Reel Thoughts: There's an App for That

A big hit from the Desperado Film Festival, the funny romantic comedy eCupid (now on DVD from TLA Releasing) is about a gay couple in the d...

Reverend's Interview: A Performer Who's No Idiot

Green Day's 2004, Grammy-winning album American Idiot provided something of a narrative in its rockin' critique of the Bush-era, po...

Reel Thoughts: Nuclear Waste

Oren Peli is the go-to guy for "found footage" horror films, so it isn’t surprising to see his name as screenwriter of Chernobyl D...

Reel Thoughts: Black Dramady

When he isn’t playing obnoxious jerks, Jack Black can really handle more dramatic, complex roles. He gives his richest performance to date ...

Reel Thoughts: Coming to America

As big a fame whore as Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Sasha Baron Cohen’s General Aladeen (rhymes with Paula Deen) of the fictional North Afri...

Reverend's Reviews: Noisemakers

As the predominantly mindless and noisy summer movie season gets into full swing with this weekend's release of the board game-inspired,...

Reel Thoughts Interview: From a Different Angle

Broadway has proven much more welcoming to GLBT actors than Hollywood, and one example is Christopher Sieber . The tall, handsome actor has ...

Reel Thoughts: Maimed in the USA

I never considered myself a Bobcat Goldthwait fan, but then he started making wild black comedies like Sleeping Dogs Lie and his new satire...

Reel Thoughts: Return to Collinwood

Fans of the original Dark Shadows can breathe an undead sigh of relief. Despite trailers that show all but the raunchiest comic bits from t...

Reverend's Reviews: Haunted Heartache

Upon entering the Ahmanson Theatre this past week, regulars like myself were initially startled to find the space in a state of apparent ...

Reel Thoughts Preview: Camp Vamp

Television fans of Dark Shadows have been in a snit ever since the very campy trailer of Tim Burton’s Dark Shadows came out. But even die...

Reel Thoughts: Whit's End

If you like those “Bein’ Quirky With Zooey Deschanel” skits on Saturday Night Live , you’ll love Whit Stillman’s new film Damsels in Distres...

Reverend's Reviews: Love & Denial

As Saturday Night Live 's self-help guru Stuart Smalley (played by now-Senator Al Franken) regularly declared back in the 1990's, ...

Reel Thoughts: Young Love & Death

Fresh from a series of awards across the festival circuit comes Jitters , an Icelandic coming-of-age film about first love now available on ...

Reverend's Preview: Sunny Days & Dark Shadows

Ah, summer, beloved season of Pride, fruity cocktails and minimal swimsuits.  It is also the time of year when Hollywood releases its bigg...