Moonlight: Three Shades of Blue

Alex Hibbert and Mahershala Ali. Photo: A24 I love the poster for this film. The colors are deep shades of blue, purple and cyan and the three faces of the…

Looking 

One of the most explicit TV series ever made about gay men followed a group of friends in San Francisco, with focus on the 29-year-old game designer Patrick (Jonathan Groff)…

True Blood 

Alan Ball followed up Six Feet Under (2001-2005) with something completely different, even if death was a prominent theme on this show as well. The story began after the creation…

Far from Heaven 

Rainer Werner Fassbinder wasn’t the only one in awe of Douglas Sirk. In this drama, Todd Haynes recreated everything from Sirk's films to perfection. One in particular in fact, All…

American Beauty: Beyond Italian Upholstery

Mena Suvari. Photo: DreamWorks The story of how American Beauty, one of the most celebrated films of the 1990s, was made is the story of how a struggling TV writer…

Girl with Hyacinths: Secrets and Lies

Eva Henning and Anders Ek. Photo: Terrafilm In this time and age, it’s pretty much impossible to write a review of Hasse Ekman’s most accomplished film without talking about the…

Six Feet Under: Death Is the Beginning

Freddy Rodríguez, Mathew St. Patrick, Michael C. Hall, Lauren Ambrose, Frances Conroy, Peter Krause, Richard Jenkins, Rachel Griffiths and Jeremy Sisto. Photo: HBO In the beginning of the series finale,…

Will & Grace: A Lovably Gay Agenda

Debra Messing, Eric McCormack, Sean Hayes and Megan Mullally. Photo: NBC A part of me wants to talk only about this show as just another one of those fine sitcoms…

Diamonds Are Forever

James Bond (Sean Connery) goes undercover as a diamond smuggler to locate a large amount of stolen gems; it turns out that Blofeld (Charles Gray) is once again responsible. The…