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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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1 month ago | 
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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 | 
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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 9, 2025 | 
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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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Oct 19, 2024 | 
washingtonblade.com | JOhn King |John Paul King
Anyone who was alive and old enough to listen to the radio in the 1970s knows that disco wasn’t just a genre of music. It was an entire lifestyle, centered around dancing in nightclubs to music that meshed R&B with new electronic sounds and an infectiously up-tempo beat – and at the height of its popularity, it had bled into the entire American culture.
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Oct 19, 2024 | 
losangelesblade.com | JOhn King |John Paul King
You know it’s there. It’s been lurking in your Netflix queue for weeks now, taunting you, beckoning you with its sure promise of sexy, lurid thrills, but you’ve been holding back – and we can’t say we blame you. After all, that “Dahmer” show was pretty hard to watch.
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Sep 7, 2024 | 
losangelesblade.com | JOhn King |John Paul King
It’s reasonable to assume, if you’re someone with an interest in “hidden” queer history, that you are already aware of the speculation that Abraham Lincoln might have been gay, or at least bisexual. Those labels didn’t exist in his time, but the 16th POTUS left a trail of eyebrow-raising same-sex relationships, nonetheless, which many scholars consider as evidence that he was likely a member of what we now call the LGBTQ community.
