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‘L’immensità’ Is A Quiet Coming of Age/Coming Out Story [Sundance Review]

January 28, 2023 by Joe Lipsett Leave a Comment

Penelope Cruz plays an idolized housewife contending with familial conflict in trans filmmaker Emanuele Crialese‘s L’immensità.

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Filed Under: Queer Film Reviews, Sundance Tagged With: Emanuele Crialese, LGBT, LGBTQ, Luana Giuliani, penelope cruz, Sundance Film Festival, Vincenzo Amato

‘Servant’ Unlocks A Location As New Foes Move In [TV Review w/ Gayly Dreadful]

January 27, 2023 by Joe Lipsett 1 Comment

Each week Terry and Joe review the latest episode of Apple TV’s Servant S4, alternating between our respective sites.

Spoilers follow for Episode 4.03 “Séance”

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Filed Under: Reviews w/ Gayly Dreadful, Servant Tagged With: appletv, Barbara Kingsley, Denny Dillon, Ishana Shyamalan, Lauren Ambrose, Nell Tiger Free, Rupert Grint, servant, Toby Kebbell

‘Wolf Pack’ Features Pretty People and Shallow Storylines [TV Review]

January 26, 2023 by Joe Lipsett Leave a Comment

Sarah Michelle Gellar enters a hospital in blue lighting

Is the new werewolf series from the team behind Teen Wolf, starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, worth howling about?

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Filed Under: Queer TV, Teen Wolf, TV Review Tagged With: Armani Jackson, Bella Shepard, Chloe Rose Robertson, Edo van Belkom, James Martinez, Jeff Davis, MTV, paramount+, Rodrigo Santoro, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Tyler Lawrence Gray

High Concept Series ‘Extraordinary’ Serves Up Safe and Familiar Comedy [Review]

January 25, 2023 by Joe Lipsett Leave a Comment

A red headed woman looking confused

What would you do if everyone in the world had a superpower except you? That’s the premise of Hulu’s new comedy series Extraordinary.

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Filed Under: TV, TV Review Tagged With: Bilal Hasna, Disney, Emma Moran, Hulu, Luke Rollason, Máiréad Tyers, Ned Porteous, Safia Oakley-Green, Siobhan McSweeney, Sofia Oxenham

‘Cassandro’ Is A Solid Biopic with a Dedicated Lead Performance [Sundance Film Review]

January 24, 2023 by Joe Lipsett Leave a Comment

Gael Garcia Bernal as wrestler Cassandro, wearing a snakeskin wrestling outfit and blonde hair

One of the buzzy queer films playing at Sundance is a biopic of trail-blazing gay lucha libre star Cassandro.

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Filed Under: Film Festivals, Queer Film Reviews, Sundance Tagged With: Bad Bunny, David Teague, Gael Garcia Bernal, Raúl Castillo, Roberta Colindrez, Roger Ross Williams, Sundance Film Festival

Jonathan Majors Shines in Messy ‘Magazine Dreams’ [Sundance Film Review]

January 23, 2023 by Joe Lipsett Leave a Comment

A nearly naked bodybuilder (Jonathan Majors) posing in profile

An amateur bodybuilder spirals out of control in writer/director Elijah Bynum‘s latest drama, which just premiered at Sundance.

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Filed Under: Film Reviews, Sundance Tagged With: elijah bynum, haley bennett, harriet sansom harris, Jonathan Majors, Sundance Film Festival

Darren Stein’s ‘Sparkler’ is a Queer Indie Gem [Review]

January 16, 2023 by Joe Lipsett Leave a Comment

Two middle aged women stand outside the hotel room of a young dark haired man

Now that Sparkler, the directorial feature debut of Darren Stein (Jawbreaker) is more readily available, let’s dive in with a review.

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Filed Under: Film Reviews, Queer Film Reviews Tagged With: Darren Stein, Freddie Prinze Jr, Grace Zabriskie, Jamie Kennedy, Park Overall, Sandy Martin, Sparkler, Steven Petraca, Veronica Cartwright

The Final Season of ‘Servant’ Begins with the Apocalypse [Review w/ Gayly Dreadful]

January 13, 2023 by Joe Lipsett Leave a Comment

Each week Terry and Joe review the latest episode of Apple TV’s Servant S4, alternating between our respective sites.

Spoilers follow for Episode 4.01 “Pigeon”

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Filed Under: Reviews w/ Gayly Dreadful, Servant, TV Tagged With: Apple TV, Final Season, Lauren Ambrose, M. Night Shyamalan, Nell Tiger Free, Rupert Grint, Season Premiere, servant, Toby Kebbell, Tony Basgallop

‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ Delivers The Spectacle [Review]

December 16, 2022 by Joe Lipsett

A group of tall blue people in loincloths argue

13 years after delivering the highest grossing film of all time, James Cameron is back with the sequel to Avatar, entitled The Way of Water. Is there still life (and money) to be found on Pandora?

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Filed Under: Film Reviews Tagged With: avatar, Bailey Bass, Brendan Cowell, Britain Dalton, Edie Falco, Jack Champion, james cameron, Jemaine Clement, Kate Winslet, Sam Worthington, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Zoe Saldaña

‘Spoiler Alert’ Will Make You Cry [Review]

December 7, 2022 by Joe Lipsett

Two men pose for a picture in front of a christmas tree

A beautifully rendered gay love story that tugs on both the heartstrings, as well as your funny bone, to ensure that smiles and waterworks flow by the credits? Why it might just be a Christmas miracle…

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Filed Under: Film Reviews Tagged With: ben aldridge, Bob Irwin, Dan Savage, David Marshall Grant, jim parsons, michael ausiello, Michael Showalter, sally field, spoiler alert, Tara Summers, tv line

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The 411 on me

I am a freelance film and television journalist based in Toronto, Canada.

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Podcasts:
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Recent Posts

  • ‘L’immensità’ Is A Quiet Coming of Age/Coming Out Story [Sundance Review]
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  • ‘Wolf Pack’ Features Pretty People and Shallow Storylines [TV Review]

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