The eagerly anticipated movie version of “Wicked,” based on the multi-award-winning Stephen Schwartz/Winnie Holzman Broadway musical, which was based on the beloved novel by gay writer Gregory Maguire, couldn’t be better timed. As much a backstory of Glinda and Elpahaba, the Good Witch of the North and the Wicked Witch of the West, respectively, as it is an allegory about the rise of fascism and the abuse of power.
With what seems like a minimum of effort, gay filmmaker Marco Calvani, writer/director of “High Tide” (Strand), manages to avoid many of the overused clichés and pitfalls that plague so many of the current wave of queer movies. That’s not to say that we don’t see some immediately recognizable characterizations, but even those are less annoying in Calvani’s skilled hand.
Religiously conservative Christians and Mormons are likely going to apply the kind of vitriol they usually turn on the LGBTQ community to the new Hugh Grant movie “Heretic” (A24). Surprisingly, other faiths manage to remain unscathed in the suspenseful horror movie co-written and co-directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods.
Like death, taxes, and Trump’s racism, there are some things you can count on when it comes to Sean Baker’s films. For example, the main characters are going to be attempting to survive on the fringes of society. Additionally, there will be some connection to sex work, as in the cases of Baker’s “Starlet,” “Tangerine,” “The Florida Project,” and “Red Rocket.”
Don’t you just hate it when a movie has a stellar cast, including two Oscar winners (Cate Blanchett and Alicia Vikander), but doesn’t quite know what to do with them? Or it puts them through humiliating sequences far below their status and acting abilities. Such is the case with “Rumours” (Bleecker Street), co-directed by Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson, and Guy Maddin (!), a sort of Wes Anderson meets Ari Aster mash-up that somehow isn’t funny or scary enough.
“Sebastian” (Kino Lorber), newly released on Blu-ray, is the second full-length feature from queer writer/director Mikko Mäkelä. It tells the story of Max (hot queer actor Ruaridh Mollica), a gay man in his mid-20s. Max works as a journalist at hip Wall Magazine and is doing research for an interview he has been assigned with writer Brett Easton Ellis.
In my daily life, I’m a list maker. Reminders to pick up this or that item at the market, send a birthday or anniversary card, take the dog to the groomer, email an interview to my various editors, and so on.
During a typhoon in the future, a cargo vessel containing a shipment of Universal Dynamics robots, crashes on an island. Except for one, Rozzum model 7134, all the others are destroyed. That's the way "The Wild Robot" (Universal/Dreamworks) begins.
I’ve been an Edie Falco fan since I first saw her in gay filmmaker Eric Mendelsohn’s 1999 feature “Judy Berlin,” which Falco followed with several years on “The Sopranos,” and the career high point (pun intended), “Nurse Jackie.”
You might not think that “My Old Ass” (Amazon Studios/MGM), a movie about a queer, 18-year-old girl’s shroom-fueled journey of self-discovery, would be one of the best movies of 2024, but you’d be wrong. The second full-length feature film from Canadian writer/director/actor Megan Park features unforgettable performances that are as original as the premise itself.
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