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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 [...]

By WARREN DAY The keeper of the nation’s secrets, had dark secrets of his own. Two weeks ago I wrote a review about why straight critics were giving better notice to the gay movie “Weekend” than the gay critics were. Now I’m faced with a new film starring Leonardo DiCaprio as J. Edgar Hoover that [...]

By Warren Day In “Weekend,” we finally have a well-received 2011 movie where the love story at the center is between two people of the same sex. Not where it’s a sidebar, as  it was with the excellent “Beginners” that opened in July. And this British independent film is receiving even better reviews, particularly from [...]

“The Ides of March” – “Moneyball” – “50/50” By WARREN DAY Photo: Brad P itt antibiotics no prescription and Jonah Hill in “Moneyball” Three of the best films of 2011 are in theaters right now, three films that deserved to be seen by the widest audience possible, and yet they stand in danger of being [...]

Tampa Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, October 6 – October 16, 2011 Fort Lauderdale Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, October 13 – 16, 2011 By Warren Day One law rules Hollywood: the films that are most likely to get made and to appear in a multiplex near you are the films with the biggest appeal [...]

And Now the Good (and GLBT) Movies Will Come Out to Play Photo: Rooney Mara in “The Girl with  the Dragon Tattoo” By Warren Day For at least a couple of decades, the movie year has divided itself into three basic seasons. The first four months of the year – January, February, March, April – [...]

By Warren Day Contagion” may be the scariest movie you’ll ever see. Not in a vampire or werewolf kind of way, because deep down you know you’re never going to meet one of those in real life (especially one that looks like Robert Pattinson or Taylor Lautner). What makes director Steven Soderbergh’s latest film so [...]

A film review by Warren Day A positive stereotype that both heterosexuals and homosexuals hold about gays is that they’re more creative than most and without them theater would be half what it is. If that’s true, then why is it so hard to come up with a substantial list of great gay plays – [...]

By Warren Day Compared to the frat boy romps and comic book heroes that have deluged us in 2011, “Crazy, Stupid Love” seems like a mature comedy, even though it’s basically a story of adults acting in very immature ways. Heterosexuals can do that, you know. antibiotics no prescription It certainly has one of the [...]