The Times of Harvey Milk
(Criterion Collection) The 1984 documentary about San Francisco’s first openly gay supervisor, Harvey Milk, is receiving the Blu-ray treatment. The film, narrated by Harvey
Fierstein, documents Milk’s rise from local Castro-based camera shop owner to gay rights activist.
WATCH THIS: This journey includes
his part in overturning California’s Proposition 6 (AKA The Briggs Initia- tive), the law that would have led to the firing of gay and lesbian teachers and their supporters. The Academy Award-winning documentary also in- cludes footage of Dan White, who shot Milk and San Francisco Mayor George Moscone in 1978. The Times of Harvey Milk provides more of the trial facts than the 2008 biopic Milk did about White’s resulting trial and disappoint- ing outcome. The restored version of this fascinating, yet
tragic look at “The Mayor of Castro Street,” features interviews with Milk’s friend, Cleve Jones, as well as actor James Franco, who played his long-time lover Scott Smith in Milk. Available March 22.
How Do You Know Director James L. Brooks (Terms of Endearment) has assembled an all-star cast of Reese Witherspoon, Paul Rudd, Owen Wilson and Jack
Nicholson, and ponders the cin- ematic question of How Do You Know (although the title of the movie doesn’t
treat it as a query.) The romantic comedy focuses on Lisa (Witherspoon), a woman whose life ac-
complishments are interconnected to her sports aptitude. So, when she is let go from her softball team, Lisa fumbles into a rela- tionship with a self-centered major league baseball player (Wilson). However, she also meets straight-laced businessman George (Rudd), who has a complicated relationship with his father Charles (Nicholson), around the same time. How will she know which one to pick?
Available March 15 .
Mystery Science Theater 3000: Volume XX Been worried about how to drop those few ex-
tra post-Holiday inches from around your waist? Well, you are in luck, as there is a new MST3K box- set to tighten up your abs from laughter. The latest installment of the beloved show,
The End: Five Queer Kids Save The World
Nora Olsen For her debut novel, author Nora Olsen has assembled a tale of time traveling LGBT teens, on a quest to save the world from nuclear war.
After WWIII happens, Julia, a 17-year-old on a school trip in Amsterdam and 14-year-old Marly, whose current residence is a school for delinquent girls, discover magical amulets. As the world around them is on the brink
of collapse, the girls separately attempt to save themselves and those they care about, while the omnipresent specter of nuclear war looms large on the encroaching dark new horizon, all but thwarting their efforts to change their fates. Along the way, Julia is joined by three other queer youths, including
a 5,000-year-old named Skilly who has a talisman that grants him eternal life. When Marly finally joins the group, it’s a case of love-at-first-sight for her and Julia. But with the threat of human annihilation, their focus becomes how to use their new-found amulets to save the world. Available Now.
features original host Joel Hodgson and his hilarious Satellite of Love crew as they make the worst movies ever made watchable. This series includes: Project Moonbase, The Magic Voyage of Sinbad and as a double bonus of badness, there’s Master Ninja I and Master Ninja II – that’s four hours (give or take) of the incomparable acting abilities of one Timothy Van Patten. There’s even an ap- pearance by a young Demi Moore in the first “film,” which was culled from a 1984 TV series The Master. Available March 8.
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