Reel Thoughts: Suck It To Me

Not having access to here! TV, I have never seen the sexy gay soap opera, Dante’s Cove or its spin-off, The Lair . After watching part of t...

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...

Reel Thoughts Interview: Lights Over Phoenix

Prior to its Arizona premier at the Sedona Film Festival , I had the opportunity to chat with director Daniel Pace about his new film, The A...

Reel Thoughts: I Do, I Do

Not to be confused with “jumping the shark,” that indelible moment when a TV show goes horribly and irrevocably wrong, “jumping the broom” r...

Reel Thoughts: La Vie Boheme

I have seen Jonathan Larson’s rock musical Rent live when the Broadway tour came to town, and on the big screen when the film version was r...

Reel Thoughts Interview: Leslie Jordan

There are few actors as distinctive and consistently hilarious as Leslie Jordan . The Emmy-winner is best known as Beverley Leslie on Will ...

Reel Thoughts: High School Confidential

One of the many pleasures of watching a foreign film is the utterly alien way they tell a story. The language isn’t even an obstacle when th...

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...

Reel Thoughts: When Dustin Met Emma

Not unlike comfort food, some movies are comfort films. They star impeccable actors who give rich and satisfying performances, and the whole...

Reel Thoughts: Neil's Best (and Worst) of 2008

The best of this past year, in order of their greatness: 1. Milk : Here’s a movie whose time is now. Sean Penn is amazing as Harvey Milk , ...

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: Man of the Year - HEATH LEDGER

Heath Ledger proved his talent in the past by taking on tough roles (like his haunted characters in Monster’s Ball and Candy ), but then h...

Reel Thoughts: Nazis, Nazis Everywhere!

No fewer than seven films out now feature Holocaust or Nazi atrocities, including The Curious Case of Benjamin Button , Defiance , The Boy i...