Professor Marston & the Wonder Women movie review: secret identities (LFF 2017)
A sweet, romantic story about the polyamorous triad that created a beloved superhero… and about the power of comic books to speak to our inner lives.
True Blood
question of the day: How could TV be more experimental?
In what other ways, beyond breaking the fourth wall, could TV do something different? Or is stuff like this simply too arty for mainstream TV audiences? Why isn’t there room, on a hundred-plus channels, for something more arty?
True Blood is the gay-friendliest show on TV (and other adventures in social networking)
Links my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
question of the day: Is “the gaze” (male or female) disempowering for the gazee?
Twilight has ruined vampires, and it’s all women’s fault, doncha know, with our gazing at Edward Cullen…
question of the day: Who are your favorite character actors?
I think my favorite at the moment is Denis O’Hare, who is in absolutely everything all the time, and is always a delight.
things you need to know: sexualized men’s bodies must be homoerotic, for who else would be looking but other men?
If the male body is sexually appealing, it must be sexually appealing to other men. No one else finds men sexually appealing. I mean, look around: Who else would?
‘Harry Potter’ beats up ‘Star Wars’; Michael Caine, psychic author; TV getting gayer; more: leftover links
Plus: the deaths of Stephen J. Cannell, Sally Menke, Gloria Stuart, and Tony Curtis; Armond White is at it again (and so are his adversaries); Chris Noth thinks critics killed Sex and the City; and on and on…
January 8: DVD alternatives to this weekend’s multiplex offerings
We know how it is: You’d like to go to the movies this weekend, except you’re way too scared to actually ask out the girl you like. But you can have a multiplex-like experience at home with a collection of the right DVDs. And when someone asks you on Monday, “Hey, did you see Youth … more…
