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DocFest: Rabbit Fever
Date:
10/27/2009
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"It starts from a love of the cute and furry animals," explained filmmaker Amy Do, director of Docfest's Rabbit Fever. "Kids start with them as pets, and it just keeps growing." The Appeal chatted with Amy before the premier of her documentary Sunday night at the Roxie, and asked her the same question that absolutely everyone must: why on Earth have you made a movie about competitive teenage rabbit breeding?... [Read more...]

Frameline 31: Starrbooty
Date:
06/29/2007
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Whoops, sorry we're so late getting this post up -- we lost our notes and tore up the house before resigning ourselves to the idea that somewhere, someone is going to find a notebook with "the lighter side of rape" scrawled across the first page. That comment refers to Give Piece of Ass a Chance, a new Bruce LaBruce short that preceeded Starrbooty. It's a speculative spoofing of the... [Read more...]

Opening Tonight: Another Gay Movie
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08/04/2006
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"Finally, we have our own gay American Pie," Frameline board member and friend-of-SFist Glenn Kiser said as he introduced Another Gay Movie. Frameline sneak-peek-screened the film last month to a sold-out audience, and now it finally opens tonight at the Castro. And, yeah, that's a fairly accurate description: it's a naughty, goofy, lowbrow romp (yes! that's right! a romp!) about a team of gay kids who want nothing more out... [Read more...]

S/M at the Movies and The Best of CineKink
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11/07/2005
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We've said it before and we'll say it again: You are all a bunch of weirdos. There was probably no greater message than that to be gleaned from Saturday night's CineKink screenings; that all humans are strange and kinky creatures, and the ones who don't admit it are the weirdoiest of them all. The NYC-based fest flogs itself as a celebration of "alternative sexuality," a term almost as ambiguous and... [Read more...]

Tammy Faye: Death Defying
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06/27/2005
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It's not easy watching somebody die, but Tammy Faye: Death Defying relishes every minute. Slow piano music, swooshy overproduced graphics, gosh-darn-it voiceovers by the lady herself, and crying -- oh God, so much crying -- might leave you thinking that Ms. Messner's the first person to ever need chemotherapy. A mundane follow-up to the incredible The Eyes of Tammy Faye, Death Defying strips away so much of Tammy Faye's... [Read more...]