His Brother’s Keeper: Steve James’ Stevie
The ills of this wounded Everyman may be beyond healing.
Steven Spielberg: A Jew in America: Deconstructing Catch Me If You Can
“If only I knew then what I know now.”
An Unclaimed Country: The Austrian Image in American Film and the Sociopolitics of The Sound of Music
On cliche, culture, and locating national identity in Wise’s epic musical
Directors · Exploitation & Erotica · Genres · Writers & Critics
Dancing with Werewolves: John Sayles in Roger Corman’s Hollywood
It Came from New World Pictures!
Some Bark, No Bite: The Mouse That Roared on DVD
Strangelove gets sweet
Fists and Feathers: Madame Satã Reviewed
Don’t mess with Madame
Shalom? Auf Wiedersehen! Werner Herzog’s Invincible
“Invincible” Herzog does it again
Documentaries · Festivals & Awards · LGBT & Queer · Uncategorized
Put the Camera on Us! Documentaries at the 2003 San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
Reality cinema celebrates homos of this year and yesteryear
Actors & Personalities · LGBT & Queer · Reviews
Angela’s Lashes: Charles Busch’s Die Mommie Die!
Stage vet Charles Busch does glam for camp movie
The Wave Breaks: Star Danish Directors Fail to Translate
From the regional to the international and back in a few short years
Of Psychotic Environments and Corporate Hallucinations: The Animatrix on DVD
Masters of anime riff on The Matrix in this sizzling collection of nine shorts
Leni’s Body Beautiful: Forty Years of Riefenstahl’s Olympic Gaze in the James Bond Title Credits
In the beginning there was Leni, and Leni begat Robert and Maurice, who begat the Bond title sequences.
What’s Rita in the Hay Worth?: Fred finds out in You’ll Never Get Rich
Fred finds out in You’ll Never Get Rich
Unintentional Camp and the Image of Will Smith: Camp — and coded queerness — finds a surprisingly happy home in the films of Will Smith
Camp and coded queerness finds a surprisingly happy home in the films of Will Smith
Together Again for the First Time: Movies Holding Mirrors Up to Movies
Imitation: great for flattery, bad for art
Documentaries · DVD & Blu-ray · Music & Musicals · Reviews
The Sound of Jazz, the Sound of Gene: New DVDs offer rare TV appearances by jazz greats Billie Holiday, Gene Krupa, Coleman Hawkins, and Benny Goodman
New DVDs offer rare TV appearances by jazz greats Billie Holiday, Gene Krupa, Coleman Hawkins, and Benny Goodman. But where’s Thelonious?
Queer Quickies: Random Short Reviews from The Slaughter Rule to Frida to Hell House
Hits and misses from the arthouse to the grindhouse
How to Turn One’s Back on a Tyrant: Part Two
The opposite of realism is not fantasy, but disappointment
Actors & Personalities · Exploitation & Erotica · LGBT & Queer · Reviews
Sex in Shangri-La: Wakefield Poole on DVD
“No top, no bottom. Just two men discovering each other.”
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