Film Maudit 2.0 Film Festival presents experimental and queer works online -Jan 12 to Feb 11, 2023

posted Tuesday, January 10, 2023

by: Bryen Dunn in Film

The fourth edition of Film Maudit 2.0 is available to stream online from January 12 to February 11, 2023. Inspired by French avant-garde filmmaker and writer Jean Cocteau, who created the original Festival du Film Maudit (literally “cursed films”) in 1949, Maudit 2.0 aims to celebrate overlooked, shocking and experimental films with a showcase and celebration of outré […]

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August – gay romance involving a couple, and an ex-boyfriend

posted Thursday, January 5, 2023

by: Bryen Dunn in Film, Queer, Streaming Online

On the verge of his 30th birthday, Jonathan (Daniel Dugan) is torn between the domestic comfort of his life with Raul (Adrian Gonzalez) and the torrid pleasures of an affair with his ex-boyfriend Troy (Murray Bartlett, Looking, Tales From The City, White Lotus). Troy and Jonathan reunite after a long ago painful breakup. After spending […]

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Out On Screen launches Programming Disruptor Fellowship for emerging BIPOC 2SLGBTQIA+ film curators

posted Tuesday, January 3, 2023

by: Bryen Dunn in Activism, Film, Queer, Vancouver

Vancouver’s Out On Screen have launched a new training and mentorship initiative for emerging BIPOC 2SLGBTQIA+ film curators. Led by their new Artistic Director, Charlie Hidalgo, the Programming Disruptor Fellowship will select three emerging film programmers who identify as BIPOC 2SLGBTQIA+, who will have the opportunity to be an integral part of the curation of the Vancouver Queer […]

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Scrooge & Marley – a queer spin on a Christmas classic

posted Friday, December 23, 2022

by: Bryen Dunn in Film, Queer, Streaming Online

Scrooge & Marley is a modern day, queer variation on Charles Dickens’ classic, “A Christmas Carol.” Recounted from a gay sensibility with heart, comedy and music direct from Screws gay bar! The magic of Dickens’ timeless tale comes alive from a fresh perspective that will appeal to audiences of all persuasions. A gay successful piano […]

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Going All The Way: The Director’s Edit – 1997 classic bromance gets a new 4K re-edit

posted Monday, December 19, 2022

by: Bryen Dunn in Film

Mark Pellington’s wonderful 1997 Sundance Film Festival hit Going All The Way was his debut feature, and now a quarter century later it’s being re-released in a new, never-before-seen 4K re-edit version titled, Going All The Way: The Director’s Edit. It’s a timeless story of freedom and repression, friendship and family, sex and love, and the […]

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REVIVAL69: The Concert That Rocked The World at Toronto’s Varsity Stadium

posted Wednesday, December 14, 2022

by: Bryen Dunn in Film, Music, Toronto, Vancouver

REVIVAL69: The Concert that Rocked the World, tells the incredible behind-the-scenes, story of how, against all odds, a life-changing concert came together. A story of passion and perseverance, this never-before documented story reveals a series of colourful characters, murky deals and broken promises, culminating in John Brower, a young renegade promoter, putting his life on […]

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The Christmas Tapes – sometimes the holidays can be filled with horror

posted Monday, December 12, 2022

by: Bryen Dunn in Film, Streaming Online

In Robert Livings and Randy Nundlall Jr.’s Christmas-Horror Anthology THE CHRISTMAS TAPES, a family’s movie night on Christmas Eve is interrupted by a stranger, insistent on making the next Christmas ‘classic’ film himself. It’s is a throwback to the anthology films of the 80’s and 90’s, but with a modern found-footage twist. Christmas Horror is a […]

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The Holiday Sitter – Hallmark Channel’s first queer holiday rom-com

posted Saturday, December 10, 2022

by: Bryen Dunn in Film, Queer, Streaming Online

For the first time, a Hallmark holiday movie features a LGBTQ couple as the focus in The Holiday Sitter. Not only does it feature a queer focused cast, but also queer talent behind the scenes as well. Sam (Jonathan Bennett) is a workaholic bachelor who babysits his niece and nephew before the holidays when his […]

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Boulevard: A Hollywood Story – Gloria Swanson’s failed attempt to make a Sunset Boulevard musical, and the queer twist to it all

posted Saturday, December 10, 2022

by: Bryen Dunn in Film, Queer, Streaming Online

Boulevard: A Hollywood Story, tells the real-life tale of Gloria Swanson, the iconic star of Sunset Boulevard, which both the movie and her character of Norma Desmond provided a renewed spotlight. Seeing in Norma a portal back to the stardom she once commanded as a silent screen superstar, Swanson began to envision a musical stage […]

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Free Hot Docs Cinema Holiday Screenings Throughout December

posted Tuesday, December 6, 2022

by: Bryen Dunn in Events, Family, Featured Events, Film, Toronto

Holiday cheer will be spread at Hot Docs Cinema’s Free Festive Favourites series screenings, featuring the Christmas slasher Black Christmas, the 1984 black comedy-horror Gremlins, the lavish Technicolor Irving Berlin musical White Christmas, the beloved Dickens’ adaptation and cult-classic The Muppet Christmas Carol; the nostalgic comedy A Christmas Story; the 1990 family blockbuster Home Alone; Frank Capra’s heartwarming classic It’s a Wonderful Life; Bruce […]

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