By Romeo San Vicente This entire bit of news is a spoiler, we guess. But it’s the good kind. The Marvel Cinematic Universe will finally get an LGBTQ superhero. Valkyrie, played by out star Tessa Thompson, a character we’ve all been hoping would be fleshed out as fully queer, will be getting herself a queen

By Romeo San Vicente Feminist icon Gloria Steinem’s 2015 memoir titled My Life On The Road concerned her childhood, one that saw her moving from place to place, and how it informed her later life as a writer and an activist for women’s rights. Now that book will be a film from director Julie Taymor

By Romeo San Vicente You can probably thank Wonder Woman for the renewed interest in rebooting Red Sonja, the 1985 Brigitte Nielsen/Arnold Schwarzenegger action flop-turned-cult-film. And now that Bryan Singer’s involvement in the project has been terminated (or is that cancelled?) it was the perfect opportunity for Millennium Films to cast a vote of confidence

By Romeo San Vicente Gay documentary filmmaker Jeffrey Schwarz has built a career digging into queer pop culture, exploring how it has shaped the rest of the world. He’s directed Vito, about openly gay film historian and author of The Celluloid Closet Vito Russo. He also made Tab Hunter Confidential, and The Fabulous Alan Carr,

By Romeo San Vicente Valentino, McQueen, YSL, Halston, Diana Vreeland, Andre Leon Talley, and the entire September issue of Vogue magazine: they’ve all had documentaries made about them. And if you’re fashion doc devotees like us you’ve spent your days wondering when the legendary Bob Mackie, costume designer for Cher, Carol Burnett, and countless others,

By Romeo San Vicente The 1970s were a wild time at the movies for black filmmakers and audiences. A renaissance of low-budget genre movies like Shaft, Superfly, and Foxy Brown blew up box offices nationwide, and one of the most enduring characters was Dolemite, in a film of the same name, played by actor Rudy

By Romeo San Vicente We are always rooting for Britney Spears. We know that right now, as of this column, her personal life has hit a bit of a rough patch, and the messages coming through to the public are mixed, so it’s tough to know what’s really happening. But we live in hope that

By Romeo San Vicente Sometimes Emmy Award winner Lena Waithe takes a break from being the Power Lesbian of All Hollywood, a breather from creating or writing or executive producing and running TV shows like Master of None, The Chi, and most recently BET’s series adaptation of the Eddie Murphy film Boomerang. Sometimes she just

By Romeo San Vicente Ryan Murphy has yet another new show in the works. It’s called _The Politician_, it’s coming to Netflix, and it stars that adorable (and now openly gay) Ben Platt as a high school student convinced he’s going to be president someday, but who must first navigate the choppy, ruthless waters of

By Romeo San Vicente It was inevitable. It’s an impossible task trying to keep Hugh Jackman from busting out his song-and-dance-man persona. He loves musical theater so much we imagine he just walks down busy streets trying to get everyone around him to burst into song and perform meticulously choreographed group dance numbers. So it’s