In the early 1960s, many of the now-iconic folk singers earned their followings and made reputations in the smoky, cramped clubs in New York’s Greenwich Village. This is where you could hear Bob Dylan, Joan Baez or Joni Mitchell, and be close enough to see the spittle on their lips. As history usually works, we…
OUT IN THE LINE-UP: A Film about Homosexuality in Surfing from Gay Surfers on Vimeo. Being gay in the line-up has always been something you don’t mention. Ridicule, threats, bashing and ostracism were often what was at stake. For the first time, members of the surfing community, both professional and amateur, have spoken on camera…
ARC Entertainment will be releasing Contest on DVD Dec. 17. Contest premiered on Cartoon Network Oct. 6 in conjunction with National Bullying Prevention Month in order to inspire an open discussion between kids, parents and educators about the issue of bullying. Cartoon Network’s Stop Bullying: Speak Up initiative continues to shed a light on this…
Bridegroom tells the emotional journey of Shane and Tom, two young men in a loving and committed relationship that was cut tragically short by a misstep off the side of a roof. The story of what happened after this accidental death– of how people without the legal protections of marriage can find themselves completely shut…
STOCKHOLM — Live and Let Love is a message to the Russian LGBT-people that they are not alone, but also an urging to Russian leaders to choose love instead of hate and fear when making laws to rule over people’s lives, their human rights, and above all, their love. Oct. 6, Live and Let Love will…
Remember the old Saturday matinee at the neighborhood movie house, where we and our schoolmates viewed the latest news, cartoons, previews, serial and double features, plus popcorn, a drink and candy for 50 cents? Today, after you buy your surprisingly reasonable matinee or senior ticket and arrive at the refreshment counter, your mouth will drop…
A few weeks ago, I was having lunch with a friend of mine who has been working at a large Hollywood studio. The conversation came around to closeted actors and actresses, and my friend repeated what another friend told her, “Vin Diesel? Oh, she’s a lady.” I laughed, not because it would be funny if…
dvr this Turner Classic Movies, Friday, Sept. 13, 9:15 p.m. Two hundred years from now, the survivors of humanity all live in a domed city and their lives are totally controlled by a computer that, among other unsavory things, kills every person when he or she becomes 30, though they think being vaporized means they…
Lee Daniels’ The Butler One of the problems with starting a movie with the words “Inspired by a true story” written on the screen is that most people will focus on “true story” and not on “inspired by.” That phrase opens Lee Daniels’ The Butler – which I will refer to as The Butler from…
The Canyons To say the least, it’s rare that a movie with a budget of $250,000 becomes the subject of a 7,600 word article in The New York Times Magazine. It makes a little more sense, when you know that The Canyons was directed by Paul Schrader, who wrote Taxi Driver and Raging Bull and…
