Thanks for all these iconic LGTB film shout-outs—yes, the '95 "Stonewall" is essential viewing, and much more diverse. (The opening credits alone to "The Boy from New York City" are a gas.) MLP was also in "Fried Green Tomatoes" and "Angels in America." Many sites like the late lamented AfterElton and whatnot used to…

Yes. Totally appropriate metaphor, heavy-handed writing.

I lived in SF for 3 years, and let me tell you, SF thinks it is the center of the entire universe—if it didn't happen there, it's not worth mentioning. ("Only in San Francisco!" indeed.) Fortunately lots of other iconic LGBT films and stories are set in NYC, but you're right, this miniseries isn't one of them. …

It's actually a shame "the Playboy Club" was cancelled—they had a subplot about the Mattachine society, and a marriage between a gay man and a lesbian that was fascinating.

"Mansplaining" here…from what I've read, the feminist movement needs it's own miniseries!! The split between white women vs. women of color is something I've just become aware of in the past year or so (I didn't realize "feminism" was seen as a privileged white woman's movement in the past, compared with WOC who were…

You'd have to go back to oldies like "Jesus of Montreal" :"Brother Sun Sister Moon" and even "Ben Hur" to find movies that begin to wrestle with The Tough Stuff—and even they're not in the league of things like "Dead Man Walking" or "The Magdalene Sisters."

See my post above—should help explain things.

flip that equation

Because "Crash" is the worst rated/reviewed movie to score Best Picture this century, if not in decades. (It also broke the rule since 1982 of having a Best Picture also win an acting and/or a Directing Oscar—and that was "Chariots of Fire.") Rotten Tomatoes has it as the worst-reviewed winner since it's year. The…

Naw, Kimmel actually looked close to tears when he said "I knew I'd screw this up." I think he was genuinely stunned, and he felt he should've somehow stepped in sooner to rectify things.

It's also the first LGBT-themed film to win Best Picture…ever. All the other nominees throughout the years (just winging it: "Cabaret" "Kiss of the Spider Woman" "The Color Purple" "Milk" "Brokeback Mountain" "The Hours" "The Kids Are Allright" and I know there were at least one or two others) for Best Picture got…

Yet another reason that, whatever Oscars this movie scoops up, Best Original Screenplay should not be one of them.

I love the way the "Star Wars" and "Psycho/Bates Motel" universes keep mining elements of Greek tragedy—specifically, how the sins or missteps of parents affect their children—and how the spiraling drama brings in other characters to the web.

Wow, you're good.

Thought "HF" was both notable for its subject matter AND for it's smooth-as-silk ride through comedy and drama, like a bicyclist juggling a 4-plate meal and never breaking a sweat. It earned the scene with the bathroom and Taraji unloading in a state of barely-suppressed rage. "Crash" starts off at fever pitch with…

Lots of my faves have been mentioned, so just two: "Bubble Boy" for Jake Gyllenhall's disarming sweetness and determination to find his dream girl, and then have his wildest dreams come true—in little undies, to "Wouldn't It Be Nice." And the climax of "Latter Days" at the restaurant is one of the great…

The ending is just…sublime.

God, I hate Mick Lasalle. Once in awhile he nails something, but the rest of the time he's not just wrongheaded he's openly sloppy and condescending, even when he's called out on it. (One viewer wrote in trying to remember a scene from a movie in a cabin with a man eating mouse, and Lasalle loftily said "I expect you…

Well, that's "The Way We Were"—you see them meet again years later and you can tell they don't love each other one iota less, but you know that what made them incompatible is non-negotiable and won't change.

Yeah, I think you're right on. The little talk they have the morning of the wedding ("I'm such a mess of a girl") shows how much they really get each other's foibles, in a way no one else would. (And has anyone ever turned someone down with such grace and kindness as Hepburn does JImmy Stewart when he proposes?)…