The 82nd edition of Venice Film Festival (Biennale) was announced today and it will be a star-studded celebration of cinema...
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In the beguiling queer indie Underground Orange (Bajo Naranja), Yankee, a naive American backpacker, lands in Buenos Aires to kick...
More Home Entertainment to devour. The Big Heat — 4K-UHD/Blu-ray — Criterion Courtesy of Criterion The underrated femme-fatale-extraordinaire star Gloria...
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In Michelle Danner’s comedy, The Italians, Matthew Daddario plays Nico Vitale, the beloved son of headstrong matriarch Angelina (Danner) and...
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Ivona’ Juka’s second narrative feature, Beautiful Evening, Beautiful Day is set amidst the turbulent backdrop of 1950’s communist Yugoslavia when...
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A true star performance is on display seven times a week in a smallish off-Broadway house on Christopher Street in...
New on 4K, Blu-ray and DVD. Sabrina — 4K-UHD/Blu-ray — Kino Lorber Courtesy of Kino Lorber Today, the word ‘iconic’...
There’s a (nearly) hidden, gay-themed gem playing this Pride season in Greenwich Village. A musical, seven-years in the making, that...
Ivona Juka’s second narrative feature, Beautiful Evening, Beautiful Day, is a powerful and audacious depiction of queer persecution. It’s honestly...
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Nicholas Barasch is currently wowing audiences as young Frederic in the Roundabout Theatre Company’s splendid reworking of Gilbert & Sullivan’s...
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