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Category: FILM


“The Revenant” explores the cold beauty of a harsh world

January 5, 2016

January 5, 2016 6

BY JOHN PAUL KING  |  With a title like “The Revenant,” one might expect the newest work by Alejandro G....

Best LGBT Films of 2015 (in my humble opinion)

January 5, 2016

January 5, 2016 12

BY DAVID-ELIJAH NAHMOD  |  “Best” of course is a relative term. From my vantage point, these are the best LGBT...

Is the time right for “Hateful Eight”

January 5, 2016

January 5, 2016 12

BY STEVE ERICKSON  |  When the Fraternal Union of Police spokesman accused Quentin Tarantino of hypocrisy for making violent films...

Trumbo is a well-timed reminder

November 23, 2015

November 23, 2015 453

BY JOHN PAUL KING  |  When most younger Americans hear the phrase “Cold War,” it likely conjures vague impressions of...

The Danish Girl is a sensual trans awakening set in Paris

November 23, 2015

November 23, 2015 115

BY STEVE ERICKSON  |  Some critics have spent the past few years complaining about the lack of mainstream films depicting...

Todd Haynes strikes a 1950s Hollywood pose with Carol

November 5, 2015

November 5, 2015 148

BY STEVE ERICKSON  |  Conservatives like to romanticize the ‘50s and pre-counterculture ‘60s as a period of widespread prosperity when...

Burnt is a masterful and humbling journey toward sobriety

November 5, 2015

November 5, 2015 139

BY JOHN PAUL KING  |  In the opening minutes of “Burnt,” we see its central character, Adam Jones, a former...

North Hollywood film festival takes on Sobriety

October 22, 2015

October 22, 2015 223

For those film buffs who have a special interest in the field of recovery, the REEL Recovery Film Festival begins...

Horror Movies to creep the pride right out of you

October 22, 2015

October 22, 2015 760

Halloween is coming up fast, a favorite holiday amongst LGBT folk- some refer to it as “Gay Christmas.”  In the...

Freeheld: A Romantic, gauzy history

October 8, 2015

October 8, 2015 7

⚫ BY STEVE WEINSTEIN  By all rights, “Freeheld” should have been the gay movie during the last quarter of the...