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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Homebody – comedic gender-queer body transfer “Freaky Friday” flick

posted Tuesday, December 6, 2022

by: Bryen Dunn in Film, Queer, Streaming Online

Homebody is a lighthearted, genderqueer comedy, expanded from Joseph Sackett’s 2018 short I Was in Your Blood. Young Johnny Colby Minifie, The Boys) discovers a YouTube video that teaches him how to send his spirit out of his body and into his beloved babysitter Melanie. He can see through her eyes and operate her from […]

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Waking Up Dead – queer comedy actor gets second chance to audition for a lead role

posted Saturday, December 3, 2022

by: Bryen Dunn in Film, Queer, Streaming Online

Waking Up Dead follows actor Danny Maldonado, who was once about to conquer Hollywood. but now, just a few years later, his career has flatlined. When he receives a call in to audition for the lead role in the most talked-about new series in Hollywood, Danny vows to clean up his act, but is it […]

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Adam in Fragments – the grit and grind of LA’s sex work industry

posted Tuesday, November 29, 2022

by: Bryen Dunn in Film, Queer, Streaming Online

After a prolonged disappearance, Adam (Beau Swartz) reluctantly returns to sex work. Following the urge to protect a young aspiring adult film star, Lucy (Keiva Bradley), from their terrorizing handler, Felix (Francisco Antonio), Adam’s actions trigger a series of events that send violent ripples through Los Angeles underground sex-trade. Featuring supporting performances from Jonathan Miller, […]

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Spector – mini-series looks at the life of a musical genius, and the spectacle that ended his life

posted Tuesday, November 22, 2022

by: Bryen Dunn in Music, Streaming Online

SPECTOR is a four-part documentary series about music producer Phil Spector, and what happened on the fateful night when actress Lana Clarkson was shot dead in his mansion. Through the lens of police records for this notorious crime, along with the infamous trial that followed, the series peels back the layers of what actually happened that night, […]

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Aussie Boys – seven short stories from Australia, with a queer twist

posted Saturday, November 19, 2022

by: Bryen Dunn in Queer, Streaming Online

With Aussie Boys, you can take a trip ‘Down Under’ and witness seven stories about the lives and loves of these men and boys from across Australia. From historical beginnings in the 1600’s all the way through to noughties truck stop dilemmas, to present day road trip romancing, and faces from the past returning for […]

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European Union Film Festival returns with a hybrid in-person/online program from 27 countries – Nov 17 to Dec 2, 2022 (Toronto)

posted Tuesday, November 15, 2022

by: Bryen Dunn in Film, Streaming Online, Toronto

The European Union Film Festival returns to Toronto with in-person audiences from November 17th to December 2nd, 2022, and will also continue to offer an online festival until December 10th, by releasing one film per day for viewing online. Each film will be available for a period of two days and accessible across Canada. The […]

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Hit CBC TV Series “SORT OF” Returns for Season 2, premiering on Nov 15, 2022

posted Tuesday, November 15, 2022

by: Bryen Dunn in Queer, Streaming Online, Television

Co-created by Bilal Baig and Fab Filippo, Sort Of is a made-in-Canada series debuted its first season last year and has since been both embraced and adored by audiences around the world with its approach to, yes, queerness but also the universal experience of transition. The big-hearted series features Sabi Mehboob (played by Baig), a gender-fluid […]

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Pomegranate Film Festival celebrates Armenian inspired films – until Nov 13, 2022 (Toronto)

posted Friday, November 11, 2022

by: Bryen Dunn in Film, Streaming Online, Toronto

The Pomegranate Film Festival celebrates Armenian inspired film. Established in 2006 stems from the Toronto Chapter of the Hamazkayin Armenian Educational and Cultural Society, a group of young Armenian professionals, bound by a passion for film and culture. Fresh, dynamic, prolific, and rich with culture, it depicts topics relevant Armenian culture through the medium of films […]

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Interview With The Vampire – a modern, historical queer fantasy love story

posted Thursday, November 10, 2022

by: Bryen Dunn in Film, Queer, Streaming Online

It’s been nearly five decades since Anne Rice released Interview with the Vampire (1976) , the first of a series of novels that would garner her fans worldwide. It also was turned into a major Hollywood blockbuster movie, starring Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise in somewhat homoerotic roles. Those homoerotic illusions have now become a […]

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