By Romeo San Vicente There are only so many loony B-movies an Academy Award-winning actor can willingly be in before the idea of satire raises its sarcastic little head. And so it has, in the form of the upcoming Lionsgate action-comedy The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, starring the Ghost Rider* himself, Nicolas Cage, and

By Romeo San Vicente The queer child having to deal with conservative parents is, at this point, a cliché in LGBTQ+ dramas about family conflict, but Viggo Mortensen’s new film, Falling, will put its own spin on the familiar narrative trope. Mortensen writes, directs, and stars in the film as the gay son who chooses

By Romeo San Vicente The CBS All Access series Star Trek: Discovery will continue to fulfill the franchise’s progressive ideals and for the upcoming third season include the show’s first transgender and non-binary characters. Queer characters already existed in the ST:D universe, played by Anthony Rapp and Wilson Cruz, so the addition of the two

By Romeo San Vicente It was inevitable. First there was the 30 Rock remote reunion, then one from the late, great cult sitcom Happy Endings. This month, the horror movie Host – directed remotely and shot entirely via Zoom – premiered on streaming platforms. And here comes Connecting, a new sitcom for NBC, about a

By Romeo San Vicente True fans of the late Roy Halston already dug deep into Halston, last year’s documentary that wore his last name. And it seemed like 2020 was going to give us another helping, this time a narrative mini-series starring Ewan McGregor as the late designer whose name defined sophisticated ’70s glamour. You

By Romeo San Vicente Pablo Larraín (‘Jackie’) is set to direct and Kristen Stewart to play Princess Diana in _Spencer_, a drama written by Steven Knight (‘Peaky Blinders’) about one critical weekend in the early ’90s life of the princess, and the freeing consequences of decisions she made then. In other words, it’s a biopic of sorts, but one

By Romeo San Vicente Think back to that flash of a moment in 2017’s live-action remake of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, the one where it seemed that Gaston’s (Luke Evans) sidekick LeFou (Josh Gad) was, in effect, coming out as gay. We call it a flash because if you blinked you missed it –

By Romeo San Vicente Now that the 1980s are officially vintage and the subject of period films, a mini-wave of projects about the first decade of AIDS has taken hold: Yen Tan’s indie drama 1985, the documentary How To Survive a Plague, the French ACT-UP-themed drama BPM, and FX’s Pose incorporates HIV storylines into its