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The Orville: Lasting Impressions (2019)
Another pathetic display by Gordon
Gordon continues to be painted as a pathetic, emotionally desperate loser on "The Orville", though this time they try (and fail) to make him sympathetic. Previously we've seen Gordon and his pal John create a dating "teaching" simulation in which Gordon is encouraged to not take no for an answer from holographic women, eventually reprogramming them to be dumbed down and easy to land.
This entire episode revolves around Gordon's desperate infatuation with a simulation he creates of a long-dead woman from hundreds of years ago, based on her recovered historical artifact: a cellular phone. Naturally the reality of complex human relationships comes into play and once again we find Gordon programming a simulation of a woman to meet his needs.
The Orville is an exceptional show but thus far it's biggest failing has been in depicting romantic relationships, and this episode is no exception.
Hurricane Bianca (2016)
Godawful Film With Terrible Acting and Writing
Bless Bianca del Rio, because she is a funny, talented drag queen.
Unfortunately doing drag, and even comedy on stage, does not equate to being a good actor. "Hurricane Bianca" is so poorly conceived, written and acted that it's painful. It's painful to watch talented people, including such comedic geniuses as Rachel Dratch, slug through this boringly unfunny piece of crap.
The premise is pretty basic: a gay man, desperate for better income, moves to Texas to teach science. He is fired for being gay, and comes back to the school in drag pretending to be a real woman to teach them all a lesson.
None of the characters have ANY dimension. They are all caricatures at best, just one note repeated over and over again. Most are boring tropes that would be more in place in a 90's gay-themed movie, but we've come so far that seeing these people now is trite. The fact is you end up not caring about anybody because of how broadly they are written.
And for what *is* written, the dialog is SO terrible that you'll wince. On top of that, half of the time it makes no sense. One moment Bianca is at a bar complaining that she can't order booze because it's a dry county, so another character takes her to a gay bar nearby to get drinks. In the very next scene, at the new bar, the woman orders them shots and Bianca says "Oh no, I can't drink. Bad things happen when I drink." You were JUST at another bar ordering a vodka tonic and bitching they didn't have it, queen! Make up your freaking mind!!!
It's these kind of schizophrenic discrepancies that make the movie so terrible. No one in the movie has any really defined personality traits. The rednecks are all terrible bigots, and the New York liberals are all heroic and compassionate. They speak in one-liners.
The worst part is that Bianca is just a terrible actor. The thing about broad comedy is that you still have to be real. If your actions, your performance, doesn't feel real then it stops being funny.
This movie is a must skip for every possible reason.
Queers of the Western Zombie Apocalypse (2015)
So funny
Just saw this at the E.C. Queer Film Festival and it has got to be one of the smartest, funniest things I've ever seen. If you're a horror fan , especially kind of campy comedy-horror - and super especially if you've seen 80's horror flicks like Night of the Comet - you have got to see this movie.
So like basically it starts with a bunch of loosely associated character who are all gay or queer in some way, and you get a brief introduction to each one's day. Then they all end up at a wild party and get trashed or high and end up either passing out or hooking up, basically spending the night.
Then they wake up in the trashy warehouse where they were partying, open the door, sunlight streams in, and BAM a horde of zombies streams in. A bunch of people die right away, but the main group escapes out the back and from there it's the funniest zombie movie I've ever seen.
What was awesome is I've never seen a movie that was at the same time coming from an unabashedly gay perspective but also genuinely delivering on thrills. My favorite characters were the super lesbian kennel owner and the lipstick lesbian socialite because (spoiler) their characters are at first so broadly drawn and by the end they are the most human and real feeling of the movie. When Puff says "I spent my whole life training dogs, and I am not ABOUT to die surrounded by whiny bitches!" and takes charge of the group at their lowest point, it was amazing.
I don't know why more movies like this can't get made. Usually gay indie movies are so badly written and acted but this was awesome. I hope the people who made it get an opportunity to legit get into movie making because if they did this with so little imagine what they can do with more!!!