Tag: HBO
James Franco Is Finally Doing Porn!
It’s official, James Franco is finally doing porn! Almost. While you won’t quite see him in action on a site like tubevideoshd, we’ve got the next best thing. He has just signed on with HBO to do new TV series that follows the legalization and rise of the porn industry in New York’s Times Square…
Very Semi-Serious
After watching Leah Wolchok’s fascinating look behind the scenes of The New Yorker’s celebrated Cartoon Department and having this mini crash course into its workings, it makes you have a great deal of respect to all the rather eccentric men (and a few women) whose lives are solely all about getting their ‘funnies’ published in this…
Regarding Susan Sontag
The writer/philosopher/political activist/filmmaker Susan Sontag gained both a reputation and a notoriety for her controversial work very early on in her career which stuck with her until her untimely death just aged 71. This new HBO documentary by Nancy Kates seems to deliberately set out to be a tribute to someone the director is clearly…
The Normal Heart
Larry Kramer is perpetually angry. This prominent loud-mouthed writer and gay activist has been shouting out his highly personal take on some of life’s iniquities and in-equalities for the past 40 years and has made himself famously unpopular. It was his exasperation with the apathy of the gay community when the AIDS scare first started…
Captivated : The Trials of Pamela Smart
In 1990 in a small New England town Pamela Smart, an attractive blond sexpot teacher who was having an affair with one of her students, was accused of plotting her husband’s murder. This rather scandalous cause celebre was the first ever trial to be televised and this new HBO documentary from filmmaker Jeremiah Zagar focuses…
