By Gary M. Kramer— This year’s Mill Valley Film Festival, October 1–11, will offer dozens of queer films, providing viewers an opportunity to see many of this year’s Oscar hopefuls…
By Donna Sachet— What a career! The name Bea Arthur is certainly familiar to our readers, perhaps as television characters Maude or Dorothy Zbornak, but we doubt that you know…
By Jan Wahl— It’s really easy to travel through the movies. If it has been a summer at home, we can always turn to film for a trip to somewhere…
Dolly Parton on September 24, 2016, performed what would become her last concert in the Bay Area. The show, at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California, was part of her…
By Jan Wahl— Remarkable Dolly Since the passing of our wonderful Dolly Parton, I have seen a great many clips and interviews with this wonderful woman. Well-produced, entertaining documentaries have…
By Gary M. Kramer— Barbara Forever is a warm, elegiac, and celebratory documentary about the groundbreaking lesbian avant-garde filmmaker Barbara Hammer, who passed away in 2019. Hammer documented herself and…
By Gary M. Kramer— Out gay actor Charlie Barnett has a supporting role in Dreams in Nightmares,an engrossing drama opening September 4, 2026, about a group of queer friends, Z…
By Jan Wahl— At last, all of your questions about what the credits at the end of a movie refer to are answered. The answers are in a great book:…
By Gary M. Kramer— The new film of trans and non-binary writer/director Jane Schoenbrun, Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, is an astonishing homage to slasher films yet it…
By Jan Wahl— Some of the best advice I ever received includes the words “stay curious.” No matter the age or circumstances, feeding the brain is important and fun. For…
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