An LGBTQ+ podcaster begins a relationship with a guy written off as guy-candy in Bros. Bobby Leiber (Billy Eichner) is the host of the popular podcast “The 11th Brick at Stonewall,” and he is part of the committee that is planning to open the National LGTBQ+ History Museum in New York City. While out clubbing,…
The fantastical life and career of Elton John are told in Rocketman. As a child, Reginald Dwight (Taron Egerton) gained an interest in playing music, which was supported by his grandmother Ivy (Gemma Jones), tolerated by his apathetic mother Sheila (Bryce Dallas Howard), and all but ignored by his unloving father Stanley (Steven Mackintosh). As…
A high end Los Angeles art gallery exhibits works of art that turn out to be haunted by a vengeful spirit in Velvet Buzzsaw. Rhodora Haze (Rene Russo) is a former punk rocker, who now runs one of the most high end art galleries in Los Angeles, with her always respecting the opinion of art critic…
From filmmaker Sturla Gunnarsson (Force of Nature) comes this meditation on the torrential rains of India. Beginning around June of every year, the annual monsoons decent upon India. This incomparably vast weather system affects the country in multiple different ways, including being India’s primary source of water for drinking and farming. Over the course of…
Finishing off my catching up of the Oscar nominees for Best Picture, I checked out this true story directed by Stephen Frears. When she was younger, Irish woman Philomena Lee (Judi Dench) was forced by nuns to give up her son, born out of wedlock, for adoption, with her also being forced into labour at…
Steven Soderbergh’s Liberace biopic Behind the Candelabra is notable for two things. First, the film has been heavily hyped as being Soderbergh’s final film as a director. It remains to be seen whether this truly will be his final film or if Soderbergh will merely end up taking a sabbatical for a few years. The…
Beginners can definitely be described as a quirky about the relationship between a father and a son. The film follows three stories over the course of the film, which take place over different time periods. In the main story, Hal (Christopher Plummer) comes out as gay to his son Oliver (Ewan McGreggor), shortly after the death…
This film won Colin Firth the Best Actor award at the Venice Film Festival, so I was curious to see this film as far back as TIFF. The film follows a homosexual English professor, who is struggling to get over the death of his longtime partner. Firth’s performance is definitely the most notable thing about…
