If you like Ed Helms then skip the lame The Hangover, Part 2 and rent Cedar Rapids, a most wonderful indie comedy that came out this winter, in which Ed Helms does a lot more than scream and wave his hands. He plays Tim, a naïve, almost childlike insurance agent visiting the big city for…
If you take a fairy tale and reinterpret it with ’80s music video clichés and the bitter lens of the fired director of Twilight, Catherine Hardwicke, you get the most ridiculous Red Riding Hood. Amanda Seyfried is the titular character who must figure out who in her medieval village is the werewolf killing her friends….
The highest-grossing and most accessible Coen Brothers movie is a remake of the classic John Wayne Western, and if you somehow missed it when it was in the theaters this winter, you must see it now. It is a perfect film, from Jeff Bridge’s crotchety Rooster Cogburn to Hailee Steinfeld’s stern and precocious Mattie Ross,…
Out May 31 Two fastidious gay New Yorkers – one Martha Stewart’s former on-air doctor, the other an ad executive and ex-drag queen – decide to move to the country, start a farm and star in a reality show about it all. If it sounds like Queer Eye for the Straight Guy meets The Simple…
San Diego’s local film publicists refuse to show the latest edition of Pirates of the Caribbean for critics, and I’m not terribly sad about it. If I’m going to see Johnny Depp do drag, I’d much rather it be in Before Night Falls, in which he plays, in one of his two roles, a transgendered…
You know we’ve come a long way when a teenage lesbian like Justin Bieber can be the biggest teen idol since Britney Spears arrived in 1997. Bieber’s famed haircut has become iconic, and you can see it on baby dykes from Park Slope to Silverlake. Meanwhile the Justin Bieber sound has crossed over from queer…
Felicity Huffman was nominated for an Oscar for playing Bree, a neurotic male-to-female transsexual who drives cross-country with the son she fathered but never knew. As amazing as the performance was, the film itself is more than one great impression. It’s also an enormously sweet and moving story about the relationship between a parent and…
Based on Harvey Fierstein’s Tony-winning trilogy of three one-act plays, this classic film focuses on the life and loves of Arnold Beckoff (Feirstein), a Jewish torch-song-singing drag queen struggling in post-Stonewall, pre-AIDS New York. Feirstein is hilarious and heart breaking, and Anne Bancroft (as his mother) and Matthew Broderick (as one of the boyfriends) are…
The King’s Speech is out this week on DVD, and if you missed it in the theater, and you need to see it so that you can say you saw it, then, well, do that. But as I’ve said before: Yawn. So, instead, I suggest you do the opposite, and either see or re-see one…
The latest Harry Potter movie and Country Strong are both out on DVD this week, but if you’re looking for something a bit more gay, I suggest picking up a somewhat forgotten classic, Beautiful Thing. The story of a working class British boy coming out and falling in love, and featuring a soundtrack of Mama…
