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RAGE Reviews: Celebrating Pride at the Movies

by chris carpenter Rocketman–the appropriately flamboyant, occasionally surreal Elton John biopic–may be the gayest movie of the summer (at least from a major studio) but its hardly the only one.  As Pride month/season gets underway, there are a number of new and re-released LGBTQ movies definitely worth checking out. But first let’s talk about Rocketman, now […]

Full Release! 2019 Summer Movie Preview

by tim parks – Last year provided moviegoers with some quality LGBTQ representation with films like The Favourite, Boy Erased, The Miseducation of Cameron Post, Call Me By Your Name and Love, Simon. There was Bohemian Rhapsody of course, with its knock out performance by Rami Malek, which nabbed him a Best Actor Oscar. Naturally, […]

Brown & Out Fest V: Celebrating The Latinx Experience

by joel martens – What do the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall Riots in New York City, the 50th Anniversary of the passing of gay icon Judy Garland, and National LGBTQ Pride Month have in common you might ask? Well, for CASA 0101 Theater in Boyle Heights, each of these events represent a part of […]

RAGE Reviews: Sexual Politics

by chris carpenter “Is sex political?,” a reporter asks the openly gay, real-life filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini in a newly-released biopic.  “Of course,” Pasolini replies, “There’s nothing that isn’t political.”  This query opens Pasolini, Abel Ferrara’s 2014 movie that is only now being released in the US thanks to Kino Lorber.  It opens this weekend in […]

Newport Beach Film Fest: Celebrating “The Big 20” and Queer Shorts Galore

by chris carpenter – Smile for the camera Newport Beach Film Festival, it’s your birthday! Begun as a small-scale event initially, NBFF will be celebrating 20 years of stellar growth in local repute and international recognition from Thursday, April 25 through Thursday, May 2. Each year, the festival strives to bring to Orange County the […]

MAPPLETHORPE

A LIFE IN CONTRAST Documenting a Legacy with Director Ondi Timoner ~ by joel martens ~ To say Robert Mapplethorpe was provocative is an understatement. Great cutting-edge artists often are, because they challenge social norms. For those of us who remember his work, early career, and the surrounding controversies around his photography, that reality isn’t […]

TROYE SIVAN

HIS LIFE IN BLOOM Oh My My My ~by joel martens ~ What where you doing when you were 23? If you were like the rest of us, you were probably still trying to figure out what it is that you wanted to do with your life. Maybe close to finishing college, looking to get […]

THE SHAPE OF WATER: Reinventing A Childhood Classic – Del Toro Style

by chris carpenter –  As a boy, acclaimed writer-director Guillermo del Toro thought the title monster of his favorite movie, The Creature From The Black Lagoon, and the human woman with whom it was smitten should have swum off into the sunset together. Del Toro has now taken a step toward correcting this perceived slight […]

THE TRANSNATION FILM FEST: Embracing the “T”

by chris carpenter –  One could argue that the last thing Los Angeles needs is another film festival. However, last year’s inaugural TransNation Film Festival succeeded as a more in-depth exploration of our trans community than most LGBTQ events have offered to date. Presented by St. John’s Well Child and Family Center, a community health […]