Gregg Shapiro

Fort Lauderdale

Freelance Writer at Freelance

Freelance Writer at OUTSFL

Entertainment Reporter at Bay Area Reporter

Articles

'Materialists' - Play with Matches, Get Burned

1 week ago | outsfl.com | Gregg Shapiro

Filmmaker Celine Song’s acclaimed and award-winning 2023 writing and directing debut “Past Lives” was a unique and original take on modern love. It invited viewers on an unforgettable journey through memory and heartbreak. Song’s second feature as writer and director, “Materialists” (A24), is also a love story, although one with a more cynical tone. Lucy (Dakota Johnson, and her resting blah face) is a failed actress whose true talents lie in matchmaking.
Worth the Wade: An Interview with Jensen Atwood

1 week ago | outsfl.com | Gregg Shapiro

There’s no question that when Patrik-Ian Polk’s series “Noah’s Arc” premiered on Logo 20 years ago, it was a groundbreaking creation — the story of a group of black gay men and their wonderful friendship. The arc of the cute main character, Noah (Darryl Stephens), included his relationship with hot Wade (Jensen Atwood), a situation that regularly steamed up TV screens.
Movies With Pride: Adam & Steve | WATCH

1 week ago | outsfl.com | Gregg Shapiro |John Hayden

To celebrate Pride Month, OutSFL Entertainment Reporter Gregg Shapiro and veteran entertainment journalist John Hayden have picked their favorite LGBTQ movies. We will bring you their reviews every week in June. Gregg Shapiro: If you really want to test the boundaries of discernment, I suggest this hilarious-but-offensive, tasteless, and inappropriately humorous movie. Released 20 years ago, it’s a movie about gay love and even has a happy ending with the wedding.
A Small World Gets Smaller in 'Things Like This'

2 weeks ago | outsfl.com | Gregg Shapiro

A Small World Gets Smaller in 'Things Like This'You might not realize it from watching it, but "Things Like This" (Shout!) is both the writing and directing debut of actor Max Talisman (who also plays the lead character). A self-described "plus-sized queer," Talisman has made a movie that takes the gay rom-com to a whole new level in the name of representation. Zack Anthony (Talisman), hereafter known as Zack A, doesn't have much luck in love.
Movies With Pride - 'The Adventures of Priscilla: Queen of the Desert'

2 weeks ago | outsfl.com | Gregg Shapiro |John Hayden

Movies With Pride - 'The Adventures of Priscilla: Queen of the Desert' | WATCHTo celebrate Pride Month, OutSFL Entertainment Reporter Gregg Shapiro and veteran entertainment journalist John Hayden have picked their favorite LGBTQ movies. We will bring you their reviews every week in June. John Hayden: This week is "Priscilla: Queen of the Desert." There are so many reasons to love this movie. The cinematography in the Australian Outback is still breathtaking 30 years later.
Q-Music: Not just another Pride 2025 playlist

3 weeks ago | qnotescarolinas.com | Gregg Shapiro

Florida is a sizable state. Large enough to have its own distinctive weather systems. The climates in Miami Beach and the Keys, for instance, differ greatly from those of landlocked Orlando or Tallahassee in the northern center of the Panhandle. Florida is also expansive enough to have multiple music systems. Chances are that the electronic dance music or Latin rhythms heard in South Florida clubs wouldn’t have much in common with the country tunes popular north and west of Palm Beach County.
A Powerful, Revealing, and Memorable Doc

3 weeks ago | outsfl.com | Gregg Shapiro

'Pee-wee as Himself' - A Powerful, Revealing, and Memorable DocIf you are wondering why the doc "Pee-wee as Himself" (HBO Documentary Films) airs in two parts on HBO Max, it's because both subjects, the late Paul Reubens and his alter-ego, Pee-wee Herman, are simply too much to be contained in one cinematic project.
You May Need Some Smelling Salts

4 weeks ago | outsfl.com | Gregg Shapiro

'Bring Her Back' - You May Need Some Smelling SaltsGird your loins, folks! Aussie twin brothers Danny and Michael Philippou, who terrified us with 2023's "Talk To Me," crank up the horror with their follow-up "Bring Her Back" (A24). Add to the fact that the Oscar-nominated Sally Hawkins we've come to know and love from "Happy-Go-Lucky," "The Shape of Water," and "Blue Jasmine," has been replaced by someone entirely different in this new movie.
Remembering Jill Sobule (1959-2025

1 month ago | qnotescarolinas.com | Gregg Shapiro

I’ve always prided myself on being the kind of music consumer who purchased music on impulse. When I stumbled across “Things Here Are Different,” Jill Sobule’s 1990 MCA Records debut album on vinyl in a favorite Chicago record store, I bought it without knowing anything about her. This was at a time when we didn’t have our phones in our pockets to search for information about the artist on the internet.
'Most People Die on Sundays'

1 month ago | outsfl.com | Gregg Shapiro

'Most People Die on Sundays' - Trying to Find Your Own PlaceIair Said, the writer, director, and star of the queer Argentinian movie "Most People Die on Sundays" (Big World Pictures), deserves our admiration. In 72 minutes, he makes us run the gamut of emotions, sometimes in the same scene. When we first encounter overweight gay man David (Said), he is in a hotel room, on the opposite side of a closed bathroom door, desperately pleading with his boyfriend not to leave him.