When you’re talking about some of the most romantic movie sequences of all time, everyone has things that instantly come to mind. All you have to say to a fan of recent Bollywood movies is “the gazebo scene,” and they automatically know what you’re talking about: 1998’s Kuch Kuch Hota Hai; Rahul and Anjali share a dance… Read More Setting the scene for romance
I love movies that get all meta about the film industry, be it The Player or Soapdish or Om Shanti Om. Rajkumar Santoshi’s Halla Bol (Raise Your Voice) is one such film, telling the story of superstar Sameer Khan (Ajay Devgan), who must confront the soul-less Bollywood machine he’s become when he witnesses the murder of… Read More Halla Bol: Pros and Khans
Woody Allen, Pedro Almodovar, Wes Anderson, Darren Aronofsky, Alfonso Cuaron, Jonathan Demme, Terry Gilliam, Taylor Hackford, Isabelle Huppert, Neil Jordan, Wong Kar Waï, Milan Kundera, David Lynch, Sam Mendes, Mike Nichols, Salman Rushdie, Martin Scorsese, Steven Soderbergh, Tilda Swinton. These are just some of the big names from film and literature who have thrown their support behind… Read More Can I just boycott and blacklist LIFE?
Writer/director Tom Gustafson’s 2008 indie flick Were The World Mine is a fantastical, musical coming of age tale that’s not so much a re-telling of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream as it is an homage. A very gay homage. (Though, seriously, if you’ve seen the 1999 film version with Rupert Everett, Michelle Pfeiffer and Christian Bale,… Read More Round about the earth in 95 minutes
Yash Chopra’s 1991 film Lamhe is the very definition of an unconventional love story. Starring Anil Kapoor (whom people now know as “the host from Slumdog Millionaire“) and Sridevi in a double role, it’s long been one of my favorite films. It makes me laugh, it makes me sing at the top of my lungs,… Read More Taking a moment to talk Lamhe
One Life to Live‘s Fish stepped out of the closet today, finally admitting to Cristian, Layla and himself what he’s been so afraid to acknowledge aloud: He’s gay. And, okay, from a ‘shipper perspective, I also had to squee because he acknowledged Kyle’s importance to him as well… Oliver: I went to college, and it… Read More Oliver’s coming out party: a recs post
I just finished watching the Oscar-winning biopic Milk (yeah, yeah, I’m behind; I know), and my arms are still covered in goosebumps, my throat still choked with tears. It’s a powerful film –melodramatic at times– and what makes it the most powerful is how easily it could be taking place now. Blink and it’s like… Read More The Milk of human unkindness
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