Poly-ish Movie Reviews
by Joreth InnKeeper
Welcome to Poly-ish Movie Reviews, where I watch the crap so you don't have to! I watch a lot of movies. Some of those movies are great. But a lot of them are crap. I'm here to help you sort out which is which, so that you don't have to waste your time on bad cinema, unless that's your thing. No judgement - I like a lot of terrible movies. I'm just saying that, as we polys know, love may be infinite, but time is not. Let me help you manage that increasingly rare and precious time of yours by sharing my opinions on movies that some have claimed to be "poly" so that you can make better decisions on which ones to spend your time with.
Episodes
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Poly-ish Movie Reviews - Episode 57: iZombie
Yet another cop drama with non-monogamous people involved in a murder? Can Hollywood actually show ethical non-monogamy or is it just another excuse to punish "deviants"? Joreth reviews the Netflix show, iZombie, to find out. www.PolyishMovieReviews.com That was a surprisingly hopeful episode....
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Polyish Movie Reviews - Episode 56: Heartbeats
A movie in French about polyamory? Will this finally be the French film that Joreth doesn't hate? Does it actually have any polyamory in it? www.polyishmoviereviews.com Apparently my distaste for French ennui cinema extends to French Canadian ennui cinema. I just don't like ennui, I guess. Yet...
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Polyish Movie Reviews - Episode 55: The Duchess
Can a Hollywood-made dramatic biopic made in the current century actually show polyamory? That might depend on how we define "polyamory". Joreth reviews the narrative version of Lady Georgiana Cavendish's life as portrayed by Natalie Portman to see if polyamory happened during the Georgian era…
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Polyish Movie Reviews - Episode 54: Big Top Pee-Wee
Many today think of Pee Wee Herman as a children's show character, but that was not always the case. He started out as a very adult stand-up character that morphed into a weird, surrealist dark humor movie character, that then got a children's show, and THEN ... made this movie. What does all…
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Polyish Movie Reviews - Episode 53: Beloved Sisters
Joreth reviews the biographical historical drama Beloved Sisters, a biopic about two sisters, Caroline and Charlotte von Lengefeld, and the man they love, German poet Friedrich Schiller. Discussing sorrel polygyny, can this FMF polygynous arrangement be polyamorous? Is it true? Did it happen?…
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Poly-ish Movie Reviews - Episode 52: A Good Old Fashioned Orgy
A group of aging friends decide to say goodbye to their youth with ... an orgy? Joreth finds out if a bunch of single people can navigate group sex with respect and maturity, and does group sex make it poly or not? OK, I have had this movie in my queue forever and people keep telling me about it....
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Poly-ish Movie Reviews - Episode 51: 5 To 7
A married woman takes a lover, but can Joreth take yet another affair movie? www.polyishmoviereviews.com It's so much worse when they manage to get you to like a movie before they turn it to shit. No, you're not experiencing deja vu. I said that exact same line when I reviewed Paint Your Wagon....
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Poly-ish Movie Reviews - Episode 50: 3 (Drei)
Yet another movie named "3" - will this one have some polyamory in it? Or will it be another cheating film? Joreth reviews the German film Drei, or 3, for polyamorous content. I've updated my Netflix queue with poly movies so long ago, I can't remember anymore which movies were added because I…
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Poly-ish Movie Reviews - Episode 49: Something About Sex
3 couples struggle with the definitions of monogamy and fidelity, after some "insight" from Jason Alexander. Joreth reviews this film to see if any ethical non-monogamy could possibly come out of it at all. Oh. Gourd. This movie. There's so much to hate about this movie. Where to even begin?…
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Poly-ish Movie Reviews - Episode 48: Three
There are so many movies called "Three"! Is this one that actually has polyamory in it? Is there really an FMF triad like on the cover? Are any of the characters polyamorous? Or is this just another cheating cautionary tale or threesome gone wrong story? Joreth reviews this particular "Three" to...
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Poly-ish Movie Reviews - Episode 47: Bandits
Can a movie with blockbuster names be a poly movie? Joreth reviews Bandits with Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, and Cate Blanchet to see if there is any polyamory in this star-studded film. www.PolyishMovieReviews.com It's past time that I did a review of Bandits, but for some reason I keep...
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Poly-ish Movie Reviews - Episode 46: The Blood Oranges
Can a movie set in the '60s and filmed in the '90s really feature a polyamorous quad? Joreth reviews The Blood Oranges for a little-seen poly structure to see if there is any polyamory in it at all. "Husband and wife Cyril and Fiona explore new ground and new relationships when they take a…
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Poly-ish Movie Reviews - Episode 45: The Unbearable Lightness Of Being
How well does this particular fan recommendation hold up to Joreth's poly critique? Sometimes I think that maybe I'm actually speaking a different language from everyone else, and maybe I have some kind of universal translator or babelfish so that I can't tell, but that the translator is buggy or...
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Poly-ish Movie Reviews - Episode 44: She's Gotta Have It (movie)
Can Spike Lee's inaugural film really be a poly movie as everyone claims? Joreth watches this groundbreaking movie to find out! There's something about student films and classic French movies that just do not work for me. Maybe it's the penchant for black and white even in a color era, or maybe...
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Poly-ish Movie Reviews - Episode 43: The Mentalist
Polyamory in the wild? Can a TV show that isn't about polyamory at all really have an episode with polyamorous characters in an open marriage and treat the subject well? Joreth reviews an episode of The Mentalist to find out! Here's a new one! I find poly movies to review by one of 3 ways: 1)…
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Poly-ish Movie Reviews - Episode 42: Family
Can a web series about a poly triad really be about polyamory? Yeah, it probably is. Joreth reviews the show Family, a creative endeavor by Teresa Greenan, a polyamorous filmmaker based out of Portland, OR. I've posted about this show before on my personal blog, but I haven't done an official...
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Poly-ish Movie Reviews - Episode 41: Le Bonheur
Ah, French ... the culture of love! Where "alternative" relationship structures are not frowned upon and the people understand the power of passion! Or do they? Joreth reviews a movie filmed in the Swingin' '60s on recommendation from a listener, to see if there is any polyamory or ethical...
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Poly-ish Movie Reviews - Episode 40: Keeping The Faith
A priest and a rabbi walk into an airport ... to meet their childhood best friend, a tomboy who has grown up into a beautiful, intelligent, independent, CEO. As she visits her hometown and her two best friends, the men struggle with their growing romantic feelings for the same woman. Could this...
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Poly-ish Movie Reviews - Episode 39: A Strange Affair
Can a made-for-tv movie about a broken marriage have polyamorous content in it? Joreth reviews this Judith Light film to see if there is any polyamory in a low-budget, '80s flick. The Netflix summary reads: "Judith Light stars in this sexy made-for-TV drama about a married woman who discovers…
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Poly-ish Movie Reviews - Episode 38: Fling
Can a mainstream movie about an "open marriage" really have some polyamory in it? Joreth reviews the movie Fling, starring Brandon Routh, Steve Sandvoss, and Courtney Ford, to answer that very question. This movie caused me quite some consternation because it had equal parts of "include" and "do...
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Poly-ish Movie Reviews - Episode 37: Esmeralda Comes By Night
Can a movie about a woman charged with bigamy on the day of her 6th wedding really be about polyamory? Joreth reviews this quirky Spanish film that challenges the standard narrative of a man and his harem, and questions everything a conservative judge ever thought he knew about love and...
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Poly-ish Movie Reviews - Episode 36: Sleep With Me
Sleep With Me promises "raucous laughter" and sexy fun times with sexy Eric Stoltz, Meg Tilly, and Craig Sheffer, but does it deliver? Joreth reviews this "romantic comedy" for polyamory, romance, and comedy. I don't think I've ever felt so misled by a movie summary before in my life. Netflix…
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Poly-ish Movie Reviews - Episode 35: Rita, Sue, & Bob Too!
Rita, Sue, & Bob Too! was hailed as a landmark comedy in the '80s in Britain, and also passed around polyamorous online groups as a poly film. But is it? Is it both? One or the other? Neither? Joreth reviews this wildly acclaimed movie for any hint of polyamory, open relationships, or consensual...
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Poly-ish Movie Reviews - Episode 34: Blow Dry
Could Alan Rickman possibly have started in a poly movie?! Joreth reviews this unusual film to see if a happy polyamorous V or triad family can be found among the backstabbing, vicious world of competitive hair styling. I don't know where this movie came from. Did you know that the Netflix DVD...
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Poly-ish Movie Reviews - Episode 33: The Sex Monster
This movie occasionally gets mentioned in discussions of poly movies. But is it? Joreth reviews Sex Monster for traces of an open marriage, triads, or any polyamory. I just watched the most godawful movie ever. Well, to be fair, this movie was not on a poly movie list, it was recommended to me by...
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Poly-ish Movie Reviews - Episode 32: Lutine
New(ish) polyamory mockumentary, Lutine, gets Joreth's special coverage to see if it's really polyamorous! Does this French fictional documentary do poly justice, or does it stick with the same old, tired, "opening up" stories and open marriages? I was a little nervous about reviewing this film....
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Poly-ish Movie Reviews - Episode 31: Shortbus
Is the indie film Shortbus really a poly film? This movie claims to have it all - alternative sexuality, BDSM, polyamory, consensual & ethical non-monogamy, swinging, "free love", and more. I'm just going to come right out and say it ... I didn't like this movie. I know, it's all groundbreaking...
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Poly-ish Movie Reviews - Episode 30: Kiss Me Again
Can a movie that actually describes itself as a "cautionary tale" make the Polyish Movie List? Joreth watches Kiss Me Again to see if this couple can open up their marriage to a bisexual women into a happy polyamorous triad, or is it yet another case of bad Unicorn Hunting? Well that was a...
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Poly-ish Movie Reviews - Episode 29: Professor Marston & The Wonder Women
Sex! BDSM! Bisexuality! Comic books! Joreth checks out what all the hubbub is about the new biopic, Professor Marston & The Wonder Women, in theaters at the time of this episode! Here's your chance to check out a polyamorous movie on the big screen. This movie has so much to discuss! First, let's...
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Poly-ish Movie Reviews - Episode 28: Story of O
Is the popular adult film, The Story of O, really a poly movie as so many people claim? Joreth takes one for the team and watches this erotic film to scour it for polyamory. I think the big problem I have with stories like the Sleeping Beauty saga and Story of O is because they never establish…
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Poly-ish Movie Reviews - Episode 27: Amelia
Was Amelia Earhart really polyamorous? Joreth reviews the 2009 movie with Hilary Swank to see what this version of the story has to say about it. First of all, I'm going to give spoilers. This movie is based on a real person and historically important events, so I don't feel any need to protect...
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Poly-ish Movie Reviews - Episode 26: The Wedding Banquet
Can a marriage of convenience turn into a happy polyamorous triad? Joreth reviews The Wedding Banquet about a gay man, his lover, his green-card wife, and his very traditional Chinese parents to answer this question. The DVD summary says "Successful New Yorker Wai Tung and his partner Simon are...
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Poly-ish Movie Reviews - Episode 25: A Woman Is A Woman
Joreth takes another foray into the world of independent, foreign films from the '60s. From the era of Free Love, can this be a long lost poly movie? What do you get when you take two people who don't like each other, who want totally different things out of a relationship, who are pigheaded and...
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Poly-ish Movie Reviews - Episode 24: Trois
A movie with the number 3 in the title can't be all bad can it? Joreth reviews Trois, a Netflix recommendation about a unicorn-hunting threesome. Content Note: This review contains the sardonic use of ableist language & possibly sex-negative sex worker language intending to mock the sorts of...
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Poly-ish Movie Reviews - Episode 23: Same Time, Next Year
Could there be polyamorous content in this classic play-turned-film from 1978? Joreth reviews one of the more successful screen adaptations of a stage play as a possible polyish movie. I first saw this movie as a kid. It was playing on some B-movie channel like USA or Lifetime, and it had already...
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Poly-ish Movie Reviews - Episode 22: Whatever Works
Can Woody Allen handle polyamory? Joreth reviews Whatever Works for a polyamorous sub-plot of a ménage à trois triad or a "household of three". Whatever Works by Woody Allen, was recommended to me by my best friend. I'm not a Woody Allen fan. I get awfully tired of his...
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Poly-ish Movie Reviews - Episode 21: Portrait Of A Marriage
Joreth reviews the BBC bio-drama of the turbulent relationship between writer Vita Sackville-West and Violet Keppel and the effect on their families. I had such high hopes for this movie! It's based on the true story of renowned feminist writer Vita Sackville-West, during the early part of the…
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Poly-ish Movie Reviews - Episode 20: Summer Lovers
Joreth reviews a classic film of exploration starring Darryl Hannah. If you want to see a poly movie, I can think of no better example than Summer Lovers. This movie stars Daryl Hannah and takes place in the very early 1980s in the romantic and exotic setting of a beach-side villa in Greece.…
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Poly-ish Movie Reviews - Episode 19: Y Tu Mamá También
The popular, award-winning Mexican film, Y Tu Mamá También, often gets a mention in poly movie lists, but is it really? Joreth reviews it to find out! I'm not sure which poly movie list this was on, but I don't think it was poly. It wasn't a bad movie, and it was definitely about multiple sex...
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Poly-ish Movie Reviews - Episode 18: My Girlfriend's Boyfriend
Does Netflix' suggestions get it right? Joreth reviews a movie called My Girlfriend's Boyfriend on the recommendation of a computer algorithm based on prior movies watched. The description from Netflix reads: Jesse Young is a girl who has everything and maybe too much of it when she finds herself...
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Poly-ish Movie Reviews - Episode 17: Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid
Joreth reviews the classic movie, Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid with Robert Redford, Paul Newman, and Katharine Ross. Could there be some polyamory in this Old West legend? This is a difficult movie for me to categorize. First of all, it's a western all about Butch Cassidy and the Sundance...
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Poly-ish Movie Reviews - Episode 16: Futurama - The Beast With A Billion Backs
Joreth reviews ... Futurama? Yes, the feature-length movie A Beast With A Billion Backs was recommended for review for polyamory. On the recommendation of an ex partner of mine, I watched Futurama: The Beast With A Billion Backs. It's a poly story. Seriously. No, I mean it, it is! I enjoy…
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Poly-ish Movie Reviews - Episode 15: Paint Your Wagon
Was Clint Eastwood in a poly movie? Wait, Clint Eastwood sings? Joreth reviews the classic film Paint Your Wagon with Clint Eastwood, Lee Marvin, and Jean Seaberg. It's so much worse when they manage to get you to like a movie before they turn it to shit.I watched Paint Your Wagon, a cheesy movie...
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Poly-ish Movie Reviews - Episode 14: Compersion
Joreth reviews the new web series, Compersion, directed by Jackie J. Stone, with Jammie Patton, Derrick LeMont, and Ka'ramuu Kush. Wow. So, I've made it through the first 4 episodes aired so far. I'm blown away. OK, first of all, this is a new series airing on a "new digital network", aka…
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Poly-ish Movie Reviews - Episode 13: You Me Her pt. 1
There's a new TV show out entirely about a triad! Joreth reviews the first episode of You Me Her. I'm gonna review this new TV show one episode at a time. Which means that I don't know how it ends or where things go when I review it. And this whole thing is going to be spoilerific for each…
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Poly-ish Movie Reviews - Episode 12: Micki & Maude
Joreth reviews Micki & Maude, a story about a bigamist who must keep his wives from meeting each other, which becomes tricky when they're both pregnant. Micki & Maude is a bedroom farce-style romantic comedy that I was expecting to disappoint me. I'll be honest, I'm not really a big Dudley Moore...
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Poly-ish Movie Reviews - Episode 11: Design For Living
Joreth reviews Design For Living, a movie about an MFM triad filmed in the 1930s, starring Gary Cooper, Frederic March and Miriam Hopkins. This was on a list of poly movies, and the Netflix description reads: "Packing double éntendres and boudoir innuendos galore, director Ernst Lubitsch's racy...
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Poly-ish Movie Reviews - Episode 10: The Ethical Slut webseries
Joreth finally gets around to reviewing the webseries based on the famous book, The Ethical Slut. As the Chief Media Archivist for the Polyamory Library at the Kinsey Institute, I got a sneak preview of the new web series, The Ethical Slut, "inspired by" the book of the same name by Dossie Easton...
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Poly-ish Movie Reviews - Episode 9: Sex And Breakfast
Joreth reviews Sex And Breakfast with Macaulay Culkin, Eliza Dushku, a story of two couples having trouble in their relationships coming together to see if group sex can fix them. As an ex-partner of mine used to say, they ought to put a label on "poly" movies to warn us that "this movie contains...
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Poly-ish Movie Reviews - Episode 8: Hyde Park On Hudson
Joreth reviews Hyde Park On Hudson with Bill Murray, Laura Linney, and Olivia Williams. As Great Britain faces an imminent war with Germany, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his wife, Eleanor, invite the King and Queen of England for a weekend at their home in upstate New York. But during…
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Welcome to Poly-ish Movie Reviews, where I watch the crap so you don't have to! I watch a lot of movies. Some of those movies are great. But a lot of them are crap. I'm here to help you sort out which is which, so that you don't have to waste your time on bad cinema, unless that's your thing. No judgement - I like a lot of terrible movies. I'm just saying that, as we polys know, love may be infinite, but time is not. Let me help you manage that increasingly rare and precious time of yours by sharing my opinions on movies that some have claimed to be "poly" so that you can make better decisions on which ones to spend your time with.
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