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‘My Beautiful Laundrette’ on Prime Video and Paramount+

!Featured, Academy Award nominee, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, British Cinema, drama, DVD, LGBTQ, Paramount+, socially aware cinema, Streaming Movies, SVOD 09/15/2022 Sean Axmaker

Daniel Day-Lewis became an international star in this groundbreaking British film that also was the breakthrough for director Stephen Frears and screenwriter Hanif Kureishi.

Michael Douglas as Liberace and Matt Damon as Scott Thorson in Behind the Candelabra

‘Behind the Candelabra’ – Michael Douglas is Liberace on HBO Max

!Featured, Based on a nonfiction book, based on a true story, biographical, Blu-ray, DVD, Emmy Award, Have You Seen...?, HBO Max, LGBTQ, LGBTQ, music, psychological drama, Streaming Movies, SVOD 05/31/2022 Sean Axmaker 1 Comment

Steven Soderbergh’s film of the tell-all memoir by Liberace’s young lover (played by Matt Damon) won 11 Emmy Awards.

Adèle Exarchopoulos and Léa Seydoux star in 'Blue is the Warmest Color,' directed by Abdellatif Kechiche

‘Blue Is the Warmest Color’ on VOD and Blu-ray/DVD

!Featured, Blu-ray, Cannes winner, Criterion, DVD, Film Independent Spirit Awards, high school, International Cinema, LGBTQ, Romance, socially aware cinema, SVOD 08/15/2020 Sean Axmaker

Filmmaker Abdellatif Kechiche explores the lives of outsiders looking for their place in Blue is the Warmest Color (France, 2013) an intimate love story based on a graphic novel. Thanks to Academy rules for foreign films, it wasn’t eligible for an Oscar nomination due to the timing of its French theatrical release. But it took home […]

Margit Carstensen stars in the film by Rainer Werner Fassbinder

RW Fassbinder’s ‘The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant’ on Amazon Prime Video

!Featured, adapted from the stage, Amazon Prime Video, Blu-ray, drama, DVD, International Cinema, LGBTQ, SVOD 01/03/2019 Sean Axmaker

Rainer Werner Fassbinder adapted his own stage play for The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (Germany, 1972), a modern twist on The Women, the great all-woman Hollywood classic of sex and social conventions in high society. Margit Carstensen is successful fashion designer Petra von Kant, who lives alone in her stark apartment with Marlene […]

Nick Robinson in the gay coming-of-age romantic comedy from director Greg Berlanti

What to stream: ‘Set it Up’ and the end of ‘Portlandia’ on Netflix, ‘King of California’ on Prime Video, ‘Love, Simon’ on VOD

!Featured, Acorn TV, Amazon Prime Video, Hulu, LGBTQ, Netflix, On Demand, SVOD, VOD 06/15/2018 Sean Axmaker

Here’s what’s new and ready to stream now on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, HBO Now, Showtime Anytime, FilmStruck, video-on-demand, and other streaming services … Love, Simon (2018, PG-13) uses the familiar conventions of the coming-of-age teenage romantic comedy for the story of a gay high school boy (Nick Robinson) coming out to his friends and […]