Reel Thoughts Interview: Dan's New "Castle"

I recently had the opportunity to chat with director Dan Castle about his "gay Aussie surf movie", Newcastle , scheduled to scree...

Reverend’s Reviews: Nothing's Impossible ...

... Yentl is finally on DVD! Giving in to fan demand that has existed basically since the advent of DVDs, Barbra Streisand has finally rel...

Reel Thoughts Interview: Wrestling with Demons

Daren Aronofsky and Marisa Tomei talk about creating The Wrestler On an unseasonably cloudy November day, director Daren Aronofsky and Aca...

Dearie Awards 2008: Movie of the Year - MILK

This past election year, it was the best of times, it was the worst of times, and Gus Van Sant’s Milk caught that dichotomy perfectly. Mil...

Dearie Awards 2008: Television Show of the Year - PUSHING DAISIES

Next to Ugly Betty (last year's Dearie Award winner in this category), no other series had the queer sensibility of Pushing Daisies . I...

Dearie Awards 2008: Stage Show of the Year - BILLY ELLIOT

Some of our favorite films of all time have been adapted for the stage, and the results can be great ( Hairspray ) or ... not so great ( The...

Toon Talk: Top 10 of 2008

Yes, it is that time again, where a critic looks back at the year just past and anoints the best and the brightest of the past twelve months...

Reel Thoughts: Button It

If you ask yourself who directed Brad Pitt ’s new film, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button , David Fincher wouldn’t be the first name on an...

Reverend’s Reviews: Dickens Meets Bollywood

The holiday season has proven over the decades to be a lucrative time for cinematic adaptations of the works of Charles Dickens. Not coincid...

The Latest on DVD: Gimme Gimme Gimme

Mamma Mia! , the Golden Globe nominated blockbuster worldwide hit, makes its DVD and Blu-ray debut today. The two-disc special edition of th...

Reel Thoughts: All the President's Lies

After a celebrated Broadway production, Frost/Nixon has been lovingly brought to the big screen. It’s a powerful premise — lightweight talk...

Reverend’s Reviews: Hello and Goodbye

Ciao , opening this weekend in limited release, is a quiet, affecting story of two men unexpectedly brought together by the sudden death of ...

Reel Thoughts: The Mayor of Castro Street

Harvey Milk was known as “the Mayor of Castro Street” long before he rose to prominence as the first openly gay politician in the US. Seein...

The Latest on DVD: Still Standing

With a spiffy cover like that, if someone were to mistakenly pick up this two-disc special edition of the science fiction masterpiece The Da...

Reel Thoughts: Wonder from Down Under

Okay, I admit that Baz Luhrmann’s sweeping epic Australia would have scored high marks from me for Hugh Jackman’s oft-shown physique alone...