Dec
05
2008
Religion has long played an important role in the LGBT community, whether it was as a negative or a positive impact. One such must see lesbian film that has religious tones all throughout the movie is Damned if You Don’t. This movie, which is brilliant in its cinematography tones of black and white shots, was filmed two decades ago in 1987.
The main theme of the movie is based on a nun, as portrayed by Peggy Healey, and her livelihood in the convent. As many people know, nuns can not be sexually active, and must refrain from sexual tendencies as a part of worshiping God as well as giving respect to the church. Many nuns
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Dec
03
2008

Puhleez help us oh Lord! Not only must we fight the homophobic world at large, we have to be wary of homophobia in the guise of gay films! “Taboo” is just one such film. Luring us with its brilliant cinematography, costuming, set design, superb acting (for all except the lead); it’s ending leaves us with the message tht homosexuals must be murdered because they disturb society’s equilibrium. Hayuvn’t we hayud enough of this?
The year is 1865 - the location is Kyoto, Japan - and the scene is a samurai training school where new recruits are being tested with their fencing skills. These samurai warriors are to keep peace in a Kyoto which is being sorely tested
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Dec
01
2008
While some might quote the marketing headline, “Come Undone is a sexually charged and intelligent French film about two young guys in love - plenty of nudity, sex and substance!” ah think this ol’ Suthen Belle is goan to reveal her inner feathahz … Ah really don’t understay-und French films. Thay-uh always so … so … boring. So much “day-in-the-life” style and not enough DRAMA. An this queen needs her drama. Yes. Ta is a victim of American movie pablum.
Gorgeous bronzed bodies on the beaches of southern France and a passionate romance between two French teens are reason enough to see Come Undone, but this bittersweet film also has something poignant to say about
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Nov
29
2008
Twilight of the Golds, based on the (very brief Broadway play of the same name (The play and screenplay were written by (Jonathan Tolins), is an “issue” drama about Suzanne (Jennifer Beals), who learns that her unborn child will be gay. The film takes an intelligent approach to the “environment vs. heredity” debate. Something Ah believe we already know - being gay is as genetic as eye color!
The “problem” of being gay is sketchily addressed — it is even likened to a disease when Walter (Garry Marshall, his father, retorts that Fraser essentially is sick — but once viewers get over this hurdle, the film is
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Nov
27
2008
Ah thought Ah would love this Brit film called “Endgame”. It hayuz all the elements - “Official Selection” status from the Philly Gay & Lesbian Film Fest, a stunningly handsome boy, and the edgy darkness of a thriller.
“Endgame” stars Daniel Newman (oooo the English accent, the pouty lips, the body of Apollo! Ah’m in LOVE!) as Tom, a rent boy who is kept by the dashingly evil - and vile - George Norris (Mark McGann), a sado-masochistic gangster. Tom is kept in high style in a London flat filled with pop art and a bedroom set up, not only for sex, but also for blackmail with a hidden camera focused on the red silk bedsheets. Tom is being sucked down into a nasty scheme
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Nov
25
2008
Ah must first say that you MUST click the links and buy “Stonewall” title IMMEDIATELY. Not only is the film filled with Fabulousness - much like myself! - it is a dramatic and stirring tale about the most momentous moment (hmmm) in homosexual history!
Far from being a dry, fictionalized account of the people involved in the 1969 Stonewall Riots, this adaptation of Martin Duberman’s book is instead a rollicking musical drama that successfully blends gay history and queer fabulousness to wonderful effect.
This what-might-have-been-happening on the days
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Nov
21
2008
“Rights of Passage” is a taut, well-written and acted thriller from the acclaimed director of “Powder” (Victor Salva) a delves into issues of parenthood, masculinity, homophobia, childhood hurts, and one young man’s misdirected search for a father figure.
Del (the excellent Dean Stockwell) and his young lawyer son DJ (Robert Glenn Keith, the hunk in the gay short “Death in Venice California”) travel to their lakeside cabin to fish and talk. When they get there, Del’s estranged gay son, Campbell (well-acted by the hunkalicious Jason Behr and star of “Roswell”), is unexpectedly
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Nov
19
2008
BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN is much more than a gay cowboy movie, even though many straight folks are fond of describing it as such. And given that I was starting to feel like the only queer dude in the world that had not seen this much talked about (and admired) flick: I finally made myself watch it on DVD recently. And it was the saddest love story I’ve ever seen.
I knew one of the characters died. And I’d also heard about the quite moving scene with the shirt (I won’t say more than that–just in case there still might be another soul out there that has not seen this film yet). But all my friends failed to tell me about the gay bashing scene. I mean, the movie was
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Nov
17
2008
Damn, I’m really on a roll (as far as queer flicks are concerned). I’ve actually seen both CAPOTE and BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN on DVD. The special features alone–made me glad I bought both flicks.
I found the film CAPOTE — both moving and maddening. The performances were all excellent. And I agree the lead actor, Philip Seymour Hoffman, deserved the Academy Award he won. But the so-called revelations about the REAL Truman Capote (why he never wrote another major book after In Cold Blood, plus his eventual self-destruction from too much
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Nov
15
2008
“Steam” is a slow, sensuous meandering journey both in its cinematic pacing and in the lead character, Francesco’s, coming out, coming home story. For a movie about hamam’s - Turkish steam baths - there’s a paucity of nudity!
Francesco (played by the GEORGEOUS Alessandro Gassman) and his wife Marta ( Francesca D’Aloja) run a successful interior design firm in Rome. But their marriage is on the rocks, with Marta, feeling neglected, secretly carrying on an affair with their mutual business
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