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Cinespastic: Gypsy
Gypsy Rose Lee In the opinion of many (including myself) in theatre circles, Gypsy is one of the great American musicals, if not the single greatest American musical. It is the story of how the famous...
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Cinespastic: Epically Gay
Watching the Oscars this week reminded me of the glut of epic films that have dotted Hollywood history. Many of these movies ultimately lack the punch of greatness outside of some beautiful sweeping...
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Cinespastic: LGBT Film at the Environmental Film Festival
Tropical Malady, courtesy of the Environmental Film Festival © Strand Releasing As I’ve touched on before in this column, there are countless film festivals taking place all over the United States and...
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Cinespastic: The Passing of a Legend
Elizabeth Taylor at the American Film Festival of Deauville (Normandy, France) in September 1985, by Roland Godefroy. This week, we lost one of the great classic Hollywood actresses and a constant...
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Cinespastic: Mildred Pierce Returns
Joan Crawford as Mildred Pierce Last Sunday, HBO premiered the first two installments of its five part miniseries, Mildred Pierce, to great interest both for its revisitation of a classic Hollywood...
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Cinespastic: Murder Most Entertaining
Am I the only nerd out there who is totally excited about Scream 4? Maybe it’s nostalgia for the late 90s, but I always thought the Scream franchise was at the top of the slasher genre. It had a...
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Film: Queer Hip-Hop Artist & Filmmaker Kalil Cohen, “Metahuman”
Filmmaker & Hip-Hop performer Kalil Cohen, also known as Metahuman, c. Liz Acosta, Happyland Photography Submission by Ofelia Del Corazon Crossposted from http://mommyfiercest.com with permission....
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Cinespastic: Scre4m
He's baaaaccckkk... Last week I went on a brief rant about my love of the Scream movies and my anticipation of Scream 4, or as they write it, Scre4m. So this week, I would like to continue that rant...
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Friday Staff Survey: Time to Escape
A little escapism never did anyone wrong, right? Do you ever find yourself in just another boring day, staring at the walls of your cubicle and gaydreaming away about the exciting life you were just...
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Cinespastic: Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
Uncle Boonmee film poster Last month, I wrote a review of Thai film director Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s beautiful 2004 film Tropical Malady. I recently had the opportunity to see his latest film, the...
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Film Review: Clint Eastwood’s High Plains Drifter
c. Wikimedia Commons I make a point of not watching Westerns sober. The genre just makes more sense with a thin warm film of alcohol – watching people, by and large bastards, flaunt their pettiness, by...
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Cinespastic: Going to the Chapel
The cast of Bridesmaids What happens when you mix raunch comedy with a chick-flick? Bridesmaids. The new Judd Apatow-produced, Kristen Wiig-starring (and co-written) film, Bridesmaids, is, however, due...
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New York City: FILM: Yves Saint Laurent, A Life Shared
This post submitted by James Davalos, TNG contributor The synergy of fine art and fashion is making its way downtown with different romantic twist. The IFC Center and the Paris Theatre have debuted a...
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Cinespastic: Summer Lovin’
Ah, it seems like summer is finally upon us. Maybe some of you in other places have been warm for awhile, but we just finally got there in Chicago, and everyone is out and about in droves. Two of my...
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Cinespastic: Being Alive
This April, the New York Philharmonic staged a concert version of Stephen Sondheim’s great 1970 musical Company that was recorded and is currently being shown in movie theaters across the country. Next...
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Film: Why Are We Still Haunted by the Boys in the Band?
Crossposted with permission from Mark S King of My Fabulous Disease. View the original post here. When I was 15 years old, I couldn’t wait to attend a local community theater production of The Boys in...
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Cinespastic: Kickstart a Great Idea
You’ve heard of Kickstarter.com by now? It’s a wonderful fundraising tool for creative projects. If you don’t know about it, check it out. The basis of it is this: a project is posted and has a certain...
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Cinespastic: Movies at the Workplace
My fellow workplace friends: I have a query for you. So let’s say you love your 9-5 job (which I do), and you really like all the people you work with (like I do) — not a bad apple on the team — but...
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Cinespastic: Midnight in Paris
Midnight in Paris is the prolific Woody Allen’s 41st film, and simply one of the loveliest films he has made. It is funny, sweet and sentimental (in a good way), while still maintaining those...
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Gender Identity: The Women of the Harry Potter Universe
Crossposted with permission from Canonballblog. In anticipation of the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, Liz Feuerbach takes a look at the series’ leading lady and feminist,...
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Cinespastic: Miami Heat
I’m about to pass out here. It is so damn hot I don’t even know what else to do. I love the summer, truly I do, but this is just too much. We’re closing in on 100 degrees here in Chicago, I don’t know...
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Review: The Lisa Jackson Documentary
Submission by Logan K. Young, first-time contributor. Logan is a contributing writer at BLURT, Dusted and Everett True’s Collapse Board. He’s also written for Paste, Crawdaddy! and Altered Zones and...
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Cinespastic: West Side Story
I fell in love with West Side Story at an early age. My mother, who has been planning to wear a replica of Anita’s purple dress to my wedding one day (that is, if I don’t wear it) first introduced me...
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Film: Queers on Film: The Glass Closet and Gays Playing It Straight
Crossposted with permission from Canonball Blog’s James Worsdale A little over a week ago, Gawker’s Bryan Moylan put up a post calling out Luke Evans and his PR team for straight-washing him when he...
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Film: The Rise of Gay Naturalism
Weekend, Andrew Haigh, 2011 The creation of gay culture, for as long as something called “gay culture” has existed, has had as its primary driving force the desire for a queer utopia. Constrained by...
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