Film
WATCH: PBS’s The Amish: Shunned
Tonight, PBS’s American Experience is airing a documentary called The Amish: Shunned. It tells the story about those who leave the Amish community only to be “shunned” or […]
12 Rep Films Showing This Week: The Breakfast Club, Harold and Maude, Newlyweds and More.
Every week we round up the repertory films playing this week in Philadelphia. Click film names for trailer when available.
2014 Gay Movie Preview: What’s Playing at Sundance
The 2014 Sundance Film Festival kicks off today in — funny enough — Utah with a generous itinerary of LGBT flicks. And while most of […]
Prediction: It’s a Wonderful Life Sequel Will Be Worst Sequel Ever Made
Say it ain’t so. According to Variety, some bright bulbs have decided to make a sequel to the 1946 Christmas classic, It’s a Wonderful Life. […]
5 New Gay Movies on Netflix
November is here, which means it’s not only the first full month of fall, but the official start of “snuggle up and watch a movie” […]
Ender’s Game — Top Gun with Tweens?
As much as Gavin Hood’s long-awaited adaptation of Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card’s most popular novel, purports to peel into issues of intergalactic peace and […]
Sighting: Richard Gere on Broad Street
Richard Gere films a scene from Franny this afternoon on Broad Street in front of the Bellevue Hyatt. Those cars are real people (not extras) just […]
10 Must-See Films at the Philadelphia Film Festival
I know I wasn’t the only cinephile disappointed that the Philadelphia Film Festival didn’t make IndieWire’s inaugural list of the 50 leading film festivals back […]
Did Frank Rizzo Try to Prevent the MOVE Bombing?
I just finished screening Let the Fire Burn, a fascinating new documentary about the MOVE bombing in Philadelphia. And whether you think you know everything […]
Gravity: The Least Enjoyable Film You’ll Need to See Again
What’s your greatest fear? Being buried alive? Fire? Perhaps spiders? Well after seeing Gravity you might develop a new one: astrophobia. The fear of outer space. After […]
Screening of Susan Seidelman’s Musical Chairs
The Gerald and Janet Carrus Foundation recently hosted a screening of director Susan Seidelman‘s Musical Chairs, a delightful movie about love and wheelchair ballroom dancing (watch […]
Brad Pitt Movie Set in Philly But Filmed in Glasgow Opens This Weekend
Due to the state of Pennsylvania’s occasional, shall we say, recalcitrance regarding the city of Philadelphia, there were budgetary issues that prevented World War Z […]
Watch: Any Day Now
Set in the 1970s, Any Day Now is the story of a drag queen who sets out to adopt a child who’s been neglected in […]
What I’ve Learned From Janeane Garofalo
Coming of age in the early 90s, despite the pimples, high school dramas and usual teenage pitfalls, was that much easier thanks to celebs like Janeane […]
Watch: Chris Colfer in Struck By Lightening
Glee’s Chris Colfer has written and stars in a new film Struck By Lightening.