Following his directorial breakout Hedwig and the Angry Inch in 2001, John Cameron Mitchell followed it up a half-a-decade later with 2006’s subversive sex dramedy Shortbus. Now celebrating its 15th anniversary following its Cannes debut, the film has undergone a 4K restoration and a new trailer has arrived ahead of a theatrical run beginning at IFC Center on January 26 via Oscilloscope Laboratories.
Starring Sook-Yin Lee, Paul Dawson, Lindsay Beamish, Pj Deboy, Raphael Barker, Peter Stickles, Jay Brannan, and Justin Vivian Bond, the film follows the lives of several emotionally challenged characters as they navigate the comic and tragic intersections between love and sex in and around a modern-day underground salon. A sex therapist who has never had an orgasm, a dominatrix who is unable to connect, a gay couple who are deciding whether to open up their relationship, and the people who weave in and out of their lives, all converge...
Starring Sook-Yin Lee, Paul Dawson, Lindsay Beamish, Pj Deboy, Raphael Barker, Peter Stickles, Jay Brannan, and Justin Vivian Bond, the film follows the lives of several emotionally challenged characters as they navigate the comic and tragic intersections between love and sex in and around a modern-day underground salon. A sex therapist who has never had an orgasm, a dominatrix who is unable to connect, a gay couple who are deciding whether to open up their relationship, and the people who weave in and out of their lives, all converge...
- 1/10/2022
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
For Pride Month Team Experience is looking at favorite scenes from Lgbt cinema. Here's guest contributor Steven Fenton...
John Cameron Mitchell’s Shortbus explores issues of identity, pride, and patriotism at the intersection of sex and otherness in response to the pervasive anxiety in New York post 9/11. The film’s unabashed, unsimulated sex scenes challenge the audience to look beyond the bodies, reframing sex as a universal language; a means of creating connection; and a path toward self-discovery.
One of the film’s best moments is a brilliantly staged threesome where Ceth (Jay Brannan), Jamie (Pj DeBoy), and James (Paul Dawson) are locked in a sexual pyramid.
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John Cameron Mitchell’s Shortbus explores issues of identity, pride, and patriotism at the intersection of sex and otherness in response to the pervasive anxiety in New York post 9/11. The film’s unabashed, unsimulated sex scenes challenge the audience to look beyond the bodies, reframing sex as a universal language; a means of creating connection; and a path toward self-discovery.
One of the film’s best moments is a brilliantly staged threesome where Ceth (Jay Brannan), Jamie (Pj DeBoy), and James (Paul Dawson) are locked in a sexual pyramid.
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- 6/18/2016
- by Steven Fenton
- FilmExperience
Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune
Naughty Dog
Sony Computer Entertainment
PS3
“Charted: Drake Reviewed or Even if There Aren’t Nazis to Shoot, You Can Still Feel Like Indy”
The title of Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune hints at two things; going into unknown places and getting rich. Yes, it is a game in the grand tradition of Indiana Jones and the legacy of serials from which those films drew. In the course of the roughly 8 hour campaign you will visit ancient ruins, dark caverns, and shoot lots of people.
Unlike Indiana Jones, Nathan Drake does not pretend to be an archaeologist. He is a treasure hunter through and through. Him and his partner Sully are interested in ancient artifacts that will fetch a hefty price on the black market. Even though his profession is one that makes scholars cry, his personality makes up for it (kind of). He is the quintessential...
Naughty Dog
Sony Computer Entertainment
PS3
“Charted: Drake Reviewed or Even if There Aren’t Nazis to Shoot, You Can Still Feel Like Indy”
The title of Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune hints at two things; going into unknown places and getting rich. Yes, it is a game in the grand tradition of Indiana Jones and the legacy of serials from which those films drew. In the course of the roughly 8 hour campaign you will visit ancient ruins, dark caverns, and shoot lots of people.
Unlike Indiana Jones, Nathan Drake does not pretend to be an archaeologist. He is a treasure hunter through and through. Him and his partner Sully are interested in ancient artifacts that will fetch a hefty price on the black market. Even though his profession is one that makes scholars cry, his personality makes up for it (kind of). He is the quintessential...
- 5/21/2014
- by Paul Dawson
- SoundOnSight
When AfterElton asked me if I'd be interested in doing a story on full-frontal male nudity in the movies, I said, “Interested? I've been researching it since I was 12!” What prompted the idea is of course the film Shame, which stars Michael Fassbender as a man addicted to sex. When the film debuted at the Venice Film Festival earlier this year it set off a shockwave because of its sexual explicitness, including a much-discussed full-frontal reveal by Fassbender. Add to that the recent flurry of attention that stills of Jonathan Groff's nude scene in Twelve Thirty hitting the Internet generated, and it seems like these days cinema penises are a trending topic.
Everyone from film critics to Freudian analysts to gender theorists has written about male nudity in film. And sorting through the pronouncements on the male gaze and Lacanian mirrors and power inequities between the sexes in Hollywood...
Everyone from film critics to Freudian analysts to gender theorists has written about male nudity in film. And sorting through the pronouncements on the male gaze and Lacanian mirrors and power inequities between the sexes in Hollywood...
- 12/5/2011
- by fakename
- The Backlot
Real-life gay couples who both act, and whether Mark Indelicato and Chris Colfer will end up bitter and typecast like Sean Hayes! Plus, a Simon Rex sex-tape scandal primer!
Have a question about gay male entertainment? Contact me here (and be sure and include your city and state and/or country!)
Q: I have always had a massive movie crush on the ever-darling Simon Rex. I was not of the generation that lived through his rise to stardom and/or the revelation of pre-stardom past. How did he survive it? How did the gay community go through it? It seems stunning to me that the news of his past is not more widely discussed. Was it well discussed in the past, or simply a notch on a tabloid page? Did he ever fend off allegations of him being gay? – Maharajah, West Palm Beach, Fl
A: I appreciate your interest in gay history,...
Have a question about gay male entertainment? Contact me here (and be sure and include your city and state and/or country!)
Q: I have always had a massive movie crush on the ever-darling Simon Rex. I was not of the generation that lived through his rise to stardom and/or the revelation of pre-stardom past. How did he survive it? How did the gay community go through it? It seems stunning to me that the news of his past is not more widely discussed. Was it well discussed in the past, or simply a notch on a tabloid page? Did he ever fend off allegations of him being gay? – Maharajah, West Palm Beach, Fl
A: I appreciate your interest in gay history,...
- 4/26/2010
- by Brent Hartinger
- The Backlot
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