By Romeo San Vicente Academy Award winner Cate Blanchett (fun fact: she was the first actor in history to win an Academy Award for portraying another Academy Award winner, Katherine Hepburn) will star in Pedro Almodovar’s first English-language feature, “A Manual for Cleaning Women.” The film will adapt Lucia Berlin’s collection of short stories of

By Romeo San Vicente  Jennifer Coolidge had a very good 2021. She was simultaneously sympathetic and villainous in “The White Lotus,” disgruntled and bitter in the under-appreciated indie “Swan Song” With Udo Kier. And in Netflix’s “Single All the Way,” she was the comedy MVP of a queer Christmas rom-com, shouting at children in a

By Romeo San Vicente Queer sports history lesson time: the late Glenn Burke was a Black professional baseball player for the Los Angeles Dodgers and then the Oakland A’s in the late 1970s. He was also the first Major League Baseball player to come out as gay to his teammates during his career and, later,

By Romeo San Vicente We are huge fans of trans actor Alexandra Billings. She’s the reason we didn’t bail on “The Conners.” And it’s exciting to watch a performer come into their own on-screen, which is how it seems to be going for her. Next, she’ll step into a role in the upcoming Amazon original

By Romeo San Vicente She wrote and starred in the sitcom “One Mississippi.” She’s about to be streaming in Zack Snyder’s Netflix film “Army of the Dead.” She visited “Star Trek: Discovery.” She’s also co-directing a feature film “Am I OK?” that will star Dakota Johnson. But before all that Tig Notaro was a stand-up

By Romeo San Vicente   A Christmas-themed rom-com going where Hallmark still hasn’t, “Single All the Way” promises to turn Netflix into a queer Santa’s Village. Michael Mayer, the Tony Award-winning director of “Spring Awakening,” is taking on the project that stars Michael Urie, newcomer Philemon Chambers and veteran Hallmark Channel leading man Luke Macfarlane (who is openly gay but

Romeo San Vicente Legendary TV creator Norman Lear, who’ll be 99 years old this July, has a new project in the works with Amazon’s IMDbTV, a new premium free streaming service. The comedy is called “Clean Slate” and it’ll star Laverne Cox and veteran comedian George Wallace. Created by Cox, Wallace, and screenwriter Dan Ewen

By Romeo San Vicente While you wait for that “Call Me By Your Name” sequel that may or may not ever happen, Luca Guadagnino is lining up another collaboration with Timothée Chalamet. The project is called “Bones & All,” written by Dave Kajganich (“A Bigger Splash,” “Suspiria”) with Guadagnino directing. Under super-secret wraps at the

By Romeo San Vicente The recently published debut short story collection by writer Deesha Philyaw, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies, has already been met with critical acclaim and was a finalist for the 2020 National Book Award for Fiction. Now Hollywood has come calling for the author, as Tessa Thompson (Westworld, Sylvie’s Love) and