Be Gay Solve Crimes

This week on Be Gay Solve Crimes, we give you all the clues. Well, maybe not all of them. Some of the clues. A few clues. We're giving you a smattering of clues. Okay, final offer, we'll give you two thirds of the clues for two thirds of the hosts. That's right, it's the Lucy and Nova show this week

This week on Be Gay Solve Crimes, we take a trip down memory lane to the year 2007, only to immediately remember why the hell we ran away from there. It's the toxically theatrical and theatrically toxic Sleuth, a film that no one saw, but we presume everyone who did went on to transition. Join us as

You asked one question: Are the Be Gay Solve Crimes girlies ever going to cover a Coen brothers film? And after all this time, we finally answered. Oh yah. You betcha. Join us as Nova debates the best kind of walkie talkie sound effect, Mia gets very passionate about office feng shui, and Lucy compl

This week on Be Gay Solve Crimes, we’re getting a deeper shade of pinko and somehow yet more pan about it for the first of many Inspector Clouseau films; it’s that maddeningly madcap sixties classic, The Pink Panther! Join us as discuss the best way to coax some feeling back into David Niven’s littl

It's Scandi Week on Be Gay Solve Crimes, and so we're catching a red-eye flight above the Arctic circle to the city that never sleeps (Norwegian), just in time to check out a dazzlingly depressing work of sunlit Scandinavian noir, a film so Norse they made it tworce, it’s Insomnia (1997) starring St

This week on Be Gay Solve Crimes, we pay our respects to the late, great Tim Curry with a special episode on possibly the most famous adaptation of a board game ever, Clue! Join us as we welcome back our favourite Professional Automotive Journalist Victoria Scott of Tran Girlismo as a guest, Mia rev

This week on Be Gay Solve Crimes, we're taking what will be the first of many looks at Lt. Frank Drebin to prove that cops and women DO mix, starting with The Naked Gun (1988)! Join us as Lucy succumbs to rapid onset face blindness, Mia finally finds the missing piece of her life’s most elusive jigs

This week on Be Gay Solve Crimes, we're going back to 1970s Los Angeles if you can imagine such a thing. It's the Raymond Chandler classic The Long Goodbye with our beloved work-husband Philip Marlowe! Join us as you hallucinate us all hosting a podcast for you, Nova outlines exactly which hobbies a

This week on Be Gay Solve Crimes, we welcome the Chinese century with our most Brackets Chinese detective movie yet. A film that might be described as “what if someone made Disco Elysium the movie but set in Heilongjiang instead of Estonia.” It’s Black Coal, Thin Ice (2014), a.k.a. Daylight Firework

This week on Be Gay Solve Crimes, we thought it was about time we checked in on our Boy* in the Deerstalker**, and what better place to find him than Guy Ritchie's 2009 barroom brawl of a movie, Sherlock Holmes (2009), starring the acclaimed actor Robert Downey's acclaimed actor son. Join us as Nova

On this week's bonus episode of Be Gay Solve Crimes, we're getting voyeuristic about it Alfred Hitchcock-style with the curtain-twitching classic Rear Window (1954), featuring simultaneously the best dressed and worst dressed arm-chair sleuths we've yet seen. Join us as we give ourselves Grace Kelly

Hello, lovely detectives! We’re sorry to say the stars did not align for us this week and so we’ve unfortunately unavoidably had to postpone this week’s episode. The promised Rear Window bonus episode will instead arrive on Wednesday 12th August, after which, normal service will resume! We’re sorry

This week on Be Gay Solve Crimes, we’re getting in touch with the evil side of detectives, where policing, repression, and even Hollywood makeup can get a shade too dark. That’s right, it’s Orson Welles’ Touch of Evil (1958). Join us as we all fangirl over one of our favourite honey-voiced filmmaker

On this extra special bonus episode of Be Gay Solve Crimes, we're joined by our dear friend Devon of Kill James Bond to talk about one of the most transgender detective films of all time, a movie we've been itching to do ever since we started this podcast, it's the hybrid cartoon film noir classic,

This week on Be Gay Solve Crimes, we're boogying on down back to tinseltown for some 1970s crashout double act deliciousness, it's the eponymous "guys" from The Nice Guys (2016). Join us as we discover the fastest way of converting someone to Catholicism, the fastest way to convert someone to The Bl

On this week’s Bonus Episode of Be Gay Solve Crimes, we’re on the hunt for a legendary movie, one of the best of all time, so we’re told. But when we find it, will it be everything that we hoped it would be? That’s right, we’re doing The Maltese Falcon! Join us as we get lost in a plot that pulls a

This week on Be Gay Solve Crimes, Nova rolls a natural twenty on the most insanely unlikely movie pull yet. It’s the exhaustively-memed early-00s stoner comedy Super Troopers, and for some reason it’s more transgender than we could have possibly guessed. Join us for Barefoot Cops, frozen bananas, su

On this bonus episode of Be Gay Solve Crimes, we turn on, tune in, and drop out for a groovy double-LP of an episode with two detectives for the price of one. That’s right, daddio, it’s Inherent Vice! Come join us as we give ourselves 1960s hippie dysphoria, discuss the best technique for eating a f

This week on Be Gay Solve Crimes, we take a detour from the classics to have a proper gander at the copaganda screenwriters are making today. And it turns out, they don't make 'em like they used to. That's right, it’s the alarmingly recent and alarmingly cisgender Mercy (2026). Join us to see just h

On this bonus episode of Be Gay Solve Crimes, home of The World’s Hottest Selling Transgenic Treats, we don our blood filled black leather converse all stars for a trip back to I, Robot (2004), based on some of Isaac Asimov's best sentences. Join us as we welcome Mia Mulder home and finally discover

This week on Be Gay Solve Crimes, we're joined by our dear friend Josh Boerman (host of Worst of All Possible Worlds and Ill Conceived!) for an episode all about that scruffiest of detectives, Columbo! Specifically in... uhh... [spinning a big wheel] ...Season 2, Episode 5? Requiem For A Falling Sta

On this Patreon exclusive bonus episode of Be Gay Solve Crimes, we're gonna keep riding this Philip K Dick train all the way into android town. That's right, it's the surprisingly sleepy BLADE RUNNER (1982). Join us as we discuss Harrison Ford's slutty little waist, Mia lays out a theory about Makin

This week on Be Gay Solve Crimes, we’re cruising on over to the noughties to watch the ever-prescient Steven Spielberg film Minority Report (2002), based on the classic novella by Philip K Dick. Join us for a vision of a future where we blow our entire Patreon budget on milk baths and pass the savin

On this Patreon exclusive bonus episode of Be Gay Solve Crimes, we're checking in on our dear friend, the synth detective himself, Nick Valentine from Fallout 4 and Far Harbor. Join us as Lucy gets immediately sidetracked into talking about Fallout: New Vegas, Mia and Nova join forces to try and mod

This week on Be Gay Solve Crimes, we're leapfrogging right into Inspector Gadget 2! The one with the Girl Inspector Gadget, who looks remarkably like a friend of ours. Join us on the goopiest episode yet as we introduce you all to our new beloved cyborg co-host Robo-Nova, wade into a whole new world

On this extra special bonus episode of Be Gay Solve Crimes, we're investigating the beloved american classic Nancy Drew, joined by our own beloved american class act and dear friend Victoria Scott, host of the podcast Tran Girlismo! Specifically, we're covering the 2007 eponymous film that literally

This week on Be Gay Solve Crimes, things are finally getting Swedish round here as we dig out the files on Stieg Larsson's posthumous novel Men Who Hate Women, as well as its two separate film adaptations; The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, and The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. But which one are we wat

On this bonus episode of Be Gay Solve Crimes, we blow the lid on a 30 year old case by analysing the classic Simpsons two parter 'Who Shot Mr Burns?' "But wait, I thought it was the baby?" Oh ho, my friend, I'm afraid you could not be wrongerer. Join us for an unexpectedly jazz-filled extravaganza a

Bonjour, détectives! This week on Be Gay Solve Crimes, we bring in Commissaire Jules Maigret for some much needed gender questioning. Specifically, the Georges Simenon novella Maigret and the Dead Girl, for which the best on-screen adaptation unfortunately stars the most Brought-In-For-Questioning a

What? You thought we were gonna take our sweet time getting round to this? You think we're kidding around here? We've never been more serious about anything in our goddamn lives. That's right. You've waited long enough. It's time for L.A. Noire. It's like regular noir, but it has an e on the end bec

This week on Be Gay Solve Crimes, we turn our interrogation lamp directly in the face of Miss Jane Marple. Specifically, the achingly gay 2005 ITV adaptation of A Murder Is Announced. Join us as we give ourselves crippling 1940s Woman Dysphoria, watch the butchest of butch lesbians Spank The Hogs, a

On this week's Bonus Episode of Be Gay Solve Crimes, we take a leaf out of the late great Hannibal Lecter's book and, tongues firmly in our cheeks, attempt to pin down that most curious of transphobic shapeshifters, Silence of the Lambs (1991). Thanks so much for subscribing to our Patreon! Join us

This week on Be Gay Solve Crimes, our investigation brings us to Hercule Poirot in Death On The Nile (1978). Join us as we hunt down a League of Library Assassins, enlist Butch Maggie Smith to help us finally make the switch to injections, and watch Angela Lansbury down a crocodilian cocktail* to ap

This week on Be Gay Solve Crimes we turn our magnifying glasses on Disco Elysium, setting out to prove once and for all that underneath all his baggage, Harrier du Bois may in fact have been Harrier du Girls all this time. Available now to all our £5 and above patrons! Thanks so much for subscribing

Welcome to our new transfeminine detective podcast! Every episode, Mia Mulder (@Potatopolitics), November Kelly (@postoctobrist), and Lucy From Scotland (@absobloodylucy) interrogate a different piece of detective fiction in hopes of answering the greatest mystery of all: is being a detective a kind