movies

  • And the Oscar goes too ……..

    And the Oscar goes too ……..

    We’ve said it once already, and we’ll say it again.  Natalie Portman is looking more like a shue-in for a Best Actress Academy Award Nomination for her performance in the title role of Jackie. The film follows Jacqueline Kennedy in the days when she was First Lady in the White House and her life following the…

  • Queer ’90’s :  a Snapshot of the Watershed Decade

    Queer ’90’s : a Snapshot of the Watershed Decade

    A new movie Art House is always a cause for a celebration, but when it opens with such lofty plans as The Metrograph, then it’s sort of like a wet-dream for real hardcore cinephiles.  The two screen theater opened in March this year in Ludlow Street on New York’s Lower East Side and also encompasses a…

  • MiFo gets to Strike A (Fabulous) Pose

    MiFo gets to Strike A (Fabulous) Pose

    queerguru usually avoids Film Festival first nights as programmers often opt for some high-profile fluffy crowd-pleaser, so we were really thrilled to learn that MIFO’s Program Director Joe Bilancio has actually selected such a stunning movie for the Opening Gala of their Fort Lauderdale edition this October .   In 1990, seven young male dancers…

  • Men and Balls and Movies

    Men and Balls and Movies

    There is not one but two excellent LGBT movies that are rooted in sport that are playing the Film Festival circuit right now and are destined to be released on VOD/DVD very soon. The Brit film The Pass was originally a play that ran at the Royal Court Theater some years ago. Starring out-gay actor…