Let’s face it, practically every queer person in show biz either has a Faye Dunaway story or wishes they had one. Gay gossip columnist Billy Masters even has an infamous feature called “Fayewatch” in which he more often than not details sightings of her erratic behavior. Instead of honoring the career of a true Hollywood... Continue Reading →
In the delectably queer (in every sense of the word) new HBO comedy series Fantasmas, creator-writer-director-star Julio Torres (Los Espooskys, Problemista) plays a thirty-something creative named Julio Torres. He lives in a heightened, only-ever-so-slightly surreal version of New York City with his trusty robot assistant Bibo (voiced by Joe Rumrill), an aspiring actor eyeing human... Continue Reading →
Today sees the return of one the freshest, funniest, and most unassumingly revolutionary series on television, Sort Of, for its third and final season. The GLAAD Award-nominated, Canadian Screen and Peabody-winning comedy is created by its showrunners and executive producers, Bilal Baig and Fab Filippo. Baig also stars in the Toronto-set series as the endearing... Continue Reading →
Emmy, Grammy, SAG, and Tony Award-winning actress Cynthia Nixon had already directed three Off-Broadway productions—Rasheeda Speaking, Steve, and MotherStruck!—when she sat in the director's chair on the first season of the Sex and the City spin-off series And Just Like That.... Nixon follows that assured television directorial debut with two back-to-back episodes as director on... Continue Reading →
If you've seen the Emmy, Peabody, and GLAAD Award-winning We're Here on HBO/Max, you'll already know that its creators Johnnie Ingram and Stephen Warren do reality television differently. They're not interested in contrived drama or arguments, or endless recapping, instead they cut to the emotional core of the stories they're telling, using the genre in... Continue Reading →
Following its award-winning world premiere at Sundance in January, directors Kristen Lovell and Zackary Drucker’s outstanding feature The Stroll went on to open London's prestigious LGBTQ+ film festival BFI Flare, and last week the filmmakers were recognized with the John Schlesinger Award for Best Director of a Documentary at the Provincetown International Film Festival. Rich,... Continue Reading →
N.B. Review contains spoilers of And Just Like That... episodes 1-4. In the opening moments of the first episode of And Just Like That..., streaming now on HBO Max, the absence of an integral part of Sex and the City, a certain "sexy siren in her sixties", is immediately addressed. "Where's the fourth Musketeer?" As... Continue Reading →
