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Wednesday, June 28, 2023 at 8:00AM Can you guess the movie from its first and last shot? This one is for Pride Month
The answer if you scroll down is after the jump...
LGBTQ+, first and last Tuesday, June 27, 2023 at 11:14PM By Nathaniel R
The weekend looked, at first glance, exactly like the first weekend in June as Across the Spider-Verse and Past Lives topped the box office charts for wide and limited release. That shows both films excellent word of mouth and staying power. On the other hand, it's a horrible sign for what Hollywood is offering up each weekend that audiences aren't being distracted by the shiny newer films...
| Weekend Box Office (actuals) June 23rd-25th 🔺 = new or expanding / ★ = Recommended |
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| WIDE (Over 800 Screens) | LIMITED / PLATFORM |
 ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE |
 PAST LIVES |
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1 ★ SPIDER-MAN ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE $19 (cum. $316,7) 3785 screens |
1 🔺 PAST LIVES $1.1 (cum. $3.5) 296 screens |
box office Tuesday, June 27, 2023 at 8:00AM Can you guess the movie from its first and last shot?
The answer is after the jump if you scroll down...
first and last Monday, June 26, 2023 at 9:01PM by Nathaniel R
FIRE ISLAND © Searchlight wins the Dorian
GALECA, the Society of LGBTQ+ Entertainment critics have been busy of late, launching the theater wing of their Dorian Awards, and this week announcing their annual TV Dorian Award winners (which multiple members of The Film Experience vote on). HBO and HBOMax or Max – whatever you want to call them – led the nominations in a landslide with The Last of Us, Somebody Somewhere, Succession, and The White Lotus all scoring in a big way. HBO’s nomination tally was literally more than double any of its competitors.
The big winners were Succession, Abbott Elementary, last summers great streaming romcom Fire Island. The complete list of winners and nominees (plus a few comments) are after the jump...
Monday, June 26, 2023 at 1:00PM For Pride Month, Team Experience is looking at LGBTQ+ related Oscar nominations...
by Nick Taylor
Hello! Are you an enterprising young queer and/or MILF lover fresh off the newest season of Yellowjackets looking for another story of dangerous, imaginative, mentally unwell young women starring THE Melanie Lynskey? Would you like it to focus on an obsessive life-bond so intense it has almost no choice but to be queer? What if this one was based on a true story? Then have I got a film for you! Try your hand at Heavenly Creatures, the restaging of the infamous Parker-Hulme murder case in 1954 New Zealand about two pubescent girls so wrapped up in the fantasy world they’ve created over two years of isolating friendship that the only way the can imagine protecting each other from life’s unsustainable realities is to kill Mom.
Heavenly Creatures was directed by Peter Jackson, an inspired, imaginative artist whose soul would soon be held hostage by The Shire for decades. The film brought Jackson to international attention for the first time in his career, and netted an Original Screenplay nomination at the 1994 Oscars for himself and his writing/life partner Fran Walsh to boot. This is the sort of Screenplay nomination I deeply admire the Academy for making, even if I wish this pocket of support could have somehow translated to love for the direction, the actresses, the cinematography, and every technical element necessary to bringing Borovnia to life...
