by the cinema’s landlord to wind up the company. But who benefits?

What hot girl on girl action is coming to our screens in 2011? Here’s a list of queer-tastic films we think you may enjoy

Take your seats, lesbians and gays, for Outlook – the LGBT programme of this week’s Cork Film Festival.

It’s been quite a while since our last round-up of what’s been happening here at Gaelick Towers. (Personally, I blame the hectic madness of Pride and the Civil Partnership Bill.) Let’s remedy that, shall we?

Oh, lesbian films. How do you disappoint us, let us count the ways! Let’s think back: Go Fish, High Art, Bound, and of course the “classic” of the genre, Claire of the Moon. Thankfully with Hannah Free my fears were unfounded.

On the silver screen lesbians tend to fit into one or all of the following categories: Insane, Lonely, Trying to have a baby. Trans women can add freak to the list and bisexual women can throw a pinch of conniving into this heady mix. Even films made by women who love women very often end up putting the hom in homicidal, the bi in bizarre and the t in touched.