The First Temptation of Christ: not for anyone remotely religious
It’s only natural that the more people complain that a film is greatly offensive, the more we get intrigued enough to want to see it. Even more so when the whiners are the ultra-conservative religious who are up in arms about a comedy satire group that put their spin on celebrating the Baby Jesus’s … Continue reading
The Fruit Machine : how Canada persecuted the LGBT community in the past
For those of us in the LGBTQ community in the US who have recently been looking North enviously at the positive and refreshing liberating leadership of Prime Minister Trudeau may be shocked to discover that there is also long history of oppression that the Canadian authorities rigidly imposed on anyone suspected of being gay. … Continue reading
The Fruit Machine : two entirely different queer films with the same name
Two years ago we reviewed Sarah Fodey’s excellent doc about how in the late 1950’s the Royal Canadian Mounted Police invented the ‘Fruit Machine’ to rout out homosexuals. This inept piece of technology didn’t work at all but it didn’t stop the RCMP and the Canadian Military from having a witchhunt for decades to … Continue reading
The Generation That Fought Hardest To Come Out is Going Back In
Queer filmmaker Stu Maddux’s award winning film GEN SILENT about the plight facing many LGBTQ seniors is now 10 years old. That makes us all 10 years closer for all of us to have to personally confront the issues that his very moving documentary covered. Most of the seniors in the Film are LGBT … Continue reading
The Gospel According To André
Fashion Guru and former Editor-at-Large for American Vogue André Leon Talley puts a whole new meaning on the expression ‘larger-than-life’. In this very affectionate profile on him, filmmaker Kate Novack simply points her cameras at Talley and lets him perform. This charismatic African-American tastemaker loves the sound of his own voice as he gives his … Continue reading