Florida Agenda

By WARREN DAY Even in places that are LGBT friendly, such as South Florida, you wouldn’t get the chance to see many of the gay films if it weren’t for special festivals, such as the Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival (MGLFF) running from April 27 through May 6 in South Beach. From production to [...]

By WARREN DAY After a winter of disappointing films, “Bully” is a powerful reminder of a time when motion pictures sought to not only entertain, but to move people to action by showing injustice in a way that touched both our hearts and heads. And while most films fade from memory in a day or [...]

By WARREN DAY If you’ve ever wondered just how bad a big studio movie can be, then “The Wrath of the Titans” provides an excruciating answer: cringe-inducing dialogue, blurry and unimaginative special effects, actions sequences without wit or originality, characters you know little about and about whom you care even less, costumes from Wal-Mart, and [...]

By WARREN DAY As far as the major studios are concerned, there are three seasons in which they release films, and once you understand that you’ll know why theaters are currently showing such dreck as “This Means War,” “Journey 2,” “Project X,” and “A Thousand Words.” None of these was able to muster even 50 [...]

By WARREN DAY It’s been called “the Super Bowl for the LGBT community,” celebrated along with Gay Pride and Halloween as a major touchstone of the gay calendar. The Academy Awards usually pulls in the biggest TV audience of the year for any non-related Super Bowl program, and yet there are signs that the Oscars [...]

Daniel Radcliffe of “Harry Potter” fame has a few things to say about what he says is mean-spiritedness demonstrated by the GOP candidates for president towards LGBT persons. In an interview with Attitude magazine, the star of the new horror-chiller “The Woman in Black” said that religion has its place in the church house, not [...]

By WARREN DAY Just-released, “The Woman in Black” starring Daniel Radcliffe (none other than Harry Potter himself) is a throwback to an older form, a classic Victorian ghost story in the grand tradition, something that’s been missing from the screen for a long time. The Haunted House in cinema dates back at least to “The [...]

By Warren Day You might think 2005 was the best gay year in movies based purely on the release of “Brokeback Mountain.” But in terms of sheer quantity, 2011 has all other years beat, and the quality was damn good too. I’m not talking about the small, independent films that you usually see only in [...]

By Warren Day What character, fictional or real, has appeared in more movies, either in a small or big role, than any other figure?   What would be your guess?   If you were to say Jesus, you would be wrong.  Also if you suggested Robin Hood, Abe Lincoln, Cleopatra, James Bond, or Queen Elizabeth I you’d [...]

By WARREN DAY “The Descendants” with George Clooney has the mixed-blessing of being an Oscar front-runner for Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, and will probably get nominations in other categories, such as Best Supporting Actress. Why is such a thing a mixed-blessing? It’s a rather common hiccup in the award season [...]