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You can help support the Bay Area Reporter fundraising campaign

You can help support the Bay Area Reporter fundraising campaign

  • by Michael Yamashita
  • Apr 15, 2020

San Francisco is one of 11 US cities that is fortunate to have a legacy LGBT publication by us, for us, and about us. Help preserve the BAR as an historic and important community institution for the future.

Mayhem and Madness: The Lavender Tube on Tiger King, Dispatches, and more

Mayhem and Madness: The Lavender Tube on Tiger King, Dispatches, and more

  • by Victoria A. Brownworth
  • Apr 7, 2020

Netflix's 'Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness,' is the hottest show in America right now. But many other hit shows with LGBT characters (minus the murder, mayhem and well, a bit of madness) are either free online or available on subscription.

Epidemic cinematic: classic AIDS stories still ring true

Epidemic cinematic: classic AIDS stories still ring true

  • by David Lamble
  • Apr 7, 2020

This isn't our first pandemic. Herein we review the cream of the pandemic film crop, many of which can be found on various cable channels or streaming services.

Urban ensemble amours: 'Almost Love'

Urban ensemble amours: 'Almost Love'

  • by Gregg Shapiro
  • Apr 7, 2020

When gay actor turned writer/director Mike Doyle's feature-length debut played the festival circuit it went by the terrible title 'Sell By.' Opening this spring, the movie is now called 'Almost Love' is so much better than either of its names.

Fox and Fiends: 'Bombshell' recounts the fake news network's foibles

Fox and Fiends: 'Bombshell' recounts the fake news network's foibles

  • by Brian Bromberger
  • Mar 25, 2020

'Bombshell," (just released on DVD) details the fall of Roger Ailes, the head of conservative cable Fox News, due to a sexual harassment lawsuit instigated by several star journalists working at the network.

Straddling the Kinsey Scale

Straddling the Kinsey Scale

  • by David Lamble
  • Mar 17, 2020

The new relationship comedy "Straight Up" pokes fun at an old situation: an effeminate gay man attempts to date women.

Photographer captures life, is captured

Photographer captures life, is captured

  • by Roberto Friedman
  • Mar 10, 2020

Last week Out There went to see filmmaker Mark Bosek's new documentary "The Times of Bill Cunningham," about the late New York Times street photographer of the same name.

Holmes after hours

Holmes after hours

  • by David Lamble
  • Mar 10, 2020

In this neglected minor classic, immortal director Billy Wilder asks, "Was Sherlock Holmes gay?"

Peaches Christ & Co. stage classic film

Peaches Christ & Co. stage classic film

  • by David-Elijah Nahmod
  • Mar 10, 2020

"Drag Becomes Her," a mad satire of the Meryl Streep/Goldie Hawn supernatural comedy "Death Becomes Her," promises to leave audiences in stitches.

Sympathy for the art thief

Sympathy for the art thief

  • by David Lamble
  • Mar 10, 2020

If fiendishly concocted escapism is what you hanker for right now, consider "The Burnt Orange Heresy," a highly entertaining new Italian melodrama opening Friday.

Vintage Coppola

Vintage Coppola

  • by Sura Wood
  • Mar 3, 2020

BAMPFA looks back at a studio's legacy with "Francis Ford Coppola and 50 Years of American Zoetrope," a two-part series that assembles films from 1963-2019 directed or supported by Coppola and the company he built.

Capitalist hijinks in 'Greed'

Capitalist hijinks in 'Greed'

  • by David Lamble
  • Mar 3, 2020

"Greed" (opening Friday), from British director Michael Winterbottom and comic actor Steve Coogan, has Coogan playing an arrogant, knighted textile importer.

Online Extra: Castro Theatre mixes classic & contemporary

Online Extra: Castro Theatre mixes classic & contemporary

  • by David Lamble
  • Mar 3, 2020

After the fireworks of the political season, the Castro Theatre offers a refreshing change of pace: a mix of contemporary and classic cinema, including tributes to Judy Garland and Kirk Douglas, who just left us at the exalted age of 103.

Five-man band in a beautiful tragedy

Five-man band in a beautiful tragedy

  • by David Lamble
  • Feb 25, 2020

In the opening frames of the fabulous rock-history memory piece "Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band," the one-time pretty boy and still quite handsome bandleader Robbie Robertson ruefully reflects on a human tragedy.