Life Like is what you get when you take a sexy, sci-fi, erotic thriller and remove the thrills and most of the sex and dumb down the sci-fi. What plods along for most of the 90min running time is a muted exploration of humanity before it completely loses the plot with an utterly ridiculous twist... Continue Reading →
Debuting on HBO on Thursday April 23rd a six episode unscripted series, We’re Here, takes three Drag Race stars, Bob the Drag Queen, Eureka O'Hara, and Shangela Laquifa Wadley off the runway on to a cross-country roadtrip to stage one-night-only drag shows, transforming a diverse array of local residents into fierce queens, thereby empowering them... Continue Reading →
The very existence of Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles feels subversive. Comic creators Mark Russell (writer) and Mike Feehan (pencils) took classic Hanna-Barbera characters and used them as a platform to talk about institutionalised homophobia in the 50s with harsh echoes for today. Reframing the pink, theatre loving, fourth-wall breaking cougar (clearly coded gay... Continue Reading →
Rachel Mason’s Circus of Books had its world premiere at 2019's Tribeca Film Festival where is was acquired by Netflix. After a successful festival run it launches on the streaming service on Wednesday April 22nd 2020. The documentary's lead subjects, Karen and Barry Mason, are the filmmaker’s parents and the unlikely owners of the titular long-running Los Angeles gay porn... Continue Reading →
The beautiful thing about pop culture is that everyone has their opinions and everyone is right. I think Forrest Gump is the worst Best Picture Oscar winner of all time, whereas you may love its celebration of lowered standards! See? We’re both right! I say this to prepare you for my review of 15 Years,... Continue Reading →
New York writer Peter Kispert’s debut collection of short stories, I Know You Know Who I Am, is an interesting, frustrating and frankly disheartening look at gay life. Though unconnected, these stories and snippets paint a world of insecurity, dishonesty and dystopia covered in a gloss of language. Deception is the core theme running through... Continue Reading →
By now, most people know that what gets presented on social media may often differ greatly from the harsh reality. We pose for multiple selfies until we get “the one”. We fill our feeds with fabulous vacations, scrumptious meals, breathtaking hikes, wondrous nights at the theatre, and more. Occasionally, someone may overshare about their misery... Continue Reading →
Bright Light Bright Light’s (Rod Thomas) new single and video, directed by Tyler Jensen, This Was My House are wildly prescient during our current quarantined global existence. Scenes of Rod (and his strategically placed disco ball) in his apartment juxtapose with a veritable rainbow of out-of-doors’ liberation scenes culminating in some very ‘non-social distancing’ dancing... Continue Reading →
Maybe expectations were too high for The Death & Life of John F. Donovan. It looked like the stars were literally aligning for a while, as queer filmmaker Xavier Dolan started working on his first English language feature. The large cast included a collection of talented, swoon-worthy men (Kit Harrington, Nicholas Hoult, Chris Zykla), acclaimed... Continue Reading →
The one advantage of COVID-19 mandated lockdown is the time to start working my way through the ever-expanding “LGBTQ+ reading pile”, which brought me to a book I’ve been meaning to start for almost a year now - Iolanda Zanfardino’s beautiful Midnight Radio. Midnight Radio drops in on the lives of four people around the... Continue Reading →
