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5B (2019)

5B (2019)

When “gay cancer” started spreading in the early 1980s, so little was known about it, that it was not only terrifying to the gay community that it seemed to...

Linda
How to Survive a Plague

How to Survive a Plague

More of a document about AIDS activists than AIDS itself, How to Survive a Plague jumps feet-first into 1987, when AIDS had been around for six years and was...

Linda
RENT: Filmed Live on Broadway (2008)

RENT: Filmed Live on Broadway (2008)

First things first. Nothing will ever compare to the experience of seeing RENT live on stage. If you were lucky enough to see the revolutionary musical at the Nederlander...

John "Broadway" Bailey
3 Needles (2005)

3 Needles (2005)

It is hard to disparage a “message movie”, especially one with a topic as important as the worldwide AIDS epidemic. 3 Needles presents three thought-provoking tales (that don’t overlap,...

Linda
The Line of Beauty (2006)

The Line of Beauty (2006)

Based on Alan Hollinghurst’s Booker Prize-winning novel, The Line of Beauty shows Margaret Thatcher’s 80s-England through the eyes of a wide-eyed young gay man. Nick Guest (pretty Dan Stevens...

Linda
Angels in America

Angels in America (2003)

Set in New York at the dawn of the AIDS crisis, Angels in America is the story of several very different, but closely intertwined, lives. At the heart of...

Jennifer
The Event (2003)

The Event (2003)

Now, one of the things I love about going to film festivals is seeing movies “cold”… i.e. glancing over the schedule, eyeing the cast of a film, for instance,...

Linda
The Hours (2002)

The Hours (2002)

The Nose. Much hubbub has been made about The Nose. Specifically Nicole Kidman’s prosthetic nose in her role as Virginia Woolf in the film adaptation of Michael Cunningham’s acclaimed...

Linda