"I Wanna Dance with Somebody" strives to be a triumphant celebration of the very special person that was Whitney Houston. So many things about the film are wonderful, including a magnificent all-star cast, but ultimately it does not deliver.

With 'Living,' gay director Oliver Hermanus and screenwriter Nobel Prize-winning novelist Kazuo Ishiguro have met the challenge of creating an English version of Akira Kurosawa's "Ikiru."

2022 will be remembered as the year LGBTQ films went mainstream, meaning Hollywood studios were willing to make and market them at cineplexes. Unfortunately they were box office failures, especially "Bros," despite massive publicity and good press.

We love the holidays, so in addition to eight days of Chanukah, we have 12 days of Christmas, which means there's plenty of time left to watch some queer Christmas movies and make the Yuletide gay, right?

Brendan Fraser's Charlie in Darren Aronofsky's "The Whale" may not only be the year's best performance by a male actor, but may later be judged as one of the decade's top master classes in acting.

In Steven Spielberg's 'The Fabelmans,' as young Sammy begins developing his skills behind the camera, it's a fascinating depiction of the way a person can become consumed by becoming a craftsperson.

"Spoiler Alert," based on Michael Ausiello's 2017 memoir, concerns his 14-year love affair with his photographer partner, Kit Cowan, who died of a rare cancer in 2015. Actors Jim Parsons and Ben Aldridge discussed their roles in the film.

In "The Inspection," gay writer and director Elegance Bratton's fictionalized reminiscence of his entry into the Marines, tells of his surviving the near-death trauma known as Boot Camp.

Filmed in Austria in 1991, "Flaming Ears" is truly an underground film. Highly acclaimed for its endlessly disruptive narrative —almost to the point of rendering it incomprehensible.

On the island of O'ahu, a short walk from the historic gay bar Hula's Bar & Lei Stand and touristy gay Kuhio Beach Park, a locus of healing and pilgrimage has been re-remembered on Waikīkī Beach through a reclaimed legend of transgender healing spirits.

Cheerful kids in celebratory seasonal fashions and princess gowns only added to the pre-show sugar rush at Sunday's opening night performance of Disney's "Frozen" road show.

Based on the novel by gay writer Grant Ginder, the best way to describe the painfully unfunny movie version of "The People We Hate at the Wedding" is to say that it's one of those movies that makes you feel less horrible about your own family.

The Castro Theatre's Nov. 14 advance screening of the new gay movie "Spoiler Alert," based on the novel by Michael Ausiello, was sponsored by Frameline. Attendees also enjoyed an onstage talk with author Ausiello and actors Jim Parsons and Ben Aldridge.

Combining studio footage, along with numerous vintage visual and audio clips, "The Return of Tanya Tucker: featuring Brandi Carlile" paints a compelling portrait of Texas-born and Arizona-raised Tucker as an influential country music artist.