posted Thursday, March 25, 2021
HBO’s TINA, a feature documentary is a revealing and intimate look at the life and career of musical icon Tina Turner, charting her improbable rise to early fame, her personal and professional struggles throughout her life and her even more improbable resurgence as a global phenomenon in the 1980s. This unvarnished, dynamic account features insightful […]
posted Friday, March 19, 2021
Rose (Ann Skelly) is at university studying veterinary science. An only child, she has enjoyed a loving relationship with her adoptive parents. However, for as long as Rose can remember she has wanted to know who her biological parents are and the facts of her true identity. After years trying to trace her birth mother, […]
posted Friday, March 19, 2021
LUZ is the latest film from writer/director Jon Garcia. Ruben (Ruben-Ernesto Reyes) is a young latino man who’s fallen into the world of the mafiosos. When an accident leads him into incarceration, his relationship with the cartel and with his family is strained. While in prison, he falls in the complex hierarchical system until his […]
posted Friday, March 19, 2021
Wojnarowicz: F**k You F*ggot F**ker is a in-your-face documentary portrait of downtown New York City artist, writer, photographer, and activist David Wojnarowicz. As New York City became the epicenter of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s, Wojnarowicz weaponized his work and waged war against the establishment’s indifference to the plague until his death from it […]
posted Tuesday, March 16, 2021
Based on the critically acclaimed graphic novel, Days of the Bagnold Summer is a funny yet sweet coming-of-age story about single motherhood and Metallica. Daniel was supposed to spend the summer with his dad and his dad’s new wife in Florida, but when his dad cancels the trip Daniel and his mom suddenly face the […]
posted Sunday, March 14, 2021
BOYS ON FILM 21 takes you on a voyage of self-discovery, where same-sex attraction is celebrated, first loves are tenderly formulated, and beautiful secrets burn and bloom. Featuring over two hours from the world’s best filmmaking talent from Australia, Canada, Romania, Switzerland, the UK, USA and even the Isle of Wight: MEMOIRS OF A GEEZA […]
posted Saturday, March 13, 2021
Sampson McCormick, award winning veteran, black queer comedy pioneer and filmmaker, recently completed his newest film “Love The One You’re With“, which is currently streaming on Amazon Prime. This comes on the heels of his most recent, highly acclaimed comedy special “Church Boy”, filmed at the DC Comedy Loft. The film “Love The One You’re […]
posted Wednesday, March 10, 2021
Goodbye Seventies is the latest feature film from pioneering arthouse filmmaker Todd Verow. Verow’s debut feature Frisk was released in the mid-90s, blazing a trail in the early era of gay indie forebears Swoon, Poison, and The Living End. Since then, he has directed over twenty-five feature films and numerous shorts, establishing himself as the […]
posted Tuesday, March 9, 2021
Russel (Thomas Duplessie) is an aspiring drag queen from Toronto who just broke up with his boyfriend, and decides to head to the Prince Edward County countryside to visit his grandmother Margaret’s (Cloris Leachman). He soon discovers that her health is failing, and her ability to live on her own is becoming problematic. SNAPSHOT REVIEW […]
posted Tuesday, March 9, 2021
Buddies in Bad Times is Toronto’s leading destination for artistically rigorous alternative theatre and a world leader in developing queer voices and stories for the stage. Buddies offers a year-round program that includes a full season of queer theatre, new works festivals, artist residencies, and intergenerational training and education initiatives. This past year, we have witnessed […]
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