It feels like the disclaimer, “Based On A True Story” means less and less these days, as filmmakers seem to play fast and loose with the facts more and more. Nowhere has this felt more evident than with Hit Man, Richard Linklater’s collaboration with his star, co-writer and co-producer, Glenn Powell. Inspired by Skip Hollandsworth’s... Continue Reading →
The Emmy, Peabody, and GLAAD award-winning series We’re Here returns to HBO this Friday, April 26th at 9pm ET/PT, with new episodes debuting weekly and also streaming on Max. Created by Stephen Warren and Johnnie Ingram, and once again deftly directed by Peter LoGreco, this six-episode fourth season powerfully builds on what has come before... Continue Reading →
Tired of watching the world circling the drain? Would you like to smile for 108 minutes? Then trust me, drop everything and watch Hundreds Of Beavers now! This low-budget indie instant classic marks the feature directorial debut of Mike Cheslik who spent four years making it, including over 1500 effects shots in freezing temperatures in... Continue Reading →
Films and movies often operate on different planes of existence. Some films feel like homework. Some take you to distant lands and shine a light on different cultures. Some intimately expose the human condition. But movies? Well, my favorite kind of movies thrive on pure adrenaline, action and sexual excitement. Who doesn’t love looking at... Continue Reading →
Wait till you get a load of this... After making its world premiere back in September 2022 in the Midnight Madness section at the Toronto International Film Festival, Vera Drew's thrillingly irreverent trans comic book coming-of-age movie The People's Joker finally gets a North American theatrical release from Altered Innocence beginning Friday, April 5th in... Continue Reading →
Some of my favorite films feel like pulpy fever dreams. Think of Stanley Kubrick or Brian De Palma at their best or the early 20th century dime novels and you’ll get a sense of the otherworldly, heightened tone I gravitate towards. Consider my surprise then when Rose Glass, who made a little splash in 2019... Continue Reading →
Back in the 80s and 90s there was a subset of gentile queerness that could best be summed up with three words, “Merchant Ivory gays,” after the lavish cinematic costume dramas released by independent film company Merchant Ivory Productions. Now producer Ismail Merchant, director James Ivory, writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, composer Richard Robbins and their... Continue Reading →
Multiple Emmy-nominated Saturday Night Live writer Julio Torres first caught my attention as an actor with his absorbingly understated supporting turns in comedies on film and television such as The Other Two, Together Together, Shrill, Search Party, and more recently a characterful voice performance that further queered the animated movie Nimona. Making those roles his... Continue Reading →
The new queer cinema of the 1990s gets reborn courtesy of one of its OGs, Todd Verow. With his micro-budget new thriller, You Can’t Stay Here, co-written by longtime collaborator James Derek Dwyer, that raw, confrontational, punk sensibility feels like a breath of fresh air in our current stale, over-processed cinematic environment. Harkening back to... Continue Reading →
Executive producer Ryan Murphy's FX anthology series FEUD returns with its second season, Capote Vs. The Swans, which enthralling explores the rift between the celebrated American author and his high society New York friends after he wrote about their lives in a thinly veiled fictionalization published in the November 1975 issue of Esquire, entitled La... Continue Reading →
