Directed by Nicholas Stoller and written by Nicholas Stoller and Billy Eichner, Bros is the first gay romantic comedy from a major studio featuring an entirely LGBTQ principal cast to be released widely. Unfortunately it drew in less than half its production cost during its opening weekend, despite many glowing reviews. It really is as …
Rocketman (2019)
The story of Elton John’s rise to fame from his love-starved boyhood after he partners with Bernie Taupin and at first keeps his homosexuality under wraps.
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood (2017)
Unrated. Running time: 1 hour 38 min. I have ambivalent feelings about Matt Tymauer’s documentary film, based on Scotty Bower’s tell-all book Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars. This is certainly different from his previous film about the Manhattan urban activist Jane Jacobs, Citizen Jane: Battle for …
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Freeheld (2015)
Laurel, a NJ cop, falls in love with Stacie, a mechanic, but when Laurel is terminally ill, she has to fight her superiors for Stacie to receive her pension benefits.
Match (2014)
When famous ballet teacher Tobi Powell is interviewed by two out of towners, it becomes evident that their agenda is far darker than what they had told him.
The Imitation Game (2014).
I’m giving a 5-star recommendation to this fascinating film about code-breaking in WWII and the challenges of secrecy. Click the movie’s title to read my entire review.
Kill Your Darlings (2013)
Set in the early 1940s, this is the story of how Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and William S Burroughs met at Columbia Un. and began what was to become The Beat Generation. It is also the tale of a murder that implicated them all.