A recent survey found that one in five of Americans heavily rely on streaming services to help them cope with the trials and tribulations posed by the coronavirus pandemic. Netflix should be well aware of this fact, too, as their subscriber base has grown tremendously while other businesses – particularly those in the entertainment industry – are currently languishing.
Of course, periods of growth often precede times of rapid decline, and Netflix’s success has not been without its own complications. As more and more regions in the United States are reinstating quarantine, people consume content at faster rates than ever before. And in order to keep their subscribers satisfied, Netflix has tried their best to provide new material.
Today, for instance, August 27th, the streamer has added a total of 5 new movies and 1 new TV show, and the complete list is as follows:
5 New Movies
Edge of Seventeen (1998) Night Comes On...
Of course, periods of growth often precede times of rapid decline, and Netflix’s success has not been without its own complications. As more and more regions in the United States are reinstating quarantine, people consume content at faster rates than ever before. And in order to keep their subscribers satisfied, Netflix has tried their best to provide new material.
Today, for instance, August 27th, the streamer has added a total of 5 new movies and 1 new TV show, and the complete list is as follows:
5 New Movies
Edge of Seventeen (1998) Night Comes On...
- 8/27/2020
- by Tim Brinkhof
- We Got This Covered
Brace yourselves. This list of the Top 100 Greatest Gay Movies is probably going to generate some howls of protest thanks to a rather major upset in the rankings. Frankly, one that surprised the hell out of us here at AfterElton.
But before we get to that, an introduction. A few weeks ago we asked AfterElton readers to submit up to ten of their favorite films by write-in vote. We conducted a similar poll several years ago, but a lot has happened culturally since then, and a number of worthy movies of gay interest have been released. We wanted to see how your list of favorites had changed.
We also wanted to expand our list to 100 from the top 50 we had done previously. We figured there were finally enough quality gay films to justify the expansion. And we wanted to break out gay documentaries onto their own list (You'll find the...
But before we get to that, an introduction. A few weeks ago we asked AfterElton readers to submit up to ten of their favorite films by write-in vote. We conducted a similar poll several years ago, but a lot has happened culturally since then, and a number of worthy movies of gay interest have been released. We wanted to see how your list of favorites had changed.
We also wanted to expand our list to 100 from the top 50 we had done previously. We figured there were finally enough quality gay films to justify the expansion. And we wanted to break out gay documentaries onto their own list (You'll find the...
- 9/11/2012
- by AfterElton.com Staff
- The Backlot
We’ve received all the covers for DC Comics July solicitations, including the long awaited Games, the New Teen Titans graphic novel from Marv Wolfman and George Pérez. And when I say long awaited, I mean two decades long– which kinda ties in with all the DC Retroactive titles coming out, including our favorite, Green Lantern reuniting the team of ComicMix contributors Dennis O’Neil and Mike Grell.
Take a look.
War Of The Green Lanterns: Aftermath #1
Written by Tony Bedard
Art by Miguel Sepulveda
Cover by Dave Johnson
1:10 Variant cover by Doug Mahnke
The shocking consequences of the blockbuster “War of the Green Lantern” event have shattered the lives of Hal Jordan, Guy Gardner, John Stewart and Kyle Rayner in ways no one will see coming.
Everything you thought you knew about the Corps is no more!
Retailers: This issue will ship with two covers. Please see the...
Take a look.
War Of The Green Lanterns: Aftermath #1
Written by Tony Bedard
Art by Miguel Sepulveda
Cover by Dave Johnson
1:10 Variant cover by Doug Mahnke
The shocking consequences of the blockbuster “War of the Green Lantern” event have shattered the lives of Hal Jordan, Guy Gardner, John Stewart and Kyle Rayner in ways no one will see coming.
Everything you thought you knew about the Corps is no more!
Retailers: This issue will ship with two covers. Please see the...
- 4/11/2011
- by Glenn Hauman
- Comicmix.com
The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation has announced the nominees for its 22nd annual GLAAD Media Awards! In the Outstanding Film (Wide Release) category, Lisa Cholodenko's "The Kids Are All Right" will duke it out with "Burlesque," "The Girl Who Played With Fire," "Scott Pilgrim vs. The World," and "Easy A."
In the Outstanding Film (Limited Release) category, the nominees are "Howl," "I Love You Phillip Morris," "La Mission," "Patrik, Age 1.5," and "Undertow"
In the TV categories, "Glee," "True Blood," and "The Oprah Winfrey Show" are among those honored.
We will know the winners of the GLAAD Media Awards on March 19 in New York, April 16 in Los Angeles, and May 14 in San Francisco.
Here's the full list of nominees:
Outstanding Film - Wide Release
Burlesque (Screen Gems)
Easy A (Screen Gems)
The Girl Who Played with Fire (Music Box Films)
The Kids Are All Right (Focus Features)
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World...
In the Outstanding Film (Limited Release) category, the nominees are "Howl," "I Love You Phillip Morris," "La Mission," "Patrik, Age 1.5," and "Undertow"
In the TV categories, "Glee," "True Blood," and "The Oprah Winfrey Show" are among those honored.
We will know the winners of the GLAAD Media Awards on March 19 in New York, April 16 in Los Angeles, and May 14 in San Francisco.
Here's the full list of nominees:
Outstanding Film - Wide Release
Burlesque (Screen Gems)
Easy A (Screen Gems)
The Girl Who Played with Fire (Music Box Films)
The Kids Are All Right (Focus Features)
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World...
- 1/20/2011
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
This week: Who’s really the most powerful gay guy in the world? Is Mark “Money for Nothing” Knopfler homophobic?
Have a question about gay male entertainment? Contact me here (and be sure and include your city and state and/or country!
Q: Recently, I've been reading about the movie Role/Play starring real-life boyfriends Matthew Montgomery and Steve Callahan and it got me thinking about gay-themed movies in which the gay leads, romantic or otherwise, are portrayed by openly gay actors. So far I've come up with seven other movies: Adam & Steve, Back Soon, Eating Out 3, A Four Letter Word, Long Term Relationship, Save Me, and Shortbus. Are there any others out there? -- Aaron, Chicago
A: There are surprisingly few.
Generally speaking, the lower the budget, the more likely the actors are to be gay and out. Why? Well, not to be unkind to some very talented indie actors,...
Have a question about gay male entertainment? Contact me here (and be sure and include your city and state and/or country!
Q: Recently, I've been reading about the movie Role/Play starring real-life boyfriends Matthew Montgomery and Steve Callahan and it got me thinking about gay-themed movies in which the gay leads, romantic or otherwise, are portrayed by openly gay actors. So far I've come up with seven other movies: Adam & Steve, Back Soon, Eating Out 3, A Four Letter Word, Long Term Relationship, Save Me, and Shortbus. Are there any others out there? -- Aaron, Chicago
A: There are surprisingly few.
Generally speaking, the lower the budget, the more likely the actors are to be gay and out. Why? Well, not to be unkind to some very talented indie actors,...
- 11/29/2010
- by Brent Hartinger
- The Backlot
Strand Releasing
NEW YORK -- Style takes precedence over content in this fourth installment of Strand Releasing's popular series of gay-themed short-film compilations. Perhaps the weakest edition of the series, "Boys Life 4: Four Play" features a quartet of efforts more reflective of the filmmakers' career aspirations than of a desire for meaningful expression. The film is playing an exclusive theatrical engagement at New York's Quad Cinema.
The opener, "L.T.R.", from writer-director Phillip J. Bartell, at least displays a timeliness in its satirical look at reality TV, which this summer has been on a particularly gay-oriented bent. It depicts the unraveling of the so-called "long-term relationship" between pot-smoking, stay-at-home Riley (Weston Mueller) and the younger, party-animal Michael (Cole Williams), a relationship not at all helped by the sexual fling between Michael and the filmmaker documenting their story.
Another rocky relationship is examined in Brian Sloan's "Bumping Heads", depicting the developing friendship between thirtysomething Craig (Craig Chester) and much younger Gary (Anderson Gabrych), who meet when their noggins collide at a party. Craig wants the relationship to progress into something more romantic but is unable to act on his desire until yet another incident of head bumping lands him in the hospital.
The most serious entry, Alan Brown's "O Beautiful", uses the Matthew Shepard incident for inspiration in its depiction of the aftermath of a gay-bashing incident in which a young man (Jay Gillespie) has been left for dead in a Midwestern cornfield. One of his attackers (David Rogers) returns to help him, with his true motivations only gradually becoming clear. Its extensive use of split screen is more distracting than illuminating.
But not as distracting as it is in "This Car Up", Eric Mueller's trivial depiction of the "meet cute" between a yuppie exec (Michael Booth) and a sinewy bike messenger (Brent Doyle), in which the relentless use of split screen is as annoying gimmicky as it's been in Mike Figgis' feature-length experiments.
NEW YORK -- Style takes precedence over content in this fourth installment of Strand Releasing's popular series of gay-themed short-film compilations. Perhaps the weakest edition of the series, "Boys Life 4: Four Play" features a quartet of efforts more reflective of the filmmakers' career aspirations than of a desire for meaningful expression. The film is playing an exclusive theatrical engagement at New York's Quad Cinema.
The opener, "L.T.R.", from writer-director Phillip J. Bartell, at least displays a timeliness in its satirical look at reality TV, which this summer has been on a particularly gay-oriented bent. It depicts the unraveling of the so-called "long-term relationship" between pot-smoking, stay-at-home Riley (Weston Mueller) and the younger, party-animal Michael (Cole Williams), a relationship not at all helped by the sexual fling between Michael and the filmmaker documenting their story.
Another rocky relationship is examined in Brian Sloan's "Bumping Heads", depicting the developing friendship between thirtysomething Craig (Craig Chester) and much younger Gary (Anderson Gabrych), who meet when their noggins collide at a party. Craig wants the relationship to progress into something more romantic but is unable to act on his desire until yet another incident of head bumping lands him in the hospital.
The most serious entry, Alan Brown's "O Beautiful", uses the Matthew Shepard incident for inspiration in its depiction of the aftermath of a gay-bashing incident in which a young man (Jay Gillespie) has been left for dead in a Midwestern cornfield. One of his attackers (David Rogers) returns to help him, with his true motivations only gradually becoming clear. Its extensive use of split screen is more distracting than illuminating.
But not as distracting as it is in "This Car Up", Eric Mueller's trivial depiction of the "meet cute" between a yuppie exec (Michael Booth) and a sinewy bike messenger (Brent Doyle), in which the relentless use of split screen is as annoying gimmicky as it's been in Mike Figgis' feature-length experiments.
Keen Insights at the Cutting 'Edge' / Gay coming-of-age tale boasts strong, understated portrayals
By Frank Scheck
NEW YORK -- This low-budget indie takes advantage of two trends -- gay coming-of-age stories ("Beautiful Thing", "Get Real") and 1980s nostalgia. The tale of a sensitive teenager's struggling with his sexuality in 1984 Ohio, "Edge of Seventeen" offers some finely observed moments but is unlikely to break out of its particular niche and appeal much beyond its target audience. The film opens exclusively today at New York's Quad Cinema.
Eric Hunter (Chris Stafford) is a handsome, fresh-faced youth spending his summer slinging burgers at the local amusement park's fast food restaurant. There, he encounters the aptly named Rod (Andersen Gabrych), a strapping blond college boy who quickly makes known his desire for Eric.
Eric returns the feelings even if he doesn't quite understand them, and it isn't long before the pair, in between whipped-cream fights and debates about the comparative merits of Annie Lennox and Madonna, are making out in the storage room.
Eric Best's friend is the cute Maggie (Tina Holmes), who comes to believe that she and Eric are a romantic couple even as he becomes more and more oriented to his gay identity. She overlooks the fact that Eric and Rod are physically affectionate, and that Eric -- donning eye makeup and dyeing his hair orange -- resembles David Bowie in his Ziggy Stardust period. Eric's loving parents are also unaware of his inclinations, although his more attentive mother has suspicions.
The film does an admirable job of delineating Eric's existential dilemma and presenting his tentative forays into his new lifestyle with precise, sexually graphic details. Many aspects of the story are handled with sensitivity and insight, including Maggie's anxiety over her role in Eric's life. Director David Moreton does a fine job re-creating the story's mid-'80s milieu, and the well-chosen musical score includes such characteristic but lesser-known bands of the period as Haircut 100 and Bronski Beat.
The young, attractive cast members deliver sensitive, understated portrayals that go a long way toward providing the film with a sense of realism, while Lea DeLaria -- as Eric's butch, lesbian boss with a heart of gold -- infuses the proceedings with some needed over-the-top comic energy.
EDGE OF SEVENTEEN
Strand Releasing
Credits: Director: David Moreton; Screenplay: Todd Stephens; Producers: David Moreton, Todd Stephens; Co-producer:Michael Wolfson; Director of photography: Gina Degirolamo; Editor: Tal Ben-David; Music:Tom Bailey. Cast: Eric: Chris Stafford; Maggie: Tina Holmes; Rod: Andersen Gabrych; Mom: Stephanie McVay; Angie: Lea DeLaria; Dad: John Eby. No MPAA rating. Color/stereo. Running time -- 100 minutes.
By Frank Scheck
NEW YORK -- This low-budget indie takes advantage of two trends -- gay coming-of-age stories ("Beautiful Thing", "Get Real") and 1980s nostalgia. The tale of a sensitive teenager's struggling with his sexuality in 1984 Ohio, "Edge of Seventeen" offers some finely observed moments but is unlikely to break out of its particular niche and appeal much beyond its target audience. The film opens exclusively today at New York's Quad Cinema.
Eric Hunter (Chris Stafford) is a handsome, fresh-faced youth spending his summer slinging burgers at the local amusement park's fast food restaurant. There, he encounters the aptly named Rod (Andersen Gabrych), a strapping blond college boy who quickly makes known his desire for Eric.
Eric returns the feelings even if he doesn't quite understand them, and it isn't long before the pair, in between whipped-cream fights and debates about the comparative merits of Annie Lennox and Madonna, are making out in the storage room.
Eric Best's friend is the cute Maggie (Tina Holmes), who comes to believe that she and Eric are a romantic couple even as he becomes more and more oriented to his gay identity. She overlooks the fact that Eric and Rod are physically affectionate, and that Eric -- donning eye makeup and dyeing his hair orange -- resembles David Bowie in his Ziggy Stardust period. Eric's loving parents are also unaware of his inclinations, although his more attentive mother has suspicions.
The film does an admirable job of delineating Eric's existential dilemma and presenting his tentative forays into his new lifestyle with precise, sexually graphic details. Many aspects of the story are handled with sensitivity and insight, including Maggie's anxiety over her role in Eric's life. Director David Moreton does a fine job re-creating the story's mid-'80s milieu, and the well-chosen musical score includes such characteristic but lesser-known bands of the period as Haircut 100 and Bronski Beat.
The young, attractive cast members deliver sensitive, understated portrayals that go a long way toward providing the film with a sense of realism, while Lea DeLaria -- as Eric's butch, lesbian boss with a heart of gold -- infuses the proceedings with some needed over-the-top comic energy.
EDGE OF SEVENTEEN
Strand Releasing
Credits: Director: David Moreton; Screenplay: Todd Stephens; Producers: David Moreton, Todd Stephens; Co-producer:Michael Wolfson; Director of photography: Gina Degirolamo; Editor: Tal Ben-David; Music:Tom Bailey. Cast: Eric: Chris Stafford; Maggie: Tina Holmes; Rod: Andersen Gabrych; Mom: Stephanie McVay; Angie: Lea DeLaria; Dad: John Eby. No MPAA rating. Color/stereo. Running time -- 100 minutes.
- 5/18/1999
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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