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I watched Saltburn last night. I loved it! My thoughts: The less you know going in, the better. It’s a pitch black comedy and a drama. Fantastic cast! It’s definitely NOT for everyone. It’s about love, jealousy, social/economic class, sex, ambition and so much more. It was NOTHING like what I...

I really enjoyed Summer of 85 (streaming on Tubi and Hoopla). When Alex has a boating accident, a stranger David, comes to the rescue. The two French teenagers become friends quickly despite having different outlooks on life. The movie follows their progression from friends to lovers, but it’s...

Same here…they showed a preview before the Dreamworld screening last night. I checked out the full video on YouTube. I was expecting something along the lines of Domino Dancing….it’s NOTHING like that!

Another great history lesson: When We Rise which “intersects” with FT during the San Francisco storyline (it even has Cleve Jones!).

I LOVE Sophie Ellis-Bextor!!! Never understood why she was never big in the US (outside the clubs).

Just finished Fellow Travelers. Outstanding! Just curious if anyone has read the book.

Watched the first episode of Fellow Travelers. Hooked. But Matt Bomer could read the phone book and I’d be captivated.

DEFINITELY looking forward to Ripley!

Finally watched Of An Age. Originally planned on starting it last night but it was late and the first few minutes made me think it wasn’t going to be light entertainment. Watching it this afternoon I got sucked into the story and performances right away. THIS is what I’m looking for in gay...

Coming Out (2015) Interesting documentary of a filmmaker chronicling his coming out to friends and family. I wasn’t sure I was going to enjoy this. I found Alden Peters to be kind of annoying in the beginning. But it got better as the movie progressed. I’m glad that it showed the “stages” of...

Once Heartstopper completes its season I’ll have to get back on Netflix to binge it. If anyone has posted about this I may have missed it but I highly recommend All That Heaven Allowed, the Rock Hudson documentary on MAX. I was never a fan, although I loved MacMillan and Wife. The movie is full...

Caught this on MAX (I’m a sucker for true crime documentaries). It looks back at the 1990’s Last Call Killer in NYC who dismembered his victims after picking them up. I thought it did a great job on the crimes and the investigation but also tying it in with the rise of Hate crimes, Don’t...

Living in Chicago made Art and Pep a must-see. It’s a documentary on the 45+ year relationship between Art Johnston and Pepe Peña, how they started Sidetrack (a Chicago institution!) and their involvement with the gay rights movement. Definitely worth watching! Streaming on Peacock

As I said, it took SEVERAL attempts at Schitt’s and The Office to get past so many unlikeable characters but they became two of my favorite shows. I’ll give it another shot.

Is Cucumber one of those shows that you have to sit through the first few episodes to really enjoy it? That’s what The Office and Schitts Creek were like for me upon initial viewings. Henry gives off such creepy “dirty old man” vibes it’s made it hard to get through the first episode. And he’s...

I’m not sure if this has been discussed here but I HIGHLY recommend Giant Little Ones, currently streaming on Amazon Prime. Franky and Ballas are best friends, both on the high school swim team and very much the BMOC. Franky and Ballas have their lives changed after an incident after drinking...

Has anyone tried Dekkoo? It’s apparently an LGBTQ+ streaming app. I found it when I tried to track down Young Hunter. They do offer a free trial…

I hadn’t watched it before but I’m really enjoying it!

Other than The Exorcist I haven’t seen anything else by Friedkin so I don’t know if this is typical of his style or not. It’s gritty. It’s violent (in some scenes). It surprisingly doesn’t sugarcoat the leather bars/sex clubs/cruising of the time. I didn’t really care for it though. Some of the...

Just an FYI: HBO Max (in the TCM hub) is streaming Cruising with Al Pacino. I'm going to check it out tonight.

It appears some episodes are available on YouTube. Would I be correct that there is no physical or streaming service offering the entire series? Also, I saw mention of a German and Italian version on YouTube. Are these completely separate stories or just remakes of the Norwegian version?

It was on DVD, not Blu.

I highly recommend When I Knew, a great documentary on HBO Max. It's short (maybe 35 minutes) and asks dozen of people one question: "when did you know?" It's amazing how so many of us "knew" they same way (or similar to our experience). It is heartbreaking to hear the stories of those...

You liked season three more than I did. The whole series was decent but never anywhere close to the movie or the book. I wish this had been picked up by pretty much ANY studio other than Disney +/Hulu and targeted a slightly more serious, less teen soap opera tone. I think there’s a good cast...

Finally checked out Loving Highsmith, the documentary about Patricia Highsmith who wrote the great books The Talented Mr. Ripley and Strangers on a Train. Working with her diaries and archival footage it traces her life, career and dealing with being a lesbian. It definitely makes me want to...

Goodbye Seventies (2022) This is DEFINITELY a “give it a chance“ movie. I didn’t really know anything about the movie before watching it. It’s an excellent homage to both seedy low budget movies and gay porn of the 1970s. Brad, a dancer with thoughts of making it big, has an accident and decides...

And this is why I will wait to see it streaming or when the library gets it. Billy Eichner just irritates me no matter what I've seen him in. That's why I didn't go opening weekend.

The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender (1997) What a disappointment. I didn't realize this came out so close to The Celluloid Closet and they cover a lot of the same ground (both start with a clip from the early silent movie The Kiss) but the approaches and outcome are far different. For some...

Just watched Handsome Devil on Netflix (it leaves on the 31st). Really enjoyed it. It didn’t play out at all as I had expected. In a nutshell: a boys high school that’s pinning its hopes on winning rugby season on a newly transferred star player gets paired in his dorm with the bullied “queer...