Jim Parsons, Robin De Jesus, Michael Benjamin Washington, and Andrew Rannells star in director Joe Mantello’s adaptation of The Boys in the Band
Review by Ash Baker
The Boys in the Band has been called “a time capsule of a dark period for LGBTQ+ Americans.” So, why open the time capsule now?
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Colin Firth and Jon Kortajarena in director Tom Ford’s A Single Man
Retro Review by Ash Baker
While I’m certainly not advocating for narratives that teeter on dangerous clichés, I think it would be dishonest if the LGBT community abandoned “sad” movies. The LGBT community is as diverse as any other, and while we are proud and happy, we are also complex human beings who are capable of sadness, fear, anger, and doubt. I’m not afraid of “sad” LGBT movies; I just want to know that, in the end, we’ll be okay.
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Retro Review by Ash Baker
Before embarking on the journey to Divine’s pepto-bismol-pink mobile home, Cookie says to her employers, “I may have to degrade myself.” This is the mindset I believe everyone should take into watching Pink Flamingos, a movie that asks its audience to laugh at such horrors as incest, kidnapping, murder, cannibalism, and many other acts of unapologetic filth.
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Retro Review by Ash Baker
This film has something to say about musicianship in an age where everyone who has a Macbook or an iPhone has instant songwriting software, and quite a bit more to say about what does or doesn’t make an artist.
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Rhys Fehrenbacher stars as J in director Anahita Ghazvinizadeh’s They
Retro Review by Ash Baker
I would love to have seen a movie about the struggle a young trans/non-binary person faces when they realize their body doesn’t necessarily match their mind. I would love to have seen a movie about how the world behaves in binaries even when some of us don’t fit into them—democrat or republican, gay or straight, male or female, Friends or Seinfeld.
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