dvr this Turner Classic Movies, Monday Nov. 19, 2:45 p.m. Julie Andrews is a woman pretending to be a man pretending to be a woman in Blake Edwards’ hilarious musical comedy. Set in 1930s Paris, Andrews plays an out of work singer who gets a gimmick by pretending to be a male female impersonator. Complications…
Turner Classic Movies Since it’s one of those weird gay movies from before Stonewall that I haven’t seen, I’m DVRing Reflections in a Golden Eye, a movie about repressed homosexual (and heterosexual) desire starring Marlon Brando and Elizabeth Taylor and directed by the great John Huston. Not considered Huston’s best movie by far (that would…
dvr this Fox, Thursday, Sept. 13, 9 p.m. While it’s become cool to hate Glee, I haven’t become cool. I still find the campy high school musical soap opera absurdly enjoyable, and it’s still the gayest thing on TV. Last season, the show’s biggest stars graduated, and just like every other TV show about high…
dvr this Turner Classic Movies, Sunday, Aug. 26, 11:30 p.m. King Vidor’s 1949 adaptation of Ayn Rand’s ridiculous novel about an ambitious, obnoxiously individualistic architect is high camp absurdity, which is fitting because of how influential Rand’s politics are among the most selfish of the current Republican leaders. Gary Cooper is Howard Roark, in arguably…
dvr this Showtime, repeated constantly starting July 9 Matt LeBlanc plays Matt LeBlanc in this hilarious satire of Hollywood sitcom production. Stephen Mangan and Tamsin Greig play Sean and Beverly Lincoln, two British TV writers whose hit BBC sitcom is being adapted for American audiences. Despite bearing no resemblance to the show’s original star (the…
dvr this Turner Classic Movies Saturday, June 23 10:15 a.m. Patty McCormack plays the most wicked child imaginable in this classic film that is both campy fun and downright scary. Director Mervyn LeRoy keeps the suspense taught and focused, giving the viewer ample time to identify and sympathize with Christine (Nancy Kelly), whose daughter Rhoda…
dvr this TCM, from 3 a.m., June 10, to 3 a.m., June 11 Judy Garland would be turning 90 June 10 this year, and TCM is honoring her birthday by showing all of her greatest musicals, from The Wizard of Oz to A Star Is Born to Easter Parade, and many more. While watching these…
dvr this Turner Classic Films, Monday, June 4, 2:30 p.m. At the top of the list of movies every gay man must see, Auntie Mame is one of the camp classics that is deliberately funny, garish and, yes, camp. Based on Patrick Dennis’ semi-autobiographical novel, the movie follows young Patrick as he becomes the ward…
dvd of the week I loved almost every second of Goon, the broad, dirty comedy about a Massachusetts bar bouncer who becomes the star enforcer in a Canadian hockey league. Playing stupid, loyal and truly good, Seann William Scott has never been better; while he’s usually very funny, he’s never been as deeply sympathetic or…
dvr this If you haven’t been watching Veep, you should just set the DVR and record all of the episodes that you can. HBO’s comedy Girls is getting much of the press, but Veep, in which Julia Louis-Dreyfus plays a harried vice president of the United States, is much, much funnier and much, much less…
