Is your Instagram feed full of your friends baking cakes, muffins, banana bread… endless variations of banana bread? No? Just me? Well okay, but there’s a weird connection between the LGBTQ+ community and the calming, homely, carb-inflused art of “Sugar - Butter - Flour” (to quote the musical Waitress). And there’s something equally warm and... Continue Reading →
With the second episode of HBO's brilliant new unscripted series We're Here airing tonight, we caught up with actor, stand-up comedian and one of the most in-demand queens in the country, RuPaul's Drag Race season 8 winner Bob the Drag Queen, who also goes by their equally fabulous non-drag name, Caldwell Tidicue. Bob is not... Continue Reading →
The 2020 Tribeca Film Festival may have been unavoidably postponed, but it nevertheless continued in characteristically defiant and inspiring spirit with select films being made available for press and the juried competition, awarding top honours from this year’s program, still taking place. The winners have just been revealed in the festival's first virtual awards ceremony.... Continue Reading →
Everybody comes to HollywoodThey wanna make it in the neighborhoodThey like the smell of it in HollywoodHow could it hurt you when it looks so good?Madonna and Mirwais Ahmadzaï, Hollywood, 2003Only time will tell the lasting industry-wide impact of today's overdue conversations around increasing diversity in entertainment, but Ryan Murphy has certainly used his not... Continue Reading →
Following last week’s exceptional documentary Circus of Books by Rachel Mason from executive producer Ryan Murphy, Netflix continues to offer its subscribers a diverse array of LGBTQ related original content. This week alone it adds Ryan Murphy’s epic ‘what if?’ retelling of the Golden Age of Hollywood, with two episodes directed by Janet Mock; Alice... Continue Reading →
The 1975's bombastic self-isolation anthem Is it a bird? Is it a plane? The flaming fist of a vengeful deity? Perhaps a fleet of morbidly fascinated aliens back (with space snacks) for the next episode in Earth’s tragic mini-series? Trick question. It’s pop polymorphs, The 1975, digitally descending from the cloud to bless our weary... Continue Reading →
“I cannot sanction your buffoonery." That’s what Tommy Lee Jones reportedly said to Jim Carrey as they were about to make a Batman film together. It also neatly sums up the critical reaction to Joel Schumacher’s two Batman movies, Batman Forever (1995) and Batman & Robin (1997). Subversive, camp, kinky - Joel Schumacher queered the... Continue Reading →
Today, 20 major festivals from around the world joined with Tribeca Enterprises and YouTube to announce We Are One: A Global Film Festival. The unprecedented 10-day digital film festival will bring together an international community of storytellers to present festival programming for free. The festival will begin on May 29th on YouTube.com/WeAreOne and will feature... Continue Reading →
Sometimes you just need to read something totally light and fluffy to lift your mood, and The Love Left Behind by Australian author Daniel de Lorne is exactly that - a sugary tonic of romance and emotional drama. It may be full of empty calories but that’s the fun of it. Airline pilot Nick returns... Continue Reading →
Karen Bernstein’s I’m Gonna Make You Love Me is part of Amazon Prime Video and SXSW's virtual film fest Prime Video presents the SXSW 2020 Film Festival Collection which will play exclusively on Prime Video in the U.S. from today, Monday April 27th 2020 running through May 6th. The deeply personal, artfully executed film weaves archive footage, photographs,... Continue Reading →
