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We all said the same thing as we watched Gina Carano -- aka "the face of Women's Mixed Martial Arts" -- get clobbered in her bout last month against Christine "Cyborg" Santos: Not the face! Brace yourselves lesbian fans because now Carano is slated to star in Steven Soderbergh's new action flick Knockout.

We’re filing this under campy things that make us happy on the Thursday of an already endless week. Catherine Zeta Jones visited The Ellen DeGeneres Show to promote her new film Side Effects from director Steven Soderbergh. Over time we’ve come to learn that is pretty much nothing Ellen can’t do, so why wouldn’t she show up avowed hula-hooper Catherine Zeta at her own game?

If hot women kicking ass is your thing then it’s a good weekend to go to the movies with mixed martial artist Gina Carano beating the boys in Haywire and Kate Beckinsale reprising her role as the leather-clad vampire Selene in Underworld: Awakening.

The Informant star and lesbian film darling Melanie Lynskey recently said that thinking about her Heavenly Creatures' costar Kate Winslet's uber-success makes her cry. Lynskey became a darling of lesbian cinema playing in But I'm a Cheerleader, the short The Nearly Unadventurous Life of Zoe Cadwaulder, Itty Bitty Titty Committee and on television in The L Word as a possible paramour for Leisha Hailey's Alice.

Stud Life, a new gay urban romance film is set to become one of the highlights of this year’s London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival (LLGFF) with its unique take on the lives of young lesbian and gay London and the influences of black street culture on that scene.

Capping a week that marked the loss of big-screen heartthrob Patrick Swayze and Kanye West lose his marbles — again — lesbian faves Tina Fey, Megan Fox, Elisabeth Shue, Maura Tierney, Helen Hunt, Robin Wright Penn and Mariel Hemingway lead this installment of the Hollywood Trade Roundup, a collection of hotties making headlines.

Lesbian cinephiles will know Melanie Lynskey instantly from her debut role as Pauline Parker, the teen who fell hard for Kate Winslet in Heavenly Creatures. She was Winslet’s first on-screen kiss, then co-starred as the uptight fink Hilary in Jamie Babbit’s lesbian fave But I’m a Cheerleader and next she'll be inUp in the Air, playing George Clooney’s small-town sister. The native New Zealander recently took time out to talk with SheWired.com about a the best picture Oscar race, playing gay and Heavenly Creatures.