alice wu

alice wu

tv news & trailers

Alice Wu Directed an Oreo Commercial and You’ll Cry Buckets of Art Film Gay Tears

I am no stranger to the Gay Oreo Commercials That Make You Sob Through Your T-Shirt as a genre, if you will. The Oreo Gay Cinematic Universe, one might say.…

Carmen Phillips —

Apr 4, 2022

alice wu

lost movie reviews from the Autostraddle archives

film

“Saving Face” Made My Lesbian Dance Floor Fantasies Come True

“I don’t know what’s gayer: the outfit itself or the fact that Vivian remembers it in such specific detail 19 years later.”

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya —

Dec 1, 2020

alice wu

netflix

movie reviews

A Love Letter to Alice Wu’s “The Half Of It”

You’re as epic as the concept of love and as small as the town of Squahamish. You’re as perfect as a movie can be and as messy as a movie…

Drew Burnett Gregory —

Apr 30, 2020

alice wu

interview

movie features

Alice Wu on “The Half Of It,” Artistic Integrity, and Her High School Crush

“Being a closeted teen who wasn’t even aware meant I just listened to melancholy songs and imbued an unrealistic amount of meaning to them.”

Drew Burnett Gregory —

Apr 30, 2020

alice wu

netflix

movie reviews

Alice Wu’s “The Half Of It” Lives Up to the Hype by Fulfilling and Subverting the Expectations Set by “Saving Face”

Contemporary YA novels don’t necessarily have happy endings so much as hopeful ones, and The Half of It follows this blueprint, delicately treading the fine line between saccharine and heartfelt…

Malinda Lo —

Apr 29, 2020

alice wu

netflix

movie news & trailers

“The Half Of It” Trailer: Alice Wu is Back With the Lesbian Teen Romcom of Your Dreams

Yes, this is a coming-of-age lesbian teen romcom by the director of Saving Face, and, yes, I did cry tears of joy in the first minute of the trailer.

Drew Burnett Gregory —

Apr 9, 2020