Posts Tagged ‘gay’
R.I.P., Blake Edwards
Kristian LinOne of Oklahoma’s greatest gifts to the moviegoing world is dead. Yesterday, director Blake Edwards passed away at the age of 88. That name might not mean much to you if you’re under a certain age. That’s what...
Amber Heard Is Gay! (Yay!)
Kristian LinLooks like I have a new name to add to my list of Not Straight Actors. Over the weekend, Hollywood actress and Austin native Amber Heard went public with the news that she is gay while attending a GLAAD event with her new girlf...
Willow Palin, Mean Girl
Kristian LinHere’s a bigger internet brushfire than whether hackers are keeping Bristol Palin on Dancing With the Stars. Responding to a poster named Tre criticizing the new reality TV show Sarah Palin’s Alaska, Bristol’s...
Joel Burns ‘Better’ Outs Worst
Jeff PrinceFort Worth city councilman Joel Burns is getting national and international exposure and kudos for his moving speech earlier this week. Reader comments are predominantly positive on web sites that carried the story. A reader at...
Prop. 8 Struck Down
Kristian LinOne day after a watershed moment for religious tolerance comes encouraging news from the other coast, as U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker rules California’s ban on gay marriages unconstitutional. The openly gay Bus...
Ticked Off at Ticked-Off Trannies
Transgender activists took to the streets to oppose a locally made movie — and made it more successful than ever.JIMMY FOWLER
At a nondescript house in Arlington last summer, a showdown of cinematic proportions took place. Three women faced off against three men who’d brutally attacked and beaten them earlier. The women wore tight leather jumpsuits,...
More Thoughts on “The Kids Are All Right”
Kristian LinBecause The Kids Are All Right played in Dallas before it came here, I was able to see the film three times before I wrote it up (a luxury that I very seldom enjoy), and I’ve been poring over it the way other people have been...
Curtain’s Up on Q Cinema
Big TicketThe 12th Annual Q Cinema Gay & Lesbian Film Festival boasts half a dozen Southwest premieres including romantic comedies, political documentaries, and dramas about the intersection of religion and homophobia. But the most a...
The Not Gay Actor (or, WTF, Ramin Setoodeh?)
Kristian LinRamin Setoodeh’s recent culture piece in Newsweek last week has set off quite the conflagration in the gay blogosphere, with repercussions for those of us who care deeply about theater, movies, and TV. Let’s start from the ...
La Mission Is Missin’
A stalwart cast can’t redeem Peter Bratt’s maudlin San Francisco affair.JIMMY FOWLER
Watching La Mission is a real whiplash experience. Writer-director Peter Bratt’s second feature follows intense, emotionally resonant scenes with moments that are so ham-fisted and underdeveloped, you have to stifle a giggle....