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Arizona’s Joe Marshall is taking New York by snowstorm this Christmas. Marshall was a fixture on Valley stages, but now he’s finding success Off Broadway after moving to New York City earlier this year. In June, he staged his play Dirty Secret s, and now, he is opening his newest show, The ...
Comedy
Garry Marshall
I love every film by director Werner Herzog I've seen, starting with 1982's Fitzcarraldo and culminating most recently in his wonderful if sad Grizzly Man . I like Nicolas Cage a lot, especially when the actor is at his most histrionic in such offbeat movies as Peggy Sue Got Married , Raising ...
Drama
Up and Monsters, Inc. , the two Pixar favorites that made their Disney Blu-ray debuts last week, share more than just a production company and a director (Peter Docter). Taking a look at their main characters, one can see several similarities: The Unlikely Hero : Is there anything more ...
Animation
Up
Pixar
In one corner, at the Pantages Theatre , is a nasty-wasty, green-furred creature intent on stealing holiday joy. In the other corner, better known as the Ahmanson Theatre , is a practically perfect if wind-dependent British nanny with magical powers. Their battle for theatre-goers’ dollars ...
Action
Mary Harron
If Old Joy mated with I Love You, Man , the spawn would be Humpday , the Sundance Festival Special Jury prize-winning film written and directed by Lynn Shelton making its debut on DVD tomorrow. The salacious, but slightly misleading, set-up is that two straight male friends decide to make an ...
Drama
Forget the hyped-up artificiality of the Saw films. The real horror show is the home life endured by the title character in Lee Daniels’ bleak but ultimately hopeful drama Precious , based on Sapphire’s 1996 novel Push . Clareece “Precious” Jones ( Gabourey Sidibe , in a true breakout ...
Sci-Fi
Mo'Nique
Push
Walt Disney’s cinematic masterpiece Mary Poppins has enthralled viewers since its original release in 1964. Based on a series of books by P.L. Travers about a “practically perfect” nanny with seemingly supernatural powers, the movie was a box-office hit and won a number of Oscars including ...
Adventure
Director-producer-writer Peter Rodger took an admirably ambitious project on when he decided to make Oh My God , a documentary opening today in Los Angeles and New York. Starting out in his native Australia, Rodger traversed 23 different countries and asked various people he encountered "What ...
Adventure
For the past few months, the MD News Desk has been bringing you all the latest scoop on what's happening in the entertainment world a couple times of week. Well, in order to bring you the news as soon as it happens (or at least as soon as we hear about it), as of today the News Desk is moving ...
Other
Mexican writer-director Fernando Eimbcke's 2004 feature film debut, Duck Season , won numerous film festival awards and made an impression on me personally. Eimbcke takes an unfortunate if not unusual route other filmmakers have traveled following a successful debut and gets self-indulgent ...
Horror
Keep up to date with all the latest from the entertainment world with the MD News Desk : Out in Film : - Ellen DeGeneres does O, the Oprah Magazine and Tom Ford does The Advocate . - Candis Cayne chats about Nip/Tuck and her upcoming reality show. - Will & Grace co-creator Max ...
Other
Faizon Love
Each holiday season brings a host of theatrical and DVD releases intended to contribute to movie fans’ yuletide cheer and/or inspire gift giving. Few of them, however, include GLBT characters or speak directly to GLBT viewers. There are exceptions though, chief among them The Family Stone, ...
Drama
Since his creation in 1919 by American pulp fiction author Johnston McCulley, the masked avenger known as Zorro has lived on in everything from comic books to cartoons to video games, even a stage musical. But it is his onscreen persona that has been the most enduring, including multiple ...
Other
Back in 1984 or so, in the heady days of Phoenix gay hot spot Hotbods, you could count on seeing a young guy decked out like Boy George , with an LP on his head for a hat and plenty of rag-cloth dreadlocks. Everyone called him “Trashdance”, and I don’t think anyone ever knew his real name. I ...
Comedy
Keep up to date with all the latest from the entertainment world with the MD News Desk : Kish : - This week saw the "Big Gay Wedding" storyline come to a head on One Life to Live , culminating in climactic kiss between Scott Evans' Oliver Fish and Brett Claywell's Kyle Lewis. Watch it all ...
Drama
Faizon Love
Comedienne Kathy Griffin has moved from the infamous “D-List” of celebrity culture to at least the “B-List” over the last few years, due in no small part to the rabid devotion of her beloved “gays”. The winner of two Emmy Awards for her Bravo reality series Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List ...
Other
Faizon Love
It’s a good thing that Audrey Tatou is so fabulous in Coco Before Chanel . In fact, everything about director Anne Fontaine’s gorgeous biography of famous fashion icon Coco Chanel is wonderful ... except the script, which is kind of a major flaw. If you’re going to build a story around “who ...
Other
The last piece of candy may be gone, but the Halloween-appropriate Gravestoned (from Painted Pictures) is hoping to cash in on DVD beginning today. Shot in and around a real, spooky cemetery in Texas, this independently produced horror-comedy has a little something for everyone: college ...
Horror
When Gerard Butler and Jamie Foxx read the script for Law Abiding Citizen , it probably seemed a lot better than it plays on screen. A grieving man (Butler) survives a brutal attack and watches his wife and daughter get butchered, only to watch helplessly as the district attorney (Foxx) lets ...
Drama
Gerard Butler
Jamie Foxx
Law Abiding Citizen
Keep up to date with all the latest from the entertainment world with the MD News Desk : Cinematic Crushes : - Jake Gyllenhaal to visit Sesame Street . (Other celebs stopping by this season include Christina Applegate, Matthew Fox, Hugh Jackman, Eva Longoria-Parker, Paul Rudd and Jake's sis ...
