Just Turn Her Loose on Broadway: Our Critics Discuss Forever Female (for Parterre Box)
The lead role is a wonderful fit for Ginger Rogers, who plays it with brassy charm and a laudable sense of humor.
Velvet Underwhelmed: Our critics discuss The Velvet Touch (for Parterre Box)
Camp is the lens through which this film is best examined, including an utterly bewildering cross-pollinating of genres.
Where the Boys Are: DF and CK on Ryan Murphy’s The Boys in the Band (for Parterre Box)
BOYS could be seen as the gay equivalent of SHOW BOAT—hugely important, and now extremely problematic.
A Life in the Theater: DF and CK discuss All About Eve (for Parterre Box)
All About Eve continues to hold an undeniable and lasting interest for gay viewers.
To Seek and Find: David and Cameron Discuss Now, Voyager (for Parterre Box)
The candor of some aspects of this Bette Davis classic is truly startling.
Slow Curtain: David and Cameron Discuss Of Human Bondage and The Whales of August
Two films 50 years apart prove that Bette Davis is always—gloriously—Bette Davis.
Do You Ever Dream of Vienna?— Cameron and David Discuss Johnny Guitar (for Parterre Box)
The delightfully subversive Western features one of Joan Crawford’s most iconic performances.
Two Sisters: What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? Revisited (for Parterre Box)
As Blanche Hudson might have said, “It’s still a pretty good picture”… and then some!
Going South: Looking at Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte (for Parterre Box)
Another installment in our series on Bette Davis brings us to the second thriller in the famous Robert Aldrich diptych.
On the Wings of Eagels: More Versions of Maugham’s The Letter on Film (for Parterre Box)
Jeanne Eagels and Siobhan McKenna show that there are many ways to write The Letter.
