​The Peculiar Journey of Monty Wolfe

I started the decade in a cinematic (and spiritual) crisis. My relationship of convenience was crashing to the ground like the Death Star...

While the mechanisms of cinema reach forward for advancements and innovations, where story and spectacle are concerned, there has always ...

In 1995, hot off the heels of his Oscar nominated role in What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, American film actor Leonardo DiCaprio starred in t...

Lemme just start with this - I could watch Cate Blanchett tap on a brioche bun for 6 hours and be thoroughly entertained. She is inexpli...

I think there are all kinds of directors out there, and each one brings something special to the world of cinema. Some love stories, som...

(God's Own Country, dir Francis Lee) I've been waiting impatiently for the Blu-ray release of God's Own Country - the achingly frank gay ...

Post-humanism or How Love Will Save Us All In the 1990’s, when the first stirrings of the gay marriage debate started, the argument again...

I see a sadness in city poor people that I never saw in rural poor people. There’s a desperation, a lack of community, and a loneliness -...

I’m on the Max heading to work, and my music has stopped. I was listening to a rousing bombastic final number from a Broadway show, but t...

It was an uncommonly chilly night and I was shivering. I was never one for good decision making, and walking out of the house in only a ...

On principle, I’m repulsed by routine, but I also cling to it like a big blue blanket. I find that I expend most of my energy during eac...

There have been a lot of great gays films - some were part of the New Queer Cinema movement, independent and profound like Go Fish or The...

There was a time when I had no interest in being challenged. Whether from laziness or insecurity or a general malaise, the bare minimum w...

Every now and again, while watching a movie, I’m distracted a bit by a side character dancing over in the periphery of the story. For wh...

“Of all the arts, for us the cinema is the most important.” — Vladimir Lenin What is the future of film, and does film necessarily need t...

Last night, I went GaGa for LaLaLand. I really didn't know much about it - but I had surmised that it took place in "Hollywood" - and I w...

Kevin and I finally braved the Snowpocalypse last night to go see a movie... Because I have an obsession with seeing pre-streaming films ...

Yesterday, during my daily walk with Starbuck, we had stopped for a moment so she could sniff something along the path up to Terwilliger,...

This was originally written the day Carrie Fisher passed away... I was incredibly distraught and writing and painting helped... The sassy...