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Alex Strangelove
Alex Strangelove is a gay teen comedy that thankfully is so much better than the squeaky clean over-sanitized rather drippy drama Love Simon that was loved by mainly teenage girls with the same passion that most gay men loathed it. For one thing, it’s rather raunchy and its protagonist Alex Truelove (Daniel Doheny) hasn’t yet…
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Queer Eye Season 2 is here & with a theme song from Betty Who
It’s been fifteen years since the Emmy Award-winning series Queer Eye for the Straight Guy first reached our screens. The series returned to Netflix in 2018 and despite some apprehensions on our part, this brand new of queer experts were an immediate hit. Ths new Fab Five: Antoni Porowski (Food & Wine), Bobby Berk…
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Maggie Smith never does anything ‘merely’.
Back in 1987 the celebrated British playwright Peter Shaffer followed up the enormous success of his Tony Award-winning play Equus with a new play called Lettice and Lovage that he wrote especially for Maggie Smith (in her pre Dame days). It centered around a flamboyant tour guide who loves to embellish the history behind an English country house and who…
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Hearts Beat Loud
Frank (Nick Offerman) is a charming aging Brooklyn hippie has just two ambitions left in life, One is to hang on to the failing record store that he has owned in Red Hook for the past 17 tears, and the second is to make music with his freshman medical student Sam (Kiersey Clemons) who doesn’t quite share his enthusiasm. This…
