The Film 'Heartland' Tells the Story of Coming of Age and Coming Out in Oklahoma
The film Heartland is not your typical coming out film. "We will always have stories about 'coming out,'" says the movie's director and producer Maura Anderson, "but I think it's important that movies...
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With INFINITY, Raquel Pomplun and L. Philippe Casseus Team Up to Launch an...
Let me tell you, I dig smart indies, I dig epic action franchises, and I dig ambitious storytelling. How pleasing, then, to leap into INFINITY, the bold new startup movie series in the vein of Lost,...
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To Hell With Bill Cosby? Disney Already Did That With The Devil and Max Devlin
Like a lot of you folks out there, I don't exactly know how to feel about Bill Cosby right now. I mean, the man is a comedy legend. As a kid, I listened constantly to Cosby's comedy albums and...
View ArticleMy Conversation With Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Gina Prince-Bythewood
Tonight I'm joined by British actress Gugu Mbatha-Raw, who earlier this year drew rave reviews for her breakout role in Belle, and acclaimed director Gina Prince-Bythewood to talk about their new...
View ArticleWhy I Hope One Direction's Harry Styles Is Really Straight
Lately I've been thinking about One Direction a lot more than usual, which used to be almost never. Don't ring the alarm. No impure thoughts have been creeping into my head, nor has the boy band's...
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Here Is Your Ultimate Guide to the 10 Best Holiday Movies of All Time
Ahhhh, the holidays. Well, they're not here yet, but they sure are creeping up on us. And what do we all associate the holidays with? Well, besides scrambling to buy the most unique and thoughtful...
View ArticleTheir 'Hunger Games' Are Our 'Food Chains'
I'm looking forward to November 21st this year for two reasons: Food Chains and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay. And you should as well. Especially if you live in "The Capitol." I'm a full on dedicated...
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Q and A: Anjelica Huston
Anjelica Huston has packed in enough living to fill four memoirs, but thus far she's wrapped up only two. Her second installment Watch Me: A Memoir continues in the charming and intimate tone of last...
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Bedlam Overtakes Jane Austen, While F. Scott Fitzgerald Sings
Andrus Nichols, Vaishnavi Sharma, Kate Hamill and Samantha Steinmetz in Sense and Sensibility. Photo: Elizabeth Nichols New York theatergoers with an adventurous spirit -- or mainstream theatergoers...
View Article'Pitch Perfect' Keeps Making Rape Jokes. It's Not A Laughing Matter.
"Pitch Perfect" returned this week with a new trailer for its sequel. Fans of the popular a cappella series rejoiced. The first film was a big hit, considered a sleeper that did relatively well at the...
View ArticleBill Cosby: Are We Getting It All Wrong on Sexual Assault
It seems like every day there are new accusations coming out against Bill Cosby, once America's favorite dad and comedian, suggesting that he has sexually assaulted more than a dozen women over the...
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Baron Wolman: Unseen Woodstock
Baron Wolman was Rolling Stone magazine's first photographer, working with stars such as Janis Joplin, The Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, and all the greats of the day. In...
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Grey's Anatomy Recap: McDreamy and Meredith Are Finished in 'Risk'
Note: Do not read on if you have not seen Season 11, Episode 8 of ABC's Grey's Anatomy, titled "Risk." I will not even front: I sat, mouth agape, during that entire last scene. I know, I know, I always...
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Super Smash Bros. for Wii U Review
For the last 15 years of my life, Super Smash Bros. has been apart of it. Beginning with the 1999 release of that first Smash game for the Nintendo 64, altered the course of many of my nights through...
View ArticleRemembering Mike Nichols, His Insight and His Introduction to Jacqueline...
In the early seventies I had the honor of dating Mike Nichols. In no way is my remembrance meant to take away from the love he had for the fascinating and the cherished Diane Sawyer who also has been...
View ArticleOld Dogs & New Tricks: The Oral History of a 'Gay' Web Series (Part 2)
Carrie and Co. Whether you love HBO's groundbreaking millennial hit or simply prefer to hate on it for its deference to conspicuous consumption, there's no denying that Sex and the City was, and still...
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TWICEYOUNG Show How Nashville Is So Much More Than Country
Nashville may be known for its abundance of top quality country music, but many people don't realize that over the past several years, other musicians have made it their home, and they are changing the...
View ArticleTaylor Swift Left Nashville a Long Time Ago Folks
It seems Taylor Swift is everywhere these days except Nashville. The guy selling newspapers on the corner in the nation's capital listening to gospel tunes through his ear buds has heard her newest...
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Filming Killing: 'Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait' by Ossama Mohammed and...
It is a shocking film: Ossama Mohammed and Wiam Simav Bedixan's Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait, featuring the footage of the ongoing killing going on in Syria, filmed by the people struck by and...
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Best of Abu Dhabi: Aditya Vikram Sengupta's Labour of Love
"A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet." -- Orson Welles Those who know me have heard this story quite a few times, the one about how I called it a wrap and...
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