Reviews Lovecraft Country Episode 7 Recap: “I Am” By: Gena Radcliffe Hippolyta takes an adventure through time in a moving, powerful and mind bending episode.
Festivals Reeling 2020: “Give or Take” buries its gays under suffocating tidiness By: B.L. Panther This queer drama is rife with potential and strong performances, but squashes its promise with too-neat storytelling.
Reviews Netflix gives “The Boys in the Band” a vibrant encore By: Theo Estes Starring the 2018 Broadway revival cast, director Joe Mantello gives the 1968 gay classic new life.
Festivals Reeling 2020: “Keyboard Fantasies” plays the song of a Black trans musician By: B.L. Panther Beverly Glenn-Copeland's life and music come to light in this illuminating doc about the cult avant-garde musician.
Reviews “The Secret Society of Second-Born Royals” inherits its charms from better franchises By: Michael Snydel Disney+ tries to blend its love of princes and princesses with its new focus on superheroes, with mixed results.
Reviews “Agents of Chaos” digs up the Russian troll farms that decided 2016 By: Ashley Lara Alex Gibney's latest work of docu-journalism details the misinformation campaigns holding our social media (and sense of trust in institutions) hostage.
Anniversaries “He’s Not Funny Anymore”: “Stardust Memories” at 40 Misinterpreted upon its release, Woody Allen's 1980 comedy is a worthy riff on the likes of 8 1/2 and Sullivan's Travels.
Reviews Great British Baking Show Episode 1 Recap: Battenbergs and busts, oh my! By: Ashley Lara The UK's favorite bake-off arrives just in time to save a tumultuous 2020 with charming antics and tumbled cakes.
Anniversaries “Welcome to your sophomore year!”: “My Bodyguard” at 40 Something of an unsung classic, Tony Bill's directorial debut precedes and exceeds its John Hughes peers of the era.
Reviews “A Wilderness of Error” is a grim, overblown docudrama By: Megan Sunday FX's new docuseries based on Errol Morris' book is engaging at points but fails to fully defend its own point.
Festivals NYFF 58: “Nomadland” is a staggering look at the new American West By: Clint Worthington Chloé Zhao presents another yearning, lyrical look at life on the margins, anchored by a profoundly moving Frances McDormand performance.
Festivals Reeling 2020: “These Thems” is an accessible Queer 101 comedy By: B.L. Panther The queer-centered YouTube series gets compiled into a winsome feature that works best as a Queer Culture primer.
Festivals NYFF58: “Days” finds connection in the mundane By: Gena Radcliffe The extremely slow pacing of Tsai Ming-liang’s study in loneliness pays off with subtle tenderness.
Festivals NYFF 58: “David Byrne’s American Utopia” is an explosion of music and humanism By: Clint Worthington Spike Lee captures all the vibrancy and social import of Byrne's rightly-acclaimed Broadway show.
Festivals Reeling 2020: “Breaking Fast” delivers the Muslim queer stories we’ve been starving for By: B.L. Panther Mike Mossalam's debut feature is a vibrant mosaic of Queer Arab Muslim-American life.
Reviews “Tehran” spins a striking tale of modern spycraft despite a wobbly start By: Justin Harrison Moshe Zonder, Dana Eden, and Maor Kohn's new espionage series boasts solid acting and craft in the face of some wonky storytelling.
Festivals NYFF58: “Night of the Kings” is a moving tribute to what keeps us alive By: Gena Radcliffe Philippe Lacôte directs a unique film about a young man who’s forced to tell stories to save his own life.
Reviews Congrats, Glenn Danzig, “Verotika” is one of the worst movies ever made By: Gena Radcliffe Resist with all your might the urge to watch this cheap, ugly “erotic horror” anthology just to see how bad it is.
Anniversaries “Se7en” can still keep you up at night, even after 25 years David Fincher's bleak, gruesome murder mystery packed a punch audiences have never forgotten.
Festivals NYFF58: “MLK/FBI” is a damning look at the U.S. government By: Jonah Koslofsky Sam Pollard's latest documentary is a dense look at Martin Luther King Jr. and the Hoover administration's attempts to silence him.
Anniversaries This isn’t Camp. This is holy water!: “Showgirls” at 25 Paul Verhoeven's infamous 1995 satire isn't Camp going by Susan Sontag's definition, but it is one of the great American movies.