Ciao

As it turns out there is nothing gay to review because it’s all coming to theaters in the next few months… hence the billionth trailer I’ve posted in two months. This one looks frist rate. Ciao!

The lesbian-est film since Bend It Like Beckam.

Actually it seems like a re-telling of Imagine Me & You. I mean co’mon… the title is I Can’t Think Straight. I love it and I can’t wait for it to play at my local cinema!

“Were the world mine” …Finally a musical for queers!

i heart musicals

The Secrets

i heart lesbians.

Who’s Afraid of Kathy Acker?

In short everyone was afraid of her. She could probably beat me up. A righteous, postmodernist, sex- positive feminist (although she would have hated being called a feminist) and experimental writer. She shook the literary world, Kathy Acker offers a woman’s perspective, challenging the dominant male interpretation of the female experience. She deconstructed patriarchal “male” texts by taking snippets and translating them as a female character or re-writing bits that for many seemed blasphemous to re-pen often she was accused of plagiarism. She made videos of herself and partners, speaking into a microphone about their experience mid-coital.

There are those that called her work pornography… I call them pricks. There is a pornographic element to her work… but it’s not porn. Acker was endlessly stripping away the “male” opinion and giving her own raw, angry, intelligent two cents, which doesn’t mean that she’s a pornographer. To all the little feminist out there that haven’t met your leader yet… watch this documentary. There are some great minds that speak on Ackers’ behalf in this film and give us a glimpse at her genius… she was way ahead of her time and should not be feared but chronicled as an example of a woman speaking freely… she may be the only one.

As for my review of the film… this documentary is a goodie! Australian filmmaker Barbra Casper delivers a layered, insightful, vulnerable, portrait of Acker and the effect she is making on a new generation of women discovering their sexuality, gender and voice.

Something for the Canadians

Something for the kids

Milk

A massively important figure in the gay rights movement of the 70’s and 80’s, Mr. Harvey Milk, is certainly deserving of being played by Sean Penn and Directed by Gus Van Sant (My Own Private Idaho, Drugstore Cowboy, Even Cowgirls Get The Blues).

Harvey Milk… never heard that name before? Then you’re a bad gay. I mean, I’m a pretty bad gay… that’s because I don’t really appreciate my rights enough to understand the struggle that many before me have had to endure. I’ve never had to deal with extreme hate or violence, the occasional A-hole maybe… but even the straight folk have deal with he occasional A-hole. Because of fearless people like Harvey Milk, we’re able to walk down the street with our partners or get married. This is one gay you should know… I recommend checking out a fabulous documentary called The Times of Harvey Milk, narrated by Harvey Fierstein. I haven’t even seen Milk and I bet you it gets an Oscar nod?! 

Madonna is a director… of Filth And Wisdom.

I’m wary of this… but she is our icon, so I guess I have to support her. It does look sufficiently raunchy and slutty and queer! The editing is better in the French trailer than in the English one. You’re welcome!

p.s. I will love you no matter what Madge

This was a long time coming

Rock me sexy Jesus! Steve Coogan is possibly the funniest thing since Anchorman. I saw this back in Sept. and really wanted to share with readers the glory that is Hamlet 2. However I couldn’t quiet put my finger in it. Hamlet 2 is a very gay film… com’on a rock musical about Jesus? Originally I thought disaster in the form of drama teacher. Now I think, glorious disaster in the form of drama teacher! Anyone that loves drama or effing hates it… this film is for you. So many precious moments of perfect timing and character nuances.  Not to mention co-starring one of my all time favourite ladies to watch act like a bitch, Catherine “The Balls” Keener. And bit parts from Adventures In Babysitting star Elisabeth Shue and SNL’s, Amy Pohler. However the cake really goes to Coogan here, who is at the top of his game. I wish I could be geeky enough to find the time codes for every little bizarre and silly noise Coogan made and cut an adoration video like those goddamn L-word fan vids. I hate those fucking things… strangely I can watch them for hours, amazed at the commitment it takes to make 2 minutes and 47 seconds of Shane fucking every chick that has ever made it into the credits. Coogan deserves a fan video on youtube! But because I can’t find a good one, I’ll share this little ditty…

…It’s not gay porn, in case you were unsure.