GRAB A KLEENEX These flicks will have you reaching for the
Kleenex box, or a hanky if that’s your prefer- ence, because you are going to have yourself a good old-fashioned boo-hoo. Supernova, currently airing on Hulu, features
Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci as partners of 20 years grappling with the onset of dementia for one of them, and how it will affect them both in the long run. Often referred to as “the gay cowboy movie”
labels Brokeback Mountain as one-dimen- sional in its depiction of Ennis Del Mar (Heath Ledger) and Jack Twist’s (Jake Gyllenhaal)
clandestine love affair; it’s a glimpse into what it means to not embrace who you are. Phew, I got through without writing the movie’s most quoted line, “I wish I knew how to quit you.” Dammit! Boys Don’t Cry won Hilary Swank a Best
Actress Oscar for her portrayal of trans teen Brandon Teena in rural Nebraska in this heartbreaking film. Tom Hanks scored his first Best Oscar trophy as Andrew Beckett, a gay man fired from a law firm for having HIV/AIDS in Philadelphia. It was one of the first main- stream Hollywood movies to deal with the
subject matter, while Longtime Companion chronicled the beginnings of the epidemic and its effect on a group of friends in New York City. Moonlight won the Oscar for Best Picture in 2016, even if presenters Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty botched that announcement. Anyhoo, the life of Chiron (Trevante Rhodes) is broken down into three acts depicting his childhood, adolescence and early adulthood, fo- cusing on the difficulties he has endured during each of these timeframes. Moonlight snagged a Best Supporting Actor for Mahershala Aliand one for Best Adapted Screenplay as well.
LOOKIN’ FOR LOVE The all-too-relatable search for “the one”
comes in many forms on the big screen. Sometimes love is right in front of us, on the horizon, in the past or the hope for a brighter future. Gravelly voiced actor Harvey Fierstein
adapted his play Torch Song Trilogy for the big screen and starred as Arnold, a female impersonator who just wanted to be loved — is that so wrong? He crosses paths with Alan (Matthew Broderick), and they eventually move in together; alas, tragedy strikes, leaving Arnold to pick up the pieces and confront his overbearing mother (Anne Bancroft). Director Ang Lee, who nabbed a Best Director
Academy Award for Brokeback Mountain, previously helmed The Wedding Banquet, which tells the story of Wai-Tung (Winston Chao) who is hiding his same-sex relationship from his Taiwanese parents. Steven Weber stars as Jeffrey, a single gay man who meets Steve (Michael T. Weiss) who is HIV+, leaving Jeffrey unsure about dating him. Hey, it was the 1990s. Luckily, he has a support- ing cast of characters to turn to, like Sir Patrick Stewart, Bryan Batt and Sigourney Weaver in a hilarious turn as “The World’s Hottest Postmod-
ern Evangelist.” Again, it was the ’90s, which was the decade that Trick was released. The story chronicles Gabriel (Christian Campbell) and the drought he’s experiencing in the romance department, until he meets go-go boy Mark (John Paul Pitoc). There have been reports that a sequel is in the works. Hopefully Coco Peru will be on hand to dispense advise in the men’s room. Because it still burns after all these years! Pedro Almodóvar’s Bad Education runs the gamut of light and dark sides of life in detailing the story of filmmaker Enrique Goded (Fele Martínez), who’s searching for the plot of his next film. Fortuitously, his school friend and first love Ignacio (Gael García Bernal) shows up with a screenplay based on their abuse by a priest at school. I think they might be entitled to a settlement. At least that’s what the ad that cropping up on my Facebook feed says. The older man/younger man dynamic is
explored in Call Me by Your Name, in which Italy serves as the backdrop for the relationship between Elio (Timothée Chalamet) and Oliver (Armie Hammer). Unfortunately, due to the scandal surrounding, um, Hammer’s sexual proclivities, the proposed sequel is officially
dead. Great! Now we’ll never know what fruit will be violated for the follow-up! Thanks, Armie! Speaking of produce, Tangerine is an unconventional love story about two trans women who embark on a revenge mission, searching for the pimp that broke the heart of one of the ladies. Who hasn’t been there? Two British-based tales, My Beautiful Laun-
drette and Beautiful Thing, offer decidedly different takes of love in London. My Beautiful Laundrette’s former lovers Omar (Gordon Warnecke) and Johnny (Daniel Day-Lewis) are brought back together by unusual circum- stances when Omar is attacked by a gang of racist punks, of which Johnny is the leader. Faster than you can say star-crossed, the duo reignites their relationship, against the odds. Beautiful Thing treads more traditional coming- of-age waters. The relationship between Jamie (Glen Berry) and athletic Ste (Scott Neal) sees the teens embracing their homosexuality and feelings towards each other. Aww, you go boys! Love, Simon also falls into the category of
young love, in which high school student Simon Spier tries to figure out the identity of a classmate that he has been chatting with online.
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