When his best friend and creative partner suddenly couples off and moves away, an ambitious New York drag queen determined for the limelight must reinvent himself or risk becoming an irrelevant solo act both onstage and off. Chrissy Judy, the gorgeous feature debut from writer-director-star Todd Flaherty, is an archly funny platonic love story between two […]
A coming-out drama devoid of joy or affirmation, ‘El Houb’ looks at an angst-ridden gay Arab immigrant’s life in Amsterdam. While its story trips fluidly back and forth in time, much of the action in Shariff Nasr’s drama El Houb remains, like the film’s Moroccan-Dutch protagonist Karim, confined to a single location: the Amsterdam apartment
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Seventeen-year-old Jim (Jordan Oosterhof) is a promising boxer, training under the exacting eye of his alcoholic father Stan (renowned English actor Tim Roth). Life outside the ring gets complicated when Jim forms a friendship with an outcast takatāpui Māori schoolmate, Whetu (Conan Hayes). Their relationship deepens into romance, attracting hatred within their small, testosterone-filled West
If Stranger Things’ Will Byers warmed your heart, then The Tutor’s Jackson is going to creep you out like nothing else. From a vulnerable victim of alien monsters to a threatening teenager, Noah Schnapp has come a long way in his career and The Tutor is proof. The latest psychological mystery thriller also stars Garrett Hedlund as the titular tutor, Ethan, and Victoria Justice as
Swallowed is a 2022 American independent body horror film written and directed by Carter Smith. The film stars Cooper Koch, Jose Colon, Jena Malone, and Mark Patton. It follows two friends who, on their final night out, end up smuggling drugs via swallowing the sacs which unfortunately takes a bad turn. The film premiered at the 2022 Fantasia International Film Festival and was
Keith Haring – Bio Keith Allen Haring (May 4, 1958 – February 16, 1990) was an American artist whose pop art emerged from the New York City graffiti subculture of the 1980s. His animated imagery has “become a widely recognized visual language”. Much of his work includes sexual allusions that turned into social activism by using the images to advocate for safe sex and AIDS awareness. In
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Rock Hudson (born Roy Harold Scherer Jr.; November 17, 1925 – October 2, 1985) was an American actor. One of the most popular movie stars of his time, he had a screen career spanning more than three decades. A prominent heartthrob in the Golden Age of Hollywood, he achieved stardom with his role in Magnificent
Robert Henry Mizer (March 27, 1922 – May 12, 1992) was an American photographer and filmmaker, known for pushing boundaries of depicting male homoerotic content with his work in the mid 20th century. Biography Bob Mizer’s earliest photographs appeared in 1942, in both color and black and white. He began his photography career apprenticing with
The Whale is a 2022 American psychological drama film directed by Darren Aronofsky and written by Samuel D. Hunter, based on his 2012 play of the same name. The film stars Brendan Fraser, Sadie Sink, Hong Chau, Ty Simpkins, and Samantha Morton. The plot follows a reclusive, morbidly obese English teacher who tries to restore his relationship with his teenage daughter. The Whale premiered at the 79th Venice International Film
Of an Age is a 2022 Australian romantic drama film, directed and written by Goran Stolevski. The film stars Elias Anton as Kol, a Serbian immigrant in Australia who enters a brief but intense romance with Adam (Thom Green), the brother of his ballroom dance partner Ebony (Hattie Hook). The film premiered on 4 August 2022 at the Melbourne International
