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3 weeks ago | 
losangelesblade.com | JOhn King |John King |JOhn King |John Paul King
The name Alain Guiraudie might not be familiar to most Americans, but if you mention “Stranger by the Lake,” fans of great cinema (and especially great queer cinema) are sure to recognize it immediately as the title of the French filmmaker’s most successful work to date.
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3 weeks ago | 
washingtonblade.com | JOhn King |John King |JOhn King |John King
The name Alain Guiraudie might not be familiar to most Americans, but if you mention “Stranger by the Lake,” fans of great cinema (and especially great queer cinema) are sure to recognize it immediately as the title of the French filmmaker’s most successful work to date.
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1 month ago | 
washingtonblade.com | JOhn King |John Paul King
If you’ve ever headed off for a dream getaway that turned out to be an AirBnB nightmare instead, you might be in the target audience for “The Parenting” – and if you also happen to be in a queer relationship and have had the experience of “meeting the parents,” then it was essentially made just for you.
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1 month ago | 
losangelesblade.com | JOhn King |John King |JOhn King |John Paul King
If any form of artistic expression can be called the “front line” in the seemingly eternal war between free speech and censorship, it’s pornography. In the U.S., ever since a 1957 Supreme Court ruling (Roth v.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
losangelesblade.com | JOhn King |John King |JOhn King |John Paul King
When the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences makes the annual announcement of Oscar nominations, it’s always a day of divisive opinions – but even the most divisive Oscar controversies of the past are bound to end up feeling like a pleasant chat over brunch compared with the one that has predictably erupted over yesterday’s revelation of the Academy’s slate of contenders, in which “Emilia Pérez” became not only the most-nominated film of the year, but the first to score a Best Actress...
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
losangelesblade.com | JOhn King |John King |JOhn King |John Paul King
We have to admit that, in a week like this one, writing about movies – or, even more so, movie awards – feels a little bit irrelevant. Even so, the Blade would be remiss if we didn’t report that the nominations for the 16th Annual Dorian Awards have been announced by GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics, not just in the name of maintaining normalcy but as a reminder of the importance and influence of the “Q+ eye” within the arts and entertainment sphere.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
washingtonblade.com | JOhn King |John King
There are few movie stars who have been as prolific as Nicole Kidman. In fact, the Australian star of “Babygirl” – the slick erotic thriller by Dutch filmmaker Halina Reijn now in theaters – has been so busy in recent years (23 films in the last decade, and that’s not even counting her television work or her gig as celebrity spokesmodel for the AMC Theater chain) that it’s become a running gag in the popular conversation.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
washingtonblade.com | JOhn King |John Paul King
If there’s anything Hollywood loves – during “Awards Season” at least – it’s a good old-fashioned epic. From “Gone With the Wind” to “Ben-Hur” to “The Godfather” and beyond, the film industry has always favored “big” movies when it comes to doling out its annual accolades, in part because awards equate to more public interest (and therefore more revenue) for films that might not otherwise grab enough attention to earn back their massive budgets.
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Dec 27, 2024 | 
losangelesblade.com | JOhn King |John Paul King
If all you know about “Emilia Pérez” going into it is that it began life as the libretto for an opera, it might better prepare you than any mere description of its plot. That’s because veteran French writer/director Jacques Audiard’s latest work (which premiered at Cannes in 2024 to a lengthy standing ovation and is now streaming on Netflix) is a larger-than-life affair fueled by yearning, passion, irony and fate.
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Dec 22, 2024 | 
washingtonblade.com | JOhn King |John King
As Tammy Wynette once sang, sometimes it’s hard to be a woman. That iconic understatement might easily serve as the thesis statement for “Nightbitch,” the new horror-tinged offering from writer/director Marielle Heller. Yet while Wynette was lamenting the hardships of staying loyal to a partner, Heller is more interested in the hardships of staying loyal to one’s self – and takes on a rarely aired perspective on an even more quintessential feminine experience.
