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Drag Race Star Alaska Met Her Music Video's Director on Scruff
Don't be surprised if Alaska Thunderfuck pops up next time you turn on a mobile dating app! While many gay men log on to Grindr, Scruff and the like to window shop while bored, meet a mate or interact...
View ArticleThe Linda Perry Project: Breaking the Old, Making the New
Just over a month ago, I temporarily moved to a remote region of Utah to work in quiet and isolation on a book. My plan was simple - I would minimize technological distractions in my life, using the...
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How Barry Manilow Inspired A Young Teen Who Was Being Bullied
Recently, I had the opportunity to see Linda, a friend who grew up next door to me in Long Island. It had been many years since we'd seen each other and there was so much to catch up on. We started to...
View Article7 Reasons Why Boredom Is Good For You
To rework an old Jean-Paul Sartre line: If you're bored when you're alone, you're in bad company. Boredom itself isn't a sign that you need some distraction; it's a sign that you've grown addicted to...
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The Black Panther Unleashed
Storms of Carnage: The Black Panther Unleashed, is probably one of the best fan films made in ages. At 12,000 views and growing over the last two weeks, I tracked down the director and star of this...
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The MovieFilm Podcast: Unpacking Guardians of the Galaxy!
We mark two years of the MovieFilm Podcast with this week's installment, and Brian and I have plenty to discuss, including the Batman v. Superman Comic Con footage, Wonder Woman's new look, the...
View Article23 Things That Were at the 'On The Run Tour' at the Rose Bowl
Beyonce: Looking literally flawless. As flawless in person as she appears on film and in pictures, which I didn't know was humanly possible. Jay Z: Not quite as flawless as Beyonce, but still much more...
View ArticleJames Brown Biopic: Should Life Stories Really Include Fabricated Incidents?
There is a scene in James Brown biopic Get On Up where the singer walks into a meeting and accidentally discharges a shotgun. The incident is fabricated. It is true that on September 24, 1988, Brown...
View ArticleIt Really Is a Fab Honor Just to Be Emmy-Nominated
As someone who has worked as a writer on an award show or two hundred, and as a man who's semi-frequently Red Carpet-adjacent sweating profusely in a tuxedo, I have heard and personally mouthed the...
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The Hundred-Foot Journey Producer Juliet Blake Talks Strong Female...
These questions originally appeared on Quora. Answers by Juliet Blake, Producer of The Hundred-Foot Journey Part Two of Juliet Blake's Reflections on The Hundred-Foot Journey... What impact do films...
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A Q&A With Latina Journalist and Multimedia Dynamo, Nina Terrero
If we had to create a math equation to describe today's interviewee, I imagine it would go something like this: (Energy + Charisma + Fun) x Dedication = Nina Terrero. Whether covering the latest in...
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A Star Wars Conspiracy Theory Debunked
This question originally appeared on Quora: Did the Rebel Alliance really blow up the Death Star, or was it all planned by Vader and the Emperor to drum up support for their war against the terrorists?...
View ArticleRemembering Robert Altman in a Documentary on EPIX
When critics talk about the heyday of American filmmaking in the 1970's, director Robert Altman was not only a part of that flourishing, he was at the forefront. With movies like McCabe & Mrs....
View ArticleThe James Brown I Remember
That evening at a concert in the late 1960s, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, was memorable. The performer was James Brown. And as always, he was the usual frenetic, non-stop, consummate...
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Something Wonderful in Denmark: Hamlet at the UN
As far as Security Council presidencies go, British Ambassador Mark Lyall Grant began his stint with a splash - a live performance of the Globe Theatre's Hamlet to an enthusiastic crowd at the United...
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Clive Owen Says His Character in New Cinemax Series The Knick is Unlike...
In person, Golden Globe winning actor Clive Owen is courteous and charming to a fault with a little English schoolboy mischief thrown in. In the thrilling new Steven Soderbergh-directed series, The...
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Alastair Fothergill Reveals the Bare Facts About Disneynature's Latest...
For three weeks back in 2012, a team of photographers had their cameras trained on an Alaskan bear den. All with the hope that -- when the mother and her just-born cubs who were inside finally emerged...
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Space as Fun Zone: Hour of the Wolf Movie Review of Guardians of the Galaxy
Welcome to August, the month when studios, having already fired off all their high-profile (not to mention high concept) summer guns, unleash what amounts to their second tier of releases, the stuff...
View Article10 Things White Privilege Has Done for Me in 10 Days
Some of the things I write most about are racism, sexism, misogynoir, and inequality in American media and pop culture, specifically the underrepresentation of women of color in the aforementioned. The...
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Going Green at Guild Hall's Garden as Art Tour
Your first perception as you drive up to Fred Stelle's serene North Haven waterfront acreage is Wow, fruit trees. Pears aplenty not yet ripe. Abundant apples showing a blush, anticipating autumn. And...
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