Following their silly sex crime comedy Drive Away Dolls, Ethan Cohen and Tricia Cooke are reteaming for Honey Don’t!, another raunchy and light-toned comedy and the second of their lesbian B-movie trilogy that instead tries to dip its toes more into the noir and mystery of it all. Unfortunately, in this case, what worked well before with Drive Away Dolls fails
Read MoreIn Volatile Memory, Seth Haddon gives us a love story that questions everything about love. Wylla is a trans woman in a society that doesn’t accept her. She isn’t even sure she can love herself, let alone anyone else. Then she meets Sable. Sable is a lesbian in a society that doesn’t value her either. The two find each other, and
Read MoreEvil is eternal. It has existed since the beginning, and it will persist until the end. Such a formidable enemy requires an equally daunting hero to oppose it. That is where Gilad Anni-Padda comes in. For millennia, this ancient warrior has stood between humanity and the monsters that would destroy it. But now he’s forgotten himself. His past was torn away
Read MoreThe Wedding Banquet, as a remake, reintroduces a classic narrative rarely offered by Hollywood lately. The film has a catchy plot where the main leads hatch a scheme, and the more the scheme unfolds, the less it works. Romantic comedies used to do it all the time. For example, How to Lose A Guy in 10 Days permitted Kate Hudson to
Read MoreA Nice Indian Boy is a beautiful and hilarious new movie from director Roshan Sethi. The script is written by Eric Randall, based on a play of the same name by Madhuri Shekar. Sethi’s movie adaptation stars Karan Soni and Jonathan Groff as an unconventional Indian couple dealing with the family pressures of a traditional South Asian family. Lead actor Karan
Read MoreNate’s life is a mess. He’s been estranged from his family for a decade, and he just torpedoed his career as a Washington DC reporter after some unethical choices. Then he gets the call from his brother that his parents are dead, and they left him the family cabin and an old truck. Nate decides there’s nothing holding him to DC
Read MoreSally is what one would hope for from a Sundance Film Festival documentary. The festival is typically ripe with programming engaging in social commentary and highlighting diverse perspectives. And who better to highlight than the first female astronaut to adventure into space? The documentary is broad-sweeping in scope, discussing Sally Ride’s early life as a tennis player to becoming a NASA
Read MoreLucius Galloway is flying high. He has finally written a hit book, he’s won a prestigious award for it, and now he’s been offered a research position at Harvard for the summer. For anyone, this would be an amazing set of achievements, but for a gay black man in the 1920s, it feels like Lucius has won the lottery. But things
Read MoreMiles Warren is a good kid in The Hollow and the Haunted by Camilla Raines. He goes to school, gets decent grades, is nice to his little sisters, listens to his parents, he even helps out with the family business. If only the family business was a little convenience store, or a family restaurant, Miles would be so much happier. But
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