As you wait for the most wonderful time of the year to begin, learn more about the star-studded movies you'll be watching 24/7 (!) from now through December. The gay short film DARE made a huge impression on audiences in 2004 with its story of Ben (Adam Fleming) and Johnny (Michael Cassidy), lustful teen crushes, and forbidden gay love in high school. One of the most anticipated adaptations of 2019. along with the entire week of Thanksgiving! - tune into Hallmark Channel's "Countdown to Christmas" to catch up with your favorite Hallmark regulars (and Queens of Christmas) Candace Cameron Bure, Jodie Sweetin, and Lacey Chabert. Riverdale ’s Camila Mendes also stars, in case you need another reason to look forward to this one.
Hallmark Movies & Mysteries kicks things off with "Miracles of Christmas," 16 all-new movies airing on Saturday and Sunday nights at 9 p.m. That means that we're in store for 40 times the hot cocoa, Christmas carols, and tree lighting scenes. Now that the holiday season is fast approaching, Hallmark is here to make our spirits bright (months in advance): To celebrate its 10th anniversary of holiday magic, Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Movies & Mysteries will air 40 brand-new Christmas movies in total, starting October 25. Rather, consider this a primer that helps illustrate the relationship between queer culture and the silver screen.The more, the merrier - especially when Hallmark Christmas movies are involved.
It is nowhere near a comprehensive rundown of every great movie to feature out-and-proud heroes and villains, or a queer sensibility, or even just visible (and/or risible) examples of gay life in cinema we could have easily made this list twice as long. And at the center of Fear Street is the romance between Deena ( Kiana Madeira) and Sam ( Olivia Welch ), two young women trying to find their place in the world. In honor of LGBTQ Pride Month, we’re singling out 50 essential LGBTQ films - from comedies to dramas, documentaries to cult classics, underground experimental work to studio blockbusters. Some have been documents of a moment or era of gay history, some have been used as correctives to decades of negative clichés, and others have simply celebrated the fact that the movies can be queer, they’re here, get used to it. But since those two men first danced, there have also been scores of stories, characters, and filmmakers that have presented the varied, multitudinous aspects of LGBTQ experiences 24 frames per second that have gone past those stereotypes, or flipped them on their heads. That clip appears in The Celluloid Closet, Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman’s documentary based on Vito Russo’s study of homosexuality in the movies, along with countless examples of how gay characters showed up, per narrator Lily Tomlin, as “something to laugh at, or something to pity, or even something to fear.” The history of representation is long, and extremely storied, often shaping how the public viewed “the love that dare not speak its name” for better or worse. The plot revolves around two gay characters Nicholas van der Swart and Dylan Stassen who attempt to come to terms with their homosexuality. It’s considered by many to be one of the first examples of gay imagery in film, and a reminder that homosexual representation has been with the medium from the very beginning. Movie: Moffie (2019) Moffie is a 2019 South African-British biographical war romantic drama film written and directed by Oliver Hermanus. While there’s nothing to outright suggest that these men were romantically involved or attracted to each other during the roughly 20-second length of their pas de deux, there is nothing that contradicts that notion either. It’s known as “The Dickson Experimental Sound Film,” and dates back to 1895, the same year movies were born. It was an experimental short made by William Dickson, designed to test syncing up moving pictures to prerecorded sound, a system that he and Thomas Edison were developing known as the Kinetophone. But this brief footage is not so ancient that you can’t clearly make out two men, waltzing together, as a third man plays a violin in the background.
It’s grainy, faded, and, given the clip is now 125 years old, more than a little worse for wear.