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2 weeks ago | 
losangelesblade.com | JOhn King |John King |JOhn King |John Paul King
There was a time, early in his career, that young filmmaker Wes Anderson’s work was labeled “quirky.” To describe his blend of dry humor, deadpan whimsy, and unresolved yearning, along with his flights of theatrical fancy and obsessive attention to detail, it seemed apt at the time.
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1 month ago | 
washingtonblade.com | JOhn King |John Paul King
There’s a strange feeling of irony about a spring movie season stacked with queer romcoms – a genre that has felt conspicuously absent on the big screen since the disappointing reception met by the much-hyped “Bros” in 2022 – at a time when pushback against LGBTQ visibility is stronger than it’s been for 40 years.
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1 month ago | 
losangelesblade.com | JOhn King |John Paul King
There’s a strange feeling of irony about a spring movie season stacked with queer romcoms – a genre that has felt conspicuously absent on the big screen since the disappointing reception met by the much-hyped “Bros” in 2022 – at a time when pushback against LGBTQ visibility is stronger than it’s been for 40 years.
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1 month ago | 
washingtonblade.com | JOhn King |John Paul King
For someone who’s been dead for 160 years, Abraham Lincoln is still hot. No, we don’t mean it that way, though if we were talking about the Lincoln of “Lavender Men” – a new movie starring and co-written by queer playwright Roger Q. Mason, who also wrote the acclaimed play from which it is adapted – we certainly could be. We’re really just making the observation that the 16th POTUS continues to occupy a central place in America’s national imagination.
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1 month ago | 
washingtonblade.com | JOhn King |John Paul King
You might not know it from the publicity campaign, but the latest big-screen project for breakout “Euphoria” actor and sex symbol Jacob Elordi is 100% a gay love story. Alright, perhaps that’s not entirely accurate.
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2 months 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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Mar 21, 2025 | 
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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Mar 9, 2025 | 
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.
