The Miseducation of Cameron Post, directed by Desiree Akhavan and based on the book by Emily M. Danforth, is essentially a serious version of the campy classic But I’m a Cheerleader. Chloë Grace Moretz plays Cameron, a young lesbian living with her conservative aunt in 1993 Montana. After her boyfriend discovers her in the back of […]
I’m not sure if I, Tonya was deliberately timed to coincide with the Winter Olympics, but either way figure skating is having a moment. It’s probably the campest of sports, largely thanks to all the sequins, so I’m happy. Much like boxing and ballet, figure skating seems ripe for film dramatization thanks to it having so much […]
So off off Broadway that it’s in Toronto; Loverboy was invited to take a peek of the modern pavement of the yellow brick road in a sultry adaptation of The Wizard of Oz entitled ‘Ruby Red Burlesque’. We sat, we drank, and we watched as our childhood was revamped and queered-the-house-down-boots. Writer/Director Cameron Chase’s rehashing […]
It started with a photo. Entitled Samurai Sissy, the stark black and white 1979 portrait by French artist and conceptualist Jean-Paul Goude depicted steel-cheekboned Amazonian black supermodel turned disco chanteuse Grace Jones wrapped in a dramatic padded-shouldered Issey Miyake creation. At the time Goude and Jones were both artistic and romantic collaborators (he’s the father […]
‘How far will a 32 year-old virgin go to possess a 19 year-old boy?’ That’s the question posed by Robert Altman’s disturbing 1969 psychological thriller That Cold Day in the Park. Set in rain-drenched Vancouver, it sees introverted and mousey but affluent spinster Frances Austen (Sandy Dennis) encounter a seemingly mute and homeless teenaged waif (Michael Burns) on […]
We love a good sleeper hit. They come out of nowhere, catch you off guard and totally blow you away. We say that but Jurassic World is obviously the exception. Chris Pratt & dinosaurs? That was always going to be a winner. Back to Midnight Special…. Besides being the very definition of a sleeper hit, there are […]
We so hope Mariah Carey isn’t Facebook creeping us right now. Because if she is, it’s only a matter of time before her Jack Russells come for us. You see yesterday we made a faux-pas. A slight inaccuracy. A slip of the tongue. We posted a video of Ariana Grande performing her new single, ‘Dangerous Woman’, […]
