Clara Bow, known as the “It” Girl, stars in the appropriately titled It. Part III of Moguls & Movie Stars, A History of Hollywood, “The Dream Merchants,” narrated by Christopher …
LGBT Film
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“Gay zombie porn”: Bruce La Bruce’s L.A. Zombie, in which gay porn star François Sagat is a Los Angeles zombie (or a schizophrenic homeless man?) who uses (really kinky?) sex …
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Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence with 1970s pop icon David Bowie. He stands in the courtroom, fully inhabiting his allotted space behind the bar, clad in fatigues and a rakish scarf, …
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Marion Davies in King Vidor’s Show People. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, which decades ago was the most financially stable of the Hollywood studios, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on Wednesday. MGM – initially …
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Future predictions: Semih Kaplanoglu’s Bal / Honey for the Oscars? Some of the 65 movies vying for the 2011 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar are obvious choices. For instance, Semih …
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Is Vince Vaughn gay “joke” in The Dilemma bigotry disguised as humor? Vaughn is seen here with Queen Latifah. Is Vince Vaughn ‘gay’ joke in The Dilemma disguised anti-gay bigotry? …
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The Kids Are All Right box office: Lesbian family comedy-drama has no chance of reaching as high as Brokeback Mountain. Annette Bening and Julianne Moore star.
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Gay brothers’ taboo affair: Rafael Cardoso and João Gabriel Vasconcellos in Aluízio Abranches’ From Beginning to End. Aluízio Abranches’ Do Começo ao Fim / From Beginning to End, Donatella Maiorca’s …
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Gay indie actor Matthew Montgomery and Steve Callahan, Role/Play. Described as “an unheralded superstar in the American independent gay filmmaking scene,” gay indie actor Matthew Montgomery, among whose credits are …
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Howl: James Franco as Allen Ginsberg with Aaron Tveit. Howl movie: James Franco as gay poet Allen Ginsberg to open Outfest Documentarians Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman’s Howl, their debut …
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Wholesome silent era superstars Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks drawn by Vargas (probably best known for his drawings of naked and semi-naked women in Playboy), Motion Picture Long before Robert Pattinson, …
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Bugs Bunny & Pepe le Pew: Chuck Jones remembered. Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Pepe Le Pew, Wile E. Coyote, the Road Runner, and numerous other characters created or …
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Gay Argentina love story & sexually explicit ‘Taxi zum Klo’: Torino GLBT Film Festival Américo Ortiz de Zárate’s Otra historia de amor / Another Love Story (1986), Monika Treut’s My …
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Canada Quebec differences: Polytechnique (above, with Maxim Gaudette) vs. Xavier Dolan’s I Killed My Mother. Denis Villeneuve’s Polytechnique, about a lone gunman’s 1989 massacre of 14 women at Montreal’s École …
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Jeanette MacDonald, Ramon Novarro, The Cat and the Fiddle Beyond Paradise: The Life of Ramon Novarro is a film star biography I wrote several years ago. The book tells the …
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Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson comparison: Which Twilight star has come out on top after playing against type in two recent releases?
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The Runaways with Dakota Fanning. The Runaways reviews: Dakota Fanning & Kristen Stewart mostly well received Twilight Saga star Kristen Stewart’s role in The Runaways is actually subordinate to that …
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Robert Pattinson as Salvador Dali in Little Ashes. March 2 update: Robert Pattinson, wondering about what lies ahead after The Twilight Saga: Eclipse and The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn are …
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Easier with Practice with Brian Geraghty and Kel O’Neill. Easier with Practice, Kyle Patrick Alvarez’s feature-film debut based on an autobiographical article written by Davy Rothbart for GQ, has been …
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Lucy and Ethel lesbian (false) rumors: Lucille Ball and Vivian Vance in I Love Lucy. At the San Francisco Chronicle‘s blog/column The Collective Mind, Bob Bragman talks about the unearthing …
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Sundance movies: Anna Paquin and Josh Duhamel in The Romantics. As usual, the upcoming Sundance Film Festival will screen numerous world premieres; one of them is writer-director Galt Niederhoffer’s The …
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Mel Gibson’s revenge thriller Edge of Darkness opened today, Jan. 29. Directed by Martin Campbell and written by Academy Award winner William Monahan and Martin Bovell, the film marks Gibson’s …
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Gay Orthodox Jews in Haim Tabakman’s Eyes Wide Open (upper image); teens go wild in Ruben Östlund’s Involuntary (lower image). The 2010 Palm Springs International Film Festival, which was held …
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DGA Awards make history: Jeremy Renner in The Hurt Locker: Iraq War drama directed by Directors Guild Award nominee Kathryn Bigelow. (Image: Jonathan Olley / Summit Entertainment). Kathryn Bigelow (The …
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Michelle Monaghan and Mélanie Laurent + filthy Italian politics: Awards season surprising film critics’ winners + Best Original Song Oscar.
Manolo Cardona and Cristian Mercado in Javier Fuentes-León’s romantic, supernatural gay Peruvian drama Undertow. Robert Pattinson gay movie + incest & ghosts at Mundo Hispanico LGBT festival The 23rd edition …
Delphine Chanéac and Adrien Brody in Splice. Splice, the new film by Canadian director Vincenzo Natali, is a revitalizing standout in the long-suffering genre of sci-fi/horror. Instead of veering into …
Matt Bomer (White Collar), Steven Spielberg and Travis Barker at premiere of DreamWorks movie – company co-founded by Jaws director.
Anna Paquin, Cindy Lauper, Whoopi Goldberg, are some of those featured in a new PSA for the Give a Damn campaign, started by Lauper’s True Colors Fund which fights for …
Ricky Martin, best known for the song “Livin’ la Vida Loca,", has announced that he is a “fortunate homosexual.” Martin pretty much just confirmed what everyone knew or at least …
Noel Coward with Elizabeth Taylor on the set of Boom! (top); with Marlene Dietrich, 1937 (bottom) Noel Coward – playwright, composer, director, actor, (purported) spy, nationalist, propagandist, semi-closeted gay guy …
Kristen Stewart: “I’m not ‘playing a stripper.’ It’s really not a stripper movie at all. It sort of just opens your eyes about people that don’t have options. I know …