Don’t Look for Love
THE GAY BDSM biker movie Pillion fits surprisingly well into the romantic comedy formula, deftly interweaving comedy, drama, and romance. But those expecting a trope-heavy film about love and acceptance …
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Knives Out
WHETHER you’re queer or not, we all sometimes police our feelings or hold back our true selves, an internal struggle that can build anxiety and compel us to ask what it means to live truthfully. Gay writer-director Carmen Emmi explores these conundrums in his evocative feature debut, an edgy psychological thriller titled Plainclothes …
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Contact Sport
SINCE LATE LAST YEAR, social media have been abuzz about the Canadian TV series Heated Rivalry, a titillating tale of forbidden love between two professional hockey stars. In the show, Russian rebel Ilya Rozanov and Canadian choirboy Shane Hollander begin casually hooking up as teens shortly before their rookie season, then realize gradually, over a period of years, that they have genuine feelings for each other.
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Hard Corps
BOOTS Created by Andy Parker Netflix WHILE YOU WERE busy watching the sports romance Heated Rivalry as it crashed a Zamboni named Desire into a wall of spectators, you…More
The Best Little Boy on TV
FIFTY YEARS was a long time ago, but if Benito Skinner’s video series Overcompensating is any indication, the psychic lives of gay men in their twenties remain largely unchanged today.
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The Music Lovers
From the start, the film maintains a tone of emotional austerity, as an early voiceover by Chris Cooper, speaking as the much older Lionel, retrospectively identifies himself as a country boy raised on a Kentucky farm. He explains how his musical and vocal precocity sent him in 1917 to the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, where we see him join other male students at a local bar one evening. Amid friendly chatter and the haze of cigarette smoke, the atmosphere is further softened by the sounds of a pianist accompanying himself as he sings a folk ballad. Recognizing the song, Lionel quietly strolls over and watches the pianist.
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We Were There
THE EXHILARATION of visiting Queer Lens: A History of Photography at Los Angeles’ Getty Center begins at the museum’s front steps, which have been painted in rainbow stripes with the words “Celebrate Love” sweeping across them.
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Review of the films Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror, Sauna, Dreams (Sex Love), Jimpa, and Cactus Pears.
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Windows on Worlds Far from Home
Reviews of the movies: Some Nights I Feel Like Walking, The Wedding Banquet, The Rebrand, I’m Your Venus, and Heightened Scrutiny
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Love across Cultures, with a Twist
A NICE INDIAN BOY is an exuberant film as well as a touching celebration of unconventional romantic love defying expectations. Director Roshan Sethi’s film also touches upon issues of family loyalty, cultural misunderstanding, and intergenerational conflict.
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