Adapted from Oscar-winning writer and filmmaker Dustin Lance Black's bestselling 2019 memoir, director Laurent Bouzereau's deeply moving and unexpectedly urgent feature documentary Mama's Boy debuts on HBO and HBO Max tonight, Tuesday, October 18th 2022. Traveling back to the places where he grew up with two brothers, Black explores his Southern conservative Mormon childhood roots,... Continue Reading →
NewFest 2022 Opening Night Film Review: Mama’s Boy ★★★1/2
NewFest's 34th annual New York LGBTQ+ Film Festival opened tonight with the world premiere of director Laurent Bouzereau's deeply moving and unexpectedly urgent adaptation of Oscar-winning writer and filmmaker Dustin Lance Black's 2019 best-selling memoir, Mama's Boy, which debuts on HBO and HBO Max on Tuesday, October 18th 2022. "Very soon, I promise you, you... Continue Reading →
Book Review: Mama’s Boy by Dustin Lance Black ★★★★
Dustin Lance Black’s memoir Mama’s Boy pulled up emotions I thought I’d long buried. The suffocating, terrifying fear that you live with, born from a mix of homophobia and religion, that infects introverted, creative gay boys. That unique blend of anxiety that comes from feeling that you are already broken and must hide behind a... Continue Reading →