Spooky Empire brings out scares and stars for thirteenth year of Ultimate...
It’s that time of year again when the Cineplexes will be filled with scary movies, the Burger King’s will be overrun by black bun Whoppers and, for Central Florida, Spooky Empire will roll in with a...
View ArticleOscar Predictions and Watermark’s 2016 Oscars Pool!
It’s our annual Oscar column – and it’s a doozy! In the comments, you can submit you predictions. We’ll draw a prizewinner from the correct or most correct. You will win SOMETHING! The 88th Oscar...
View ArticleSarasota Film Festival celebrates the LGBT community
SARASOTA – Come out and support the 2016 Sarasota Film Festival as it features seven LGBT feature films, five short films and the free panel “Making LGBTQ Films.” Sarasota Film Festival is partnering...
View ArticleWatermark’s March Madness 2016 Ultimate LGBT Icon: And the winner is…
After a knockdown, drag out fight between 32 of the biggest, most well-known LGBT icons in America, you – the reader – have finally selected a winner. After voting through the best in four categories –...
View ArticleNumber of LGBT characters in films stays steady, racial diversity drops
Los Angeles (AP) – Hollywood films remained static in their inclusiveness of LGBT characters in 2015, but the racial diversity of those characters fell dramatically, according to the findings of...
View ArticleScreened Out – The Secret Life of Pets
Pet lovers are often animation lovers, too, I know, looking to our animals for wildly, colorful entertainment – like living cartoons. We search online for videos of puppies who act like goofballs or...
View ArticleScreened Out – Ice Age Collision Course
It feels as if the makers of Ice Age listened to the early criticism of the franchise: “None of this is realistic!” and “This is scientifically implausible!” Then they decided that talking animals,...
View ArticleGLAAD film report spotlights zero trans representation in major studio films
There were no transgender characters in the 110 major studio films released in 2018, according to a film report from GLAAD. GLAAD’s annual Studio Responsibility Index observed that when it comes to...
View ArticleMatthew McGee, Nick Smith revisit classic Halloween films
Do you remember the first time you watched your favorite Halloween movie? Maybe your first paranormal cinema experience was 1984’s “Ghostbusters.” Perhaps you feel better connected to the campy...
View ArticleGLAAD: Hollywood needs to do better
GLAAD has a new online campaign to battle what it says is Hollywood’s “lack of relevant representation of LGBT people in film.” The organization criticized such films as Ted 2, […] The post GLAAD:...
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