Looking for love—or something significantly quicker—has never been possible in quite as many ways as it is today, thanks to the rise of the Internet and social apps on smart phones. Finding guys who fit a particular type, though, can sometimes be a bit more challenging. For many gay men across the world, that’s where […]
As the Atlanta Eagle enters its 26th year, a number of changes are coming to the establishment. Get ready for a flurry of new activity. With the lawsuits filed by the Eagle and several of its patrons in relation to the Atlanta Police Department’s 2009 raid now in the proverbial rearview mirror for the establishment, […]
Talk about a massive miscalculation. When Paramount decided to make a sequel to G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, they jettisoned most of the cast and reduced Channing Tatum’s presence drastically. The sequel, G.I. Joe: Retaliation, was ready to release last summer until something unexpected happened: Channing Tatum became a box office draw, thanks to The Vow, 21 Jump […]
Arriving in Atlanta theaters this week: Admission, the new film starring Tina Fey as Princeton admissions officer Portia Nathan. Portia’s world is turned upside down by a series of personal revelations and interactions with John Pressman (Paul Rudd), a free-wheeling do-gooder who believes his student, Jeremiah (Nat Wolff), is the son Portia gave up for adoption […]
Launching this week are a pair of major-studio releases, along with the Atlanta arrival of the English-language directorial debut of a notable Korean director. Korean director Park Chan-wook, whose releases include Oldboy and Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, makes his English-language debut with Stoker, an arresting psychological thriller starring Mia Wasikowska, Matthew Goode and Nicole Kidman, and written by […]
Fans of LGBT cinema looking for a fix before Out on Film returns this fall have an outlet at the Atlanta Film Festival, which returns to Atlanta March 15–24. The six films that make up the Pink Peach Feature Competition take on love, relationships, politics, religion, and some good old S&M. That last theme features […]
This week’s box office releases take place in lands near and far, as a cinema classic gets a prequel of sorts, a piece of history is revisited, and the filmmaker and star of one of the most notable film adaptations in recent years reunite. The behemoth of the box office this week, of course, is Oz […]
This week’s all about the guys, at least at the nation’s box office. Yes, it’s a testosterone-laden mix of action, comedy and drama as the world waits for next week’s appearance by a particular wizard. The biggest release this week is Jack the Giant Slayer. In this melding of the classic fairytales “Jack and the Beanstalk” […]
Continuing its recent tradition of fall-timed dates, the Atlanta Pride Festival—touted as the Southeast’s largest Pride festival—returns to Piedmont Park Oct. 12-13. 2013 marks the fifth year of Atlanta Pride’s occurrence in the fall season, following 2008’s temporary change of venue from Piedmont Park to the Atlanta Civic Center. Since 2010, the annual festival has […]
Recent Oscar seasons have typically been long, drawn-out affairs where everyone knows who’s going to win far before the actual Academy Awards ceremony. Not this year, though. Thanks to a wide number of Oscar hopefuls, this year’s roundup of nominees is proving difficult to pin down. The only thing certain? Seth MacFarlane’s turn as Oscar […]
