Robin Williams. Robin Williams dead at 63: Oscar winner for Good Will Hunting Robin Williams, Best Supporting Academy Award winner for Gus Van Sant’s Good Will Hunting, was found dead…
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While focused on anti-gay bigotry in Uganda, Call Me Kuchu is a reminder that bigots and their potentially deadly hate are found all over the planet.
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Behind the Candelabra with Michael Douglas as Liberace and Matt Damon as Scott Thorson. ‘Behind the Candelabra’ HBO Hit: Liberace movie starring Michael Douglas and Matt Damon nearly breaks record…
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Daniel Radcliffe: Horns. Daniel Radcliffe ‘Horns’: ‘Equus’ to Capricorn Daniel Radcliffe has gone from Equus to Capricorn – or from horn-rimmed glasses to horns, period (apologies for the horrible pun)…
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Nov. 10 update: Billy Crystal will be replacing Eddie Murphy as Oscar host, who quite the show after Oscarcast co-producer Brett Ratner officially resigned from his post. There has been…
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American Primitive with Tate Donovan and Adam Pascal. July 19: The tale of a poor backwater family struggling against poverty, addiction, and assorted personal and social maladies, Tina Mabry’s Mississippi…
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As the title implies, BearManor Media’s The History of Independent Cinema covers the century-long development of – American – filmmaking outside the big-studio lots. Now, who were those independents? Well,…
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Tribute to Spanish filmmaker and painter Adorfo Arrieta (above, with Arrieta section programmer Donatello Fumarola), among whose cinematic efforts are El crimen de la pirindola and Jouet criminel. Photos: B.…
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Gay murder – and political life – that rocked California: Milk. The WGA Awards’ Best Original Screenplay pick was Milk, Dustin Lance Black’s narrative about openly gay San Francisco Board…
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Gay Sundance: I Love You Phillip Morris with Jim Carrey as the titular “I,” real-life con artist Steven Jay Russell, and Rodrigo Santoro as a wet and thirsty “friend.” Update:…
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A few weeks ago, when I began watching a screener of director-screenwriter-etc-etc. Brian Pera’s The Way I See Things, I had no idea what to expect. At first, I wasn’t…
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Good Will Hunting with Matt Damon. Gus Van Sant’s 1997 Best Picture nominee Good Will Hunting will be the next feature in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’…
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How to cure gay romantic woes: Love and Other Disasters. The 2008 London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival kicked off last night, March 27, with a screening of Alek Keshishian’s…
The Dictator trailer: Sacha Baron Cohen ‘The Dictator’ Red-Band Trailer: Funny? Earlier this year, Jean Dujardin and his fellow The Players producers reportedly had a September 2001 comic moment cut…
Darfur Movie: The Devil Came on Horseback. Darfur Now and The Devil Came on Horseback, both focusing on the ongoing Darfur crisis, will screen as part of the Academy of…
WALL-E. The Best Picture winner at the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, Disney/Pixar’s Andrew Stanton-directed WALL-E became the first feature-length animated film to top that particular category. Curiously, the…
Tiefland Leni Riefenstahl auction in England The BBC reports that 33 original photographs taken during the shooting of Tiefland (Lowlands), the last feature film directed by and starring Leni Riefenstahl,…