Thursday, July 31, 2008
Friday, July 4, 2008
TILA GETS DUMPED BY THE BI GIRL

Tila had to choose between boy Bo and girl Kristy in the season filale of A Shot At Love With Tila Tequila. While Tila's heart led her to Kristy, Kristy started re-thinking if she wanted to be with a man or a woman on the way to the final ceremony. Bad timing? Ya think?
After Tila gently let Bo down and sent him away, she eagerly awaited her new love only to be turned down when she offered Kristy "the key" to her heart. Poor Tila. Bi-strippers can't catch a break.
HANCOCK - A FUN TIME

It wasn't my favorite Will Smith movie, or the best superhero movie I've seen, but Hancock proved to be fun-enough escapism. I wish the story had explained a little more the origin of Hancock's "people", but a lot of that was left up to the imagination. Angel? Demon? Alien? Don't know for sure.
Jason Bateman was the glue for the film. Have loved him since Silver Spoons. Charlize Theron was effective enough...just wish that I hadn't been able to guess the "twisty" details of her character so early in the film.
Friday, June 13, 2008
SORDID LIVES, THE SERIES

For those who have been anxiously awaiting the further adventures of the "Sordid Lives" gang, I'm here to tell you that I've seen several episodes of the upcoming LOGO series, and it's undoubtedly one of the funniest hootenannies I've ever seen on television. Director, Creator, Producer Del Shores has outdone himself. Nearly the entire movie cast is back and better and white trashier than ever. The series is a prequel to the film. That means Peggy, merely a corpse in the film, is fully fleshed out and played to the sinful, Southern Baptist hilt by golden girl treasure Rue McClanahan in this incarnation. The characters that so many have been quoting for so long, including Sissy, Brother Boy, LaVonda, Latrelle, Noleta, Bitsy Mae and Dr. Eve will have you faithfully peeing in your pants with laughter every week. Beth Grant, Ann Walker, Leslie Jordan and Bonnie Bedelia shoplift scenes with their usual panache. And as much as I loved Delta Burke as Noleta in the movie, Caroline Rhea replaces her in the series and more than owns the role. And special mention to the amazing Sarah Hunley as Juanita. My nephew (who also screened several preview episodes) put it best. After the final credits roled, he turned to Del Shores and asked, "When is Juanita getting her own series?" She's that good. And so is the show. Oh, wait a minute. It is its own series. Mark July 25th on your calendar and join in the southern-fried perfection that is "Sordid Lives." (The picture is me with Robert L. Stephenson, who plays soap stud Hunter in the series.)
Sunday, June 1, 2008
WHAT ARE YOUR TOP TEN FAVORITE GLBT MOVIES?
Now that you have seen Squawker and Nutriaman's Top Ten GLBT Movie Lists, click on "comments" and tell us yours!
REVIEW: SAVAGE GRACE

Well, for all the envelope-pushing sexual content buzz in this film based on the true story of socialite Barbara Bakeland and her emotionally-stunted gay son, I was...well..kind of ...bored. If you have read any press on this film, it will be no spoiler to mention the much talked about incestuous content, but that creepy part of the story is brief an comes almost at the end of film.
Eddie Redmayne plays the sexually ambiguous, mommy-adoring, boy-loving son pretty well and Julianne Moore is perfectly cast as his overbearing and controlling mother, but the story moves along slowly and the overall tone of the film is a bit of a Sunday nap inducing homage to the über privileged social circle of the 60s and 70s.
Thankfully there is a little bit of homicidal insanity at the end of the film to leave you feeling like you didn't totally waste 97 minutes of your life.
Friday, May 30, 2008
SAVAGE GRACE

Savage Grace opens in limited release this weekend. Lots of buzz on this one. It's the decadent but true story of the very left-of-center and dysfunctional Baekeland family, heirs to a plastics-business empire. Julianne Moore stars as a woman who marries to improve her situation, has a gay son, tries to control him for her own gain and then all hell breaks loose. Incest, bedlam and all kinds of craziness ensues. Rolling Stone calls it "a twisted mesmerizer of a movie."
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