Article by Damon Young, University of Melbourne “Do you trust me?” An earnest question. “I do.” An earnest answer. And then that ancient, global gesture of earnest intimacy: a handshake. For many, this is the moment from the Avengers: Endgame movie: Captain America and Iron Man putting aside their conflict for the common good.Continue Reading
Article by Amie O’Shea, Deakin University Review: Thomas Banks’ Quest for Love, directed by Pip Kelly In Thomas Banks’ Quest for Love, Banks — a writer and comedian with cerebral palsy — addresses the additional taboos experienced by people with disabilities with diverse sexual identities. The son of sheep farmers inContinue Reading
Article by Annika Hagley, Roger Williams University and Michael Harrison, San Diego Mesa College The release of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 came in the middle of a slate of superheroic movies including Thor: The Dark World, Captain America: Winter Soldier, and the second in a series of X-Men prequels. Expectations for The Amazing Spider-Man 2 wereContinue Reading
Article by Matthew Crofts, University of Hull When Bram Stoker’s hero, Jonathan Harker, wrote a diary entry in the 1897 novel Dracula saying that the “old centuries had … powers of their own which ‘modernity’ cannot kill”, he could have had little idea how right he was. More than 120Continue Reading
Article by Christian-Georges Schwentzel, Université de Lorraine When the film Wonder Woman is released in early June, it will surely join the blockbuster ranks of other recent comic book-inspired film franchises, including Batman, Superman, Spiderman, and X-Men. But that’s not just because it features a sword-wielding Gal Gadot in knee-highContinue Reading
We’ve probably all seen the Eating Out films. The ones where a sassy best friend that may or may not be Tori Spelling is involved and frontal male nudity for one of the minor characters happens? Yeah, but I’m sure you haven’t seen all 58 of these films from OutFest.Continue Reading
April 29th, May 1st and May 2nd, Bowie’s Bulge (and also the film The Labyrinth) will return to the big screen for a nationwide event. The event will include exclusive introductions by Brian Henson and Jennifer Connelly. In addition, audiences will enjoy a special theatrical screening excerpt from the award-winningContinue Reading
“The Demon Bear Saga” was an amazing and terrifying tale the cemented The New Mutants as an X-Men and Comics classic. Word broke last year that the upcoming New Mutants movie was going to center around aspects of that tale, and everyone was shook. We got a bit of aContinue Reading
From director Craig Johnston (The Skeleton Twins) andproduced by Ben Stiller, Alex Strangelove is the tale of how a high school senior (Daniel Doheny) plans on losing his virginity to his girlfriend (Beach Rats’ Madeline Weinstein). Things get complicated when he meets “a handsome and charming gay kid from the other sideContinue Reading
I had the pleasure of chatting a bit with, master of queer horror, Michael Varrati. We talk about his projects, Hallmark movies, and Buffy. He is amazingly fantastic, and once you are done reading this interview, you should go subscribe to his podcast.Continue Reading
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