Reviews of films
Adam est Ève (Adam is Eve) has all the trappings of a broad Hollywood farce but this 1954 film surprises by how thoughtfully and respectfully it treats it’s trans main character. This dichotomy becomes clear early on. In what seems … Continue reading LGBT Media: Adam est Ève (Adam Is Eve) (1954)
A lesbian couple finds an abandoned baby. Erin (Ali Liebert) wants to adopt it. Her wife Kelly (Katherine Barrell) does not. But she’ll be badgered and shamed into pretending she does. The Christmas Baby is the second Hallmark film to … Continue reading LGBT Media: The Christmas Baby (2025)
Shinya Suzuki (Ryoma Takeuchi), a fiery Latin Dancer, trains with Shinya Sugiki (Keita Machida), an icy Ballroom Dancer. The upcoming 10 Dance competition requires they master each other’s techniques. 10 Dance is adapted from the manga by Satoh Inoue. Class … Continue reading LGBT Movies: 10 Dance (2025)
Where to begin with the tangled web which is The Beatles Anthology as released on Disney+ this year, and augmented by a new Anthology 4 album to join the original three, which have now been remixed and remastered? On paper, … Continue reading And In The End: The Beatles Anthology, 2025 Edition
Wicked: For Good, debates how to save a land that seems broken beyond repair. Do you battle fascists like Elphaba (Cynthia Erivo)? Cooperate like Glinda (Ariana Grande)? Indulge in cruelty like the Ozian Guards? Or, flee for unknown lands like … Continue reading Movie Review: Wicked: For Good (2025)
A Keller Christmas Vacation continues Hallmark’s attempt to shake up their romcom formula. Three siblings find love on a holiday cruise. They stress over careers, family secrets and past trauma. The crowded screenplay could stand to lose a subplot or … Continue reading LGBT Movies: A Keller Christmas Vacation (2025)
Kevin Glover’s Love Bites is a gay vampire softcore romcom. An amateur vampire hunter falls for his handsome target. Can love conquer all? Glover wrote the script for the stage. But filming on location, and releasing to VHS, proved more … Continue reading LGBT Movies: Love Bites (1988)
Colin Firth plays the neurotic owner of a cinema in Buenos Aires. He takes in a handsome American flat mate (Hart Bochner) and quickly becomes obsessed. The men begin a dangerous game. Martin Donovan co-wrote and directed Apartment Zero. The … Continue reading LGBT Movies: Apartment Zero (1988)
“Rest assured that I was on the internet within minutes registering my disgust throughout the world.” Continue reading Second Look: The Simpsons Movie
An activist (Diego Luna) and a window dresser (Tonatiuh) share a prison cell during Argentina’s military dictatorship. The dresser, Molina, copes by recounting the plot of her favorite film: Kiss of the Spider Woman. A musical fantasy starring a glamorous … Continue reading LGBT Movies: Kiss of the Spider Woman (2025)
I’ve been “reviewing” Hallmark’s Countdown to Christmas approximately for seven years which is another way of saying that I make unhealthy decisions. This year, I’ll be away during the airing of the first film of the season, and I won’t … Continue reading The Hallmark Countdown to Christmas 2025 Lineup
I’ve been attending Chicago’s International LGBTQ+ Film Festival for many years now. Last season I burnt myself out watching 18 features. This year I settled for a modest 7. Dreams in Nightmares (2025, US). Queer black friends go on a … Continue reading LGBT Movies: Reeling Festival 2025
Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor sing and smooch. What more could I want? Well… Some dialogue might help. The History of Sound belongs to a subgenre I call the brooding male romance. Two quiet men begin a near-wordless relationship. The … Continue reading LGBT Movies: The History of Sound (2025)
A gay activist has been outing closeted public figures. Now he’s getting death threats. He hires Donald Strachey for protection. Strachey is an openly gay detective in Albany, NY. He takes clients that the straight world ignores. But can he … Continue reading LGBT Movies: Third Man Out (2005)
The only fictional movie Paul McCartney has made as a solo artist, Give My Regards To Broad Street is, unfortunately, a mess. But for Beatles/McCartney fans, it can be an interesting mess. Some background. John Lennon had been assassinated in … Continue reading Movie Review: Give My Regards To Broad Street
In all honesty, this isn’t my second – or even third – time watching Hayao Miyazaki’s 2004 film Howl’s Moving Castle. I haven’t kept track, but it is very likely my fourth, or even fifth, watch. So then what’s different … Continue reading Second Look: Howl’s Moving Castle (2004)
Margaret Qualley plays Detective Honey O’Donahue. Her style and charm bring a touch of glamour to the bleak town of Bakersfield. Honey’s client has died in a car wreck. She suspects it was no accident. Honey Don’t! is the second … Continue reading LGBT Movies: Honey Don’t! (2025)
Blip watches two classic action films for the first time. Continue reading Late To The Party: The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Blip watches a powerful Akira Kurosawa classic for the first time. Continue reading Late To The Party: Ikiru
What goes through the minds of bullies? How many homophobes are closet cases? Why does queerness frighten the patriarchy? Claude Miller made his filmmaking debut in 1976 with The Best Way to Walk (La meilleure façon de marcher). The screenplay, … Continue reading LGBT Movies: The Best Way to Walk (1976)
To celebrate the non-occasion of Christmas in July, Hallmark has blessed us with FOUR films that are connected. A mini Hallmark cinematic universe, if you will. Basically, four single friends run a gift wrapping business that is busy all year … Continue reading Hallmark Christmas: Unwrapping Christmas: Olivia’s Reunion
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