In the wake of the untimely and tragic death of Matthew Perry, many people are sharing their favorite memories and moments from his performance as Chandler Bing in the long-running, beloved sitcom "Friends." Over the course of 10 seasons and 236 episodes that people have watched and rewatched and rewatched ad infinitum, there is so much material to choose from -- whether it's the sly, sarcastic one-liners Perry would throw out to fill a space of uncomfortable silence, or the large-scale physical gags that he was equally adept at. Of course, there are also the tender moments that people remember from his relationship with Courteney Cox's Monica.
There is one particular element of Chandler's character you will not see people reminiscing about. Whenever a show lasts as long as "Friends" did, there will inevitably be storylines from the show that the audience doesn't like, and there will be just as...
There is one particular element of Chandler's character you will not see people reminiscing about. Whenever a show lasts as long as "Friends" did, there will inevitably be storylines from the show that the audience doesn't like, and there will be just as...
- 10/29/2023
- by Mike Shutt
- Slash Film
This story was originally published in the March 12, 2015 issue of Rolling Stone.
“She’s coming out,” a choreographer says over a P.A. system, sounding tense. “Everyone get your horns and masks on.” A couple of nights before the Grammys, 22 shirtless, flawlessly fit male dancers, each equipped with a bejeweled face mask and hazardous-looking black bull’s horns, line up on a rehearsal-studio stage within Sony Pictures’ Culver City lot, awaiting inspection.
Madonna struts out of a dressing room far across the studio, dressed in a matador outfit, sans pants.
“She’s coming out,” a choreographer says over a P.A. system, sounding tense. “Everyone get your horns and masks on.” A couple of nights before the Grammys, 22 shirtless, flawlessly fit male dancers, each equipped with a bejeweled face mask and hazardous-looking black bull’s horns, line up on a rehearsal-studio stage within Sony Pictures’ Culver City lot, awaiting inspection.
Madonna struts out of a dressing room far across the studio, dressed in a matador outfit, sans pants.
- 7/27/2023
- by Brian Hiatt
- Rollingstone.com
(Welcome to Movies Are Gay, a Pride Month series where we explore the intentional, or accidental, ways Lgbtqia+ themes, characters, and creatives have shaped cinema.)
Celine Sciamma's 2019 romance "Portrait of a Lady on Fire" is a gorgeous and wonderful work of art, a love story so intense and beautiful that when it was released straight to the Criterion Collection, most critics merely nodded in approval. It felt right. There also didn't seem to be many complaints when the film was elected as the thirtieth greatest film of all time on the Sight & Sound 2022 poll.
"Portrait of a Lady on Fire" follows two women who are essentially left alone on an island together. There are no men here. When women gather, it's to perform impromptu a cappella numbers on a cliff at night, bonding around a fire, and reveling in feminine energy. Late in the film, a mansion house servant...
Celine Sciamma's 2019 romance "Portrait of a Lady on Fire" is a gorgeous and wonderful work of art, a love story so intense and beautiful that when it was released straight to the Criterion Collection, most critics merely nodded in approval. It felt right. There also didn't seem to be many complaints when the film was elected as the thirtieth greatest film of all time on the Sight & Sound 2022 poll.
"Portrait of a Lady on Fire" follows two women who are essentially left alone on an island together. There are no men here. When women gather, it's to perform impromptu a cappella numbers on a cliff at night, bonding around a fire, and reveling in feminine energy. Late in the film, a mansion house servant...
- 6/3/2023
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
To say Elliot Page has endured a lot during his time in Hollywood has been an understatement. The actor’s upcoming memoir Pageboy wastes no time getting into the nitty gritty about his experiences as a queer person in the limelight (via People), including a secret relationship with a closeted co-star and the “famous asshole” who once verbally assaulted him at a star-studded party.
In the memoir, Page uses “Ryan” as the code name for a co-star he began seeing romantically after they met on set; Ryan, a woman who wasn’t yet out as gay, would hold Page’s hand at work. But she pretended to just be platonic friends with Page when they were out — if they even acknowledged each other at all. Still, the pair kept up a relationship for two years.
“Some of my friends didn’t even know I was in a relationship,” Page said.
In the memoir, Page uses “Ryan” as the code name for a co-star he began seeing romantically after they met on set; Ryan, a woman who wasn’t yet out as gay, would hold Page’s hand at work. But she pretended to just be platonic friends with Page when they were out — if they even acknowledged each other at all. Still, the pair kept up a relationship for two years.
“Some of my friends didn’t even know I was in a relationship,” Page said.
- 6/2/2023
- by Abby Jones
- Consequence - Film News
(Welcome to Movies Are Gay, a Pride Month series where we explore the intentional [or accidental] ways Lgbtqia+ themes, characters, and creatives have shaped cinema.)
Isaac Julien might not be a household name to even the most vocally self-professed cinephiles, but he certainly should be. As an installation artist and one of the founders of the Sankofa Film and Video Collective, Julien is a pillar of Black cinema history. His breakthrough feature is the docu-drama "Looking for Langston," which focused on Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance. But it was in 1991 that Julien debuted the masterful, Semaine de la Critique prize for Best Film at the Cannes Film Festival-winning "Young Soul Rebels" which helped bring him to a wider audience.
Set during the 1977's Silver Jubilee for Queen Elizabeth, "Young Soul Rebels" is a beautiful, poetic, at times devastating coming-of-age romantic dramedy, and also a thriller about a horrific homophobic hate crime.
Isaac Julien might not be a household name to even the most vocally self-professed cinephiles, but he certainly should be. As an installation artist and one of the founders of the Sankofa Film and Video Collective, Julien is a pillar of Black cinema history. His breakthrough feature is the docu-drama "Looking for Langston," which focused on Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance. But it was in 1991 that Julien debuted the masterful, Semaine de la Critique prize for Best Film at the Cannes Film Festival-winning "Young Soul Rebels" which helped bring him to a wider audience.
Set during the 1977's Silver Jubilee for Queen Elizabeth, "Young Soul Rebels" is a beautiful, poetic, at times devastating coming-of-age romantic dramedy, and also a thriller about a horrific homophobic hate crime.
- 6/2/2023
- by BJ Colangelo
- Slash Film
This article contains spoilers for the "Barry" finale as well as "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang."
Satire is one of the oldest artistic impulses; to mock and examine whatever systems, order, or supposed truths exist in any given era. Although cinema is a relatively young medium, it's no surprise that an enormous number of satires of the film and television industries have been made nearly since movies began.
HBO's "Barry," which concluded its four-season run this past Sunday night, proudly belongs to this long-standing tradition of biting the hand that feeds it, seeing as "Barry" is a highly cinematic TV series set in and around Hollywood. The grand satiric irony baked into the show's premise is the idea of a professional assassin, Barry Berkman, arriving in L.A. and deciding to try and have an acting career. The latent joke is, of course, that the showbiz world is just as morally...
Satire is one of the oldest artistic impulses; to mock and examine whatever systems, order, or supposed truths exist in any given era. Although cinema is a relatively young medium, it's no surprise that an enormous number of satires of the film and television industries have been made nearly since movies began.
HBO's "Barry," which concluded its four-season run this past Sunday night, proudly belongs to this long-standing tradition of biting the hand that feeds it, seeing as "Barry" is a highly cinematic TV series set in and around Hollywood. The grand satiric irony baked into the show's premise is the idea of a professional assassin, Barry Berkman, arriving in L.A. and deciding to try and have an acting career. The latent joke is, of course, that the showbiz world is just as morally...
- 5/29/2023
- by Bill Bria
- Slash Film
The #OneChicago franchise is holding strong at NBC: The network has renewed Chicago Fire and its spinoffs Chicago P.D. and Chicago Med, TVLine has learned.
Fire has been picked up for Season 12, while P.D. and Med will return for their 11th and ninth seasons, respectively.
More from TVLineNBC Renewal Twist: Which Law & Order Series Did Not Get a Full Season Order?Saturday Night Live: Molly Shannon's Sally O'Malley Returns to School the Jonas Brothers -- Watchsnl Video: Iconic Aladdin Baddie Jafar Announces, 'Yep, I'm Gay!'
Chicago Fire (with 9.5 million total viewers and a 1.0 demo rating,...
Fire has been picked up for Season 12, while P.D. and Med will return for their 11th and ninth seasons, respectively.
More from TVLineNBC Renewal Twist: Which Law & Order Series Did Not Get a Full Season Order?Saturday Night Live: Molly Shannon's Sally O'Malley Returns to School the Jonas Brothers -- Watchsnl Video: Iconic Aladdin Baddie Jafar Announces, 'Yep, I'm Gay!'
Chicago Fire (with 9.5 million total viewers and a 1.0 demo rating,...
- 4/10/2023
- by Vlada Gelman
- TVLine.com
The Walt Disney Company is facing “serious consequences” and possible legal action over the pink slipping this week of Marvel VFX chief Victoria Alonso.
Making it clear to Bob Iger, Kevin Feige and everyone at the House of Mouse that she is not going quietly the Oscar nominated producer has retained the services of Patty Glaser. To that end, with competing POVs on what was going on BTS, the Glaser Weil Fink Howard Avchen & Shapiro Llp partner is putting Disney on notice.
In a statement released Friday for the now former President, Physical and Postproduction, VFX and Animation Production for Marvel Studios, the litigator, who is already taking Disney-owned LucasFilm to court for the canning of Star Wars TV series The Acolyte EP Karyn McCarthy, said:
The idea that Victoria was fired over a handful of press interviews relating to a personal passion project about human rights and democracy that...
Making it clear to Bob Iger, Kevin Feige and everyone at the House of Mouse that she is not going quietly the Oscar nominated producer has retained the services of Patty Glaser. To that end, with competing POVs on what was going on BTS, the Glaser Weil Fink Howard Avchen & Shapiro Llp partner is putting Disney on notice.
In a statement released Friday for the now former President, Physical and Postproduction, VFX and Animation Production for Marvel Studios, the litigator, who is already taking Disney-owned LucasFilm to court for the canning of Star Wars TV series The Acolyte EP Karyn McCarthy, said:
The idea that Victoria was fired over a handful of press interviews relating to a personal passion project about human rights and democracy that...
- 3/25/2023
- by Dominic Patten and Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
“Bros” star and co-screenwriter Billy Eichner, costar Luke Macfarlane, producer Judd Apatow and director Nick Stoller (“Neighbors”) know just how much is riding on the film, the first-ever major studio romantic comedy featuring two gay characters. Released by Universal, it opens wide on Sept. 30.
After the film’s weekend premiere, all four sat down with senior film reporter Brian Welk at at TheWrap and Shutterstock’s Interview and Portrait Studio at the Toronto Film Festival to discuss just how they were all going to pull this off and hopefully create a romantic comedy for the ages.
“I was just acting in things Nick was directing. I’d never written a movie,” Eichner said. “He said we wanted his next movie to be a rom-com, because he loves rom-coms, and he thought it would be cool if his next one was about a gay couple. And he said, ‘Do you want...
After the film’s weekend premiere, all four sat down with senior film reporter Brian Welk at at TheWrap and Shutterstock’s Interview and Portrait Studio at the Toronto Film Festival to discuss just how they were all going to pull this off and hopefully create a romantic comedy for the ages.
“I was just acting in things Nick was directing. I’d never written a movie,” Eichner said. “He said we wanted his next movie to be a rom-com, because he loves rom-coms, and he thought it would be cool if his next one was about a gay couple. And he said, ‘Do you want...
- 9/11/2022
- by Jason Clark
- The Wrap
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In the midst of Disney’s D23 presentation of upcoming material from Lucasfilm and Marvel, as well as Avatar, Disney CEO Bob Chapek made himself available for a 15-minute interview with The Hollywood Reporter. The conversation touched on issues ranging from the handling of the Scarlett Johansson conflict and the “Don’t Say Gay” controversy in Florida as well as ticket pricing and more.
This presentation was a lot of Disney+. It seems like all that stuff had its origins on the big screen — all the Marvel universe — everything launches [from movies] and you have the theme parks, you have the cruise ships, you have so much at stake in launching franchises. With a lot of investors re-evaluating “all in on streaming,” are you as well?
It’s important to go back to when Disney+ was launched and what the hypothesis was about how much food...
In the midst of Disney’s D23 presentation of upcoming material from Lucasfilm and Marvel, as well as Avatar, Disney CEO Bob Chapek made himself available for a 15-minute interview with The Hollywood Reporter. The conversation touched on issues ranging from the handling of the Scarlett Johansson conflict and the “Don’t Say Gay” controversy in Florida as well as ticket pricing and more.
This presentation was a lot of Disney+. It seems like all that stuff had its origins on the big screen — all the Marvel universe — everything launches [from movies] and you have the theme parks, you have the cruise ships, you have so much at stake in launching franchises. With a lot of investors re-evaluating “all in on streaming,” are you as well?
It’s important to go back to when Disney+ was launched and what the hypothesis was about how much food...
- 9/10/2022
- by Kim Masters
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Toronto – Contrary to popular belief, there have been more gay romantic comedy movies than you might think. Many of them were released independently, and a few even by the mini-majors. You can even argue that studio releases such as “Too Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything” or “The Birdcage” qualified as rom-coms to some degree. Granted, those examples were released decades ago. Taking all that into account, however, you can absolutely make the case there has never been an R-rated gay romantic comedy like Universal Studios’ “Bros.” We’ll give the star and co-writer Billy Eichner that, for sure.
Continue reading ‘Bros’ Review: Billy Eichner’s Witty Gay Rom-Com Works [TIFF] at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘Bros’ Review: Billy Eichner’s Witty Gay Rom-Com Works [TIFF] at The Playlist.
- 9/10/2022
- by Gregory Ellwood
- The Playlist
Weekend Update tackled Russia’s fake news law, the country’s ban on car exports and Disney’s response to Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill on the latest episode of Saturday Night Live.
“Russia has passed a fake news law that makes it illegal for any organization to report information that contradicts what the government says,” co-anchor Colin Jost said, “which explains the recent headline, ‘Six-foot-five Putin Not Insane.'”
After discussing President Biden’s refusal to step into World War III and the rising gas prices nationwide,...
“Russia has passed a fake news law that makes it illegal for any organization to report information that contradicts what the government says,” co-anchor Colin Jost said, “which explains the recent headline, ‘Six-foot-five Putin Not Insane.'”
After discussing President Biden’s refusal to step into World War III and the rising gas prices nationwide,...
- 3/13/2022
- by Daniel Kreps
- Rollingstone.com
Disney CEO Bob Chapek is in full damage control mode today as the blast radius from the company’s bungled response to Florida’s discriminatory ‘Don’t Say Gay’ legislation threatens his newly minted reign at the House of Mouse.
“You needed me to be a stronger ally in the fight for equal rights and I let you down,” Chapek said to Disney staffers Friday in the second reset in as many days. “I am sorry.”
Chapek tried and failed both in a previous bureaucratic heavy letter and at the March 9 shareholder meeting to punt any public statement on the Sunshine State measure that bans any discussion or teaching about the LGBTQ+ community and sexual orientation or gender identity. Insisting that “corporate statements do very little to change outcomes or minds” in the quickly denounced March 7 memo, Chapek’s missive was in clear contrast to his smooth predecessor Bob Iger,...
“You needed me to be a stronger ally in the fight for equal rights and I let you down,” Chapek said to Disney staffers Friday in the second reset in as many days. “I am sorry.”
Chapek tried and failed both in a previous bureaucratic heavy letter and at the March 9 shareholder meeting to punt any public statement on the Sunshine State measure that bans any discussion or teaching about the LGBTQ+ community and sexual orientation or gender identity. Insisting that “corporate statements do very little to change outcomes or minds” in the quickly denounced March 7 memo, Chapek’s missive was in clear contrast to his smooth predecessor Bob Iger,...
- 3/11/2022
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
Facing rising outcry, Disney CEO Bob Chapek has decided to play a political and cultural version of a church mouse when it comes to Florida’s new ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill.
With the openly discrimatory and controversial Parental Rights in Education legislation is scheduled for a vote today in the Sunshine State’s Senate, the boss of one of Florida’s largest employers is sitting on his hands, for now.
“As we have seen time and again, corporate statements do very little to change outcomes or minds,” said the Disney exec in an email sent out to staff this morning. “Instead, they are often weaponized by one side or the other to further divide and inflame,” Chapek added. “Simply put, they can be counterproductive and undermine more effective ways to achieve change.”
With hand on bureaucratic heart, the man who used to run DisneyWorld and other theme parks for...
With the openly discrimatory and controversial Parental Rights in Education legislation is scheduled for a vote today in the Sunshine State’s Senate, the boss of one of Florida’s largest employers is sitting on his hands, for now.
“As we have seen time and again, corporate statements do very little to change outcomes or minds,” said the Disney exec in an email sent out to staff this morning. “Instead, they are often weaponized by one side or the other to further divide and inflame,” Chapek added. “Simply put, they can be counterproductive and undermine more effective ways to achieve change.”
With hand on bureaucratic heart, the man who used to run DisneyWorld and other theme parks for...
- 3/7/2022
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
Cultural milestones are worth celebrating, but Simu Liu and Bowen Yang’s Saturday Night Live sketch pokes fun at how far they can go.
The Shang-Chi star and the Emmy-nominated SNL cast member came together to reflect on what a notable night it was for Asian representation for the NBC sketch show. Not too long after, each began musing about the various milestones they’ve reached in their career. For Liu, he was the Marvel’s first Asian super hero. For Yang, he was the first Chinese-American Saturday Night Live cast member.
The number of “First Asian” honors and accolades became a matter of fun competition as each started to present their various awards and medals, which each becoming more obscure and ridiculous. Liu brought up his “First Asian Man to Deadpan on Splash Mountain” plaque and Yang brought up his “Good (Asian)” award from the state of Michigan.
As...
The Shang-Chi star and the Emmy-nominated SNL cast member came together to reflect on what a notable night it was for Asian representation for the NBC sketch show. Not too long after, each began musing about the various milestones they’ve reached in their career. For Liu, he was the Marvel’s first Asian super hero. For Yang, he was the first Chinese-American Saturday Night Live cast member.
The number of “First Asian” honors and accolades became a matter of fun competition as each started to present their various awards and medals, which each becoming more obscure and ridiculous. Liu brought up his “First Asian Man to Deadpan on Splash Mountain” plaque and Yang brought up his “Good (Asian)” award from the state of Michigan.
As...
- 11/21/2021
- by Alexandra Del Rosario
- Deadline Film + TV
Earlier this week, Nineties MTV sketch comedy group The State reunited via Zoom to raise money for the NAACP and the California Immigrants Resilience Fund. Fans that paid $20 were able to see them tell old stories, auction off props and recreate some of their greatest sketches, including The Bearded Men of Space Station Eleven, Monkey Torture and Taco Mailman.
The show opened up with a new version of The Jew, The Italian and the Redhead Gay for the Covid-19 era. In this one, the Jew (David Wain) needs money for...
The show opened up with a new version of The Jew, The Italian and the Redhead Gay for the Covid-19 era. In this one, the Jew (David Wain) needs money for...
- 6/12/2020
- by Andy Greene
- Rollingstone.com
In today’s film news roundup, Iatse backs Joe Biden, “Toy Story 4” director Josh Cooley is attached to Sony’s “Malamander,” electric car racing documentary “And We Go Green” is going to Hulu and the inaugural OUTstream Film Fest sets its lineup.
Biden Endorsement
The general executive board of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees has voted unanimously to endorse presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden for president of the United States.
The below-the-line union, which has about 150,000 members in North America, cited his “extensive record and history of fighting for workers’ rights and working families” in a statement Tuesday.
“Labor unions are under assault, with policies under the current administration and across the country undermining workers’ collective bargaining rights and stripping union workers of the wages, benefits, and retirement security they deserve,” Iatse said. “Joe Biden has consistently lifted up and prioritized issues affecting Iatse members and their...
Biden Endorsement
The general executive board of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees has voted unanimously to endorse presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden for president of the United States.
The below-the-line union, which has about 150,000 members in North America, cited his “extensive record and history of fighting for workers’ rights and working families” in a statement Tuesday.
“Labor unions are under assault, with policies under the current administration and across the country undermining workers’ collective bargaining rights and stripping union workers of the wages, benefits, and retirement security they deserve,” Iatse said. “Joe Biden has consistently lifted up and prioritized issues affecting Iatse members and their...
- 5/19/2020
- by Dave McNary
- Variety Film + TV
Three years after finishing “The Human Centipede” trilogy, writer-director Tom Six is officially set to return to theaters with his latest horror shocker “The Onania Club.” The filmmaker is keeping plot specifics about the movie under wraps for now, but he is promising the physiological thriller features “mostly strong female characters” and will “definitely pass the Bechdel test with flying colors.” The cast includes Jessica Morris, Darcy DeMoss, Deborah Twiss, Karen Strassman, and Flo Lawrence.
While plot details are remaining a mystery, “The Onania Club” is set in Hollywood, California. The exclusive release promises the movie “will be one of the most vile, inhumane movie experiences of all time.” Anyone who has seen “The Human Centipede” films know Six can more than deliver on this promise. The movie is produced by Tom Six and Ilona Six through their Six Entertainment Company production banner.
In addition to “The Human Centipede” films,...
While plot details are remaining a mystery, “The Onania Club” is set in Hollywood, California. The exclusive release promises the movie “will be one of the most vile, inhumane movie experiences of all time.” Anyone who has seen “The Human Centipede” films know Six can more than deliver on this promise. The movie is produced by Tom Six and Ilona Six through their Six Entertainment Company production banner.
In addition to “The Human Centipede” films,...
- 5/22/2018
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
Wait, what’s this? An award show that is actually fun? And award show that makes me laugh? An award show that doesn’t put me into a deep and catatonic sleep? Clearly, I’m in some sort of alternate universe. But no, instead it was the 61st annual Emmy Awards telecast last night.
The show honoring the best and brightest in television handed out lots of pointy-winged statuettes to deserving people. And from start to finish (Ok, there was a lull there during the reality/miniseries segments) it made for pretty damn good TV. A look at some of the night’s highlights.
Best Conspiracy: The supporting actress in a comedy nominees
At Amy Poehler's urging, the actresses all wore silly eyewear as their nominations were called out. All, that is, except for Vanessa Williams who gave a very Wilhelmina Slater scowl instead.
Best Reason to Wish You...
The show honoring the best and brightest in television handed out lots of pointy-winged statuettes to deserving people. And from start to finish (Ok, there was a lull there during the reality/miniseries segments) it made for pretty damn good TV. A look at some of the night’s highlights.
Best Conspiracy: The supporting actress in a comedy nominees
At Amy Poehler's urging, the actresses all wore silly eyewear as their nominations were called out. All, that is, except for Vanessa Williams who gave a very Wilhelmina Slater scowl instead.
Best Reason to Wish You...
- 9/21/2009
- by dorothy snarker
- AfterEllen.com
Fangoria's Weekend of Horror, happening this weekend in New York City, is a queer smorgashborg, Brian Juergens at AfterElton reports. One of the queer films premiering at the weekend bloody event is Alan Rowe Kelly's A Far Cry From Home.
Our own Michael Diebler caught a screener of Kelly's film, and says of it "...A Far Cry From Home is good. I realize I’m making a lot of criticisms, I’m just pointing out things that could make it better in the future. Kelly has a good piece of work here, and if you’re given the opportunity to see it, I recommend you take it. A Far Cry From Home is able to achieve some of the goals crucial to producing quality gay cinema, and while it has its flaws, it’s definitely a cinematic step in the right direction."
(Read the rest of the review here.
Our own Michael Diebler caught a screener of Kelly's film, and says of it "...A Far Cry From Home is good. I realize I’m making a lot of criticisms, I’m just pointing out things that could make it better in the future. Kelly has a good piece of work here, and if you’re given the opportunity to see it, I recommend you take it. A Far Cry From Home is able to achieve some of the goals crucial to producing quality gay cinema, and while it has its flaws, it’s definitely a cinematic step in the right direction."
(Read the rest of the review here.
- 6/4/2009
- doorQ.com
As the site's resident horror hound, I'm always on the lookout for queer horror stories to share that don't involve being forced to recap late-season episodes of Brothers & Sisters. (Zing!)
Enter Fangoria, the longest-running and most venerable horror publication, which for decades has been serving up scoops, reviews and musty must-see curiosities to genre fans everywhere. This weekend the mag is hosting its Weekend of Horrors in NYC (at the Javits Center) and it's giving gore-gore gays like me plenty of reasons to attend, the least of all being the premiere of A Far Cry From Home, a nasty hate-crime cautionary tale from queer filmmaker Alan Rowe Kelly.
Kelly and I have been friends for years (you may remember him from the Blood Work! True Blood vlog series) but we met professionally, at a horror film festival in San Francisco where we both had films showing. We've been tight ever since,...
Enter Fangoria, the longest-running and most venerable horror publication, which for decades has been serving up scoops, reviews and musty must-see curiosities to genre fans everywhere. This weekend the mag is hosting its Weekend of Horrors in NYC (at the Javits Center) and it's giving gore-gore gays like me plenty of reasons to attend, the least of all being the premiere of A Far Cry From Home, a nasty hate-crime cautionary tale from queer filmmaker Alan Rowe Kelly.
Kelly and I have been friends for years (you may remember him from the Blood Work! True Blood vlog series) but we met professionally, at a horror film festival in San Francisco where we both had films showing. We've been tight ever since,...
- 6/3/2009
- by brian
- The Backlot
I had never seen any of Alan Rowe Kelly’s films until he contacted me—literally moments after posting my first Gay Of The Dead blog. And yes, that is Alan in the photo to the left. Don’t worry, we’ll get to that later.
Kelly’s opening salvo to me was the grisly, intense and controversial A Far Cry From Home segment from the recently wrapped Gallery Of Fear anthology, which he co-wrote, co-directed and produced for his Southpaw Pictures. From there I jumped back to his first feature, I’LL Bury You Tomorrow, a loopy, sprawling, bloody feature that manages to wind storylines of seven main characters into one big crazy fest. After that, I popped in The Blood Shed, which starts off with a preteen kid being yanked in half and just gets more insane (see: awesome) from there.
After watching Kelly’s films and chatting...
Kelly’s opening salvo to me was the grisly, intense and controversial A Far Cry From Home segment from the recently wrapped Gallery Of Fear anthology, which he co-wrote, co-directed and produced for his Southpaw Pictures. From there I jumped back to his first feature, I’LL Bury You Tomorrow, a loopy, sprawling, bloody feature that manages to wind storylines of seven main characters into one big crazy fest. After that, I popped in The Blood Shed, which starts off with a preteen kid being yanked in half and just gets more insane (see: awesome) from there.
After watching Kelly’s films and chatting...
- 5/13/2009
- Fangoria
Jeff Favreproduction: A Beautiful View, Son of Semele Theatre; Robots vs. Fake Robots, Powerhouse Theatre; Shipwrecked! An Entertainment, Geffen Playhouse.Playwriting: David Largman Murray, Robots vs. Fake Robots.Direction: Don Boughton, A Beautiful View; John Doyle, Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Center Theatre Group, Ahmanson Theatre; Tiger Reel, Cartoon, Art/Works Theatre; Elise Robertson, The Women, Circus Theatricals.Music Direction: Sarah Travis, Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Scenic Design: Simon Higlett, The School of Night, Center Theatre Group, Mark Taper Forum; Christine Jones, Spring Awakening, Center Theatre Group, Ahmanson Theatre; Anthony Ward, My Fair Lady, Center Theatre Group, Ahmanson Theatre.Lighting Design: Russell H. Champa, The School of Night; Richard Jones, Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street.Costume Design: Anthony Ward, My Fair Lady.Sound Design: Dan Moses Schreier, Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street.Perfomance In A (Primarily) Straight Play:Gregory Itzin,...
- 3/11/2009
- backstage.com
We open on … oh dear. There seems to have been some sort of mistake, and my TiVO recorded Regis and Kelly. Which is not just a simple case of DVR malfunction but more evidence of how much my TiVO hates me and is actively trying to drive me insane. Why else would it constantly be suggesting I try watching Ghost Whisperer?
It turns out that Kelly and the Reege have taken time out of their busy schedule shilling for whatever bank Commerce is this week to offer up a B&S cameo. Which makes it exactly three-fifths less irritating than if it had been The View. I’m looking forward to the part where Kitty clamps her hand over Kelly’s mouth, and Kelly says, “Put that away, dear. I don’t know where inside your husband it’s been.”
Kitty is on TV hawking her crappy book that nobody will ever read,...
It turns out that Kelly and the Reege have taken time out of their busy schedule shilling for whatever bank Commerce is this week to offer up a B&S cameo. Which makes it exactly three-fifths less irritating than if it had been The View. I’m looking forward to the part where Kitty clamps her hand over Kelly’s mouth, and Kelly says, “Put that away, dear. I don’t know where inside your husband it’s been.”
Kitty is on TV hawking her crappy book that nobody will ever read,...
- 1/13/2009
- by dennis
- The Backlot
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