The wonderful astonishing opening sequence of a full scale choreographed musical number on a flyover in the middle of an L.A. traffic jam sets the pace for what is clearly one of the most exhilarating movie musicals for years. La La Land is only the third film helmed by 31 year old Damien Chazelle (he picked up an Oscar nomination for Whiplash his last movie) and he successfully creates a contemporary musical that is obviously inspired by all the classic ones of the genre with it’s romantic story full of hope and love.
queerguru reviews La La Land for P.T.V. as the movie arrives at the Waters Edge Cinema in P.Town.
Celebrity chef Michele Ragussis, a finalist of the 8th season of Food Network Star and something of a regular fixture on TV cooking shows has started her own You Tube channel which she calls Funny Food TV. Ragussis has been the Executive Chef at The Central House in Provincetown’s Crown & Anchor for the past two … Continue reading
Writer/director Mike Mills is revisiting his own family history again as the source for his latest movie. It served him well last time when in ‘Beginners’ he told the story of his father who came out as gay when he was 75 years old, garnering an Oscar for Christopher Plummer. This time around Mills’s focus is on his mother, and is set in the summer of 1979 when she tried to adjust to reality of being a single parent who had given birth late in life, and now has to deal with the coming-of-age of her teenage son.
It’s quite extraordinary that acclaimed Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larraín known mainly for his generally aggressive dramas interspersed with violence about his own country, should choose such a quintessential American story as Jackie for his first English speaking movie. The fact that he succeeds so well with his version of the accounts in the week that immediately followed the tragic assassination of President Kennedy in 1963 as seen through the eyes of his grieving widow is due mainly to Natalie Portman’s powerhouse performance as one of this country’s most iconic First Ladies.
Many of us in the South Florida LGBT community regularly commute every summer to the very tip of Cape Cod which has always been considered a little piece of heaven on earth. For those who have never ventured to this far part of Massachusetts, there is a new Exhibition opening at the Stonewall National Museum … Continue reading
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