The Third Fabulous Independent Film Festival returns to Sarasota
Sarasota – Florida’s Cultural Coast is preparing for the third annual Fabulous Independent Film Festival to open its doors and show some of the best independent LGBT films from around the country....
View ArticleAlly Agenda: An imagineered indoctrination
Was the Tampa Tribune’s entire editorial board locked in a sweat lodge trying to identify their spirit animals when Douglas MacKinnon’s column on Disney’s “pro-gay agenda” crossed their desks? That is...
View ArticleBurns Court once again hosts the Fabulous Independent Film Festival Aug. 22-24
Sarasota – Sarasota’s 4th annual Sarasota Fabulous Independent Film Festival kicks off later this month The festival, which runs Friday through Sunday, Aug. 22-24, sports an impressive collection of...
View ArticleScreened Out – Calvary
Calvary is ponderous, to be sure. It’s also lovely, bleak, troubling, witty, thought provoking, and finally, thoroughly Irish. This is the plum role that fans of Brendan Gleeson (Braveheart, In Bruges,...
View ArticleJohn Waters, Del Shores and parties are just part of TIGLFF’s 25th...
Tampa – Margaret Murray remembers the early years of the Tampa International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. It was long before the film fan became the organization’s executive director—for the second...
View ArticleThe Birdcage, Angels in America director dies at 83
New York (AP) — Mike Nichols, the director of matchless versatility who brought fierce wit, caustic social commentary and wicked absurdity to such film, TV and stage hits as “The Graduate,” ”Angels in...
View ArticleScreened Out – Big Eyes
No wonder Burton was attracted to this; it’s a fascinating story. We’ve all seen the paintings, those creepy, sad waifs with the oversized pupils. The “big eyes” prints – like their counterparts from...
View ArticleTwo weddings will benefit Sarasota Film Festival
Sarasota – Just in time for Valentine’s Day, locals can show support for both independent film and recent marriage equality wins by attending “The Perfect Wedding.” The themed fundraiser is a...
View ArticleScreened Out – Jurassic World
RAAWRR! Many of us remember how visually stunning – and how LOUD – the first Jurassic film was. The next two films devolved into lesser, dumber animals, and now Jurassic World hopes to breathe new life...
View ArticleScreened Out – Dope
Yo! Yo! Yo! Get ready to get hooked on Dope! “Dope” has a few definitions – drugs, stupid people, and excellence. The comedy Dope has all three things. So, strap on your Air Jordans and chill, for this...
View ArticleScreened Out – Shaun the Sheep
Aardman Studios – the brilliant clay animation artists behind the veddy British animated comedies Chicken Run and Wallace and Gromit – are back! For a while there, they were speeding up, cleaning up,...
View ArticleSpace Coast Pride chooses grand marshals
The 9th annual Space Coast Pride will have grand marshals representing the L, the G and the T, but not the B. “We were unable to locate a bisexual grand marshal,” Lexi Wright, president of Space Coast...
View Article“Milk” screenwriter directs you to a Coke
Dustin Lance Black (pictured), the Oscar-winning screenwriter of Milk, has teamed up with Coca-Cola to create a series of short films about anti-bullying. The campaign starts with the film, available...
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, Project X and Pain &...
View ArticleSpooky 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...
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