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Dan Loughry

Dan Loughry

Novelist, Columnist & Reviewer at Hornet

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United States
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  • English
Covering topics
  • LGBT
  • Music
  • Entertainment

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OK, Let's Try This Whole 'Gay Rom-Com' Thing Again - Hornet

The box office for gay-themed films has been bleak this year. Between the stunted returns for Universal’s Bros and the otherworldly under-performance of Disney’s Strange World (both, by the way, solid movies), it’s hard to imagine major studios green-lighting anything with LGBTQ+ themes in the near future. The bright spots have been[…]
about 3 years ago
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'The People We Hate at the Wedding' Squanders Its Stellar Cast ... ...

Grant Ginder’s novels are breezy entertainments. Whether tackling the high-level insanities of politics or the messy misunderstandings within family resentments, he’s a precise, funny and unfussy writer. While watching The People We Hate at the Wedding, the first feature film based on his works, I kept asking myself if the[…]
about 3 years ago
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'The Menu' Serves Up Haute Cuisine Alongside Delicious Dark ... - h...

Anyone walking into The Menu having seen its trailer already knows the type of movie they should expect. Mark Mylod’s feature film debut, with a screenplay by Seth Reiss and Will Tracy, belongs to a long line of scandalous arthouse entertainments that run the gamut from Godardian brutalism (Weekend) to Buñuelian[…]
about 3 years ago
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Indie Pop With Edge: New Kuri Album 'I Love You, You're Welcome ......

Indie pop — which is pop that’s not as popular as it wants to be — is such a bane to modern music. The breathy vocals, the slavish production echo, the lyrics that might as well be in your own private made-up language, the entire genteel inoffensiveness of it: it’s[…]
about 3 years ago
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The Cate Blanchett-Starring 'TÁR' Offers a Slow, Subtle Discourse ....

Todd Field’s leisurely TÁR — his first feature in 16 years — is a spectacularly subtle film. Set in the world of classical music, the ambitious story touches on many things: the seduction of power and the traps of power structures, personal desires in the public arena, the capricious messiness of[…]
about 3 years ago
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'Bros' Isn't Perfect, But It's Important — and Hopefully a Sign of ...

Bros — the first studio-produced gay rom-com directed by Nicholas Stoller and co-written by its star Billy Eichner — is not, and cannot be, all things to all people. Self-aware to a fault, the film reminds us throughout its run time that the gay community is too diverse for one[…]
about 3 years ago
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'Moonage Daydream' Is Both Too Much David Bowie and Not Nearly ... ...

Is it possible — in a film about David Bowie — to have both too much of him and not nearly enough? This is the conundrum posed by Brett Morgen’s immersive, impressive and maddening documentary Moonage Daydream. The film is less documentary and more celebration event: a happening. Given access[…]
about 3 years ago
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Billy Porter Updates the John Hughes Rom-Com With Directorial ... -...

Anything’s Possible, Billy Porter’s directorial debut, is a vibrant high school love story that’s sweet-natured, breezy, messy, exasperating and trailblazing. This Pittsburgh-based romcom is John Hughes updated for an era of wokeness and a slap in the face of cynicism. Its heart isn’t just on its sleeve; it’s in its[…]
over 3 years ago
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Calum Scott's Sophomore Album Is the Ballad-Heavy Soundtrack for .....

Now that Sam Smith’s star has waned, is the world ready for another gay male Adele? New Calum Scott album Bridges, the follow-up to his successful debut Only Human, answers with a resounding yes. Are we ready for it? That depends. If you’re in the middle of a great big romantic[…]
over 3 years ago
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New Doc BALONEY Takes You Behind the Curtain of SF's Sexy ... - hor...

Joshua Guerci’s debut documentary BALONEY, a portrait of San Francisco’s beloved Gay All-Male Revue troupe and their burlesque of the same name, is an efficient, practically drama-free depiction of a fringe art collective. Midwifed by Michael Phillis and Rory Davis – directors, choreographers, and partners – the show has built[…]
over 3 years ago
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New 'Downton Abbey' Film Offers More Anglophile Fetish Porn From .....

When I say Downton Abbey: A New Era is Anglophile fetish porn, that’s not a criticism. I love an overstuffed period drama as much as the next gay. The lives of the Granthams and the Crawleys and the foibles and melodramas of the upstairs/downstairs population of the Downton estate has been[…]
over 3 years ago
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'Jonathan Agassi Saved My Life' Is a Documentary-Meets ... - Hornet...

Jonathan Agassi Saved My Life – a cinéma vérité, warts-and-all snapshot of the former Israeli porn star’s descent into drug addiction – is a cautionary tale wrapped in a documentary film acting as an intervention. “This film definitely saved me,” Agassi has said. “When I saw it for the first time, I said, ’I will[…]
over 3 years ago
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After 14 Years, Queer Indie Pop Royalty The Aluminum Group Are ... ...

When brothers John and Frank Navin, dba The Aluminum Group, self-released their debut Wonder Boy in 1995, the landscape of openly LGBTQ artists was sparse, queer content still a novelty amidst the post-grunge alt-rock ascendency. Their sound was unmistakably soft, teasing and, at times, acerbic. Now, 14 years on from[…]
over 3 years ago
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New Orville Peck Album 'Bronco' Seals the Deal: He's a First-Rate ....

“I cried a lot writing this album. Not to sound dramatic, but it really is the first thing I’ve truly been just so proud of in my life.” So says country’s most intriguing artist about the new Orville Peck album Bronco, his follow-up release to 2019’s Pony, a worldwide introduction to the bejeweled[…]
over 3 years ago
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The New Years & Years Album 'Night Call' Is Keeping Us On Our ... -...

The gay pop collective Years & Years is now basically the Olly Alexander show, though you wouldn’t know it by listening to their/his latest release, Night Call. The anonymous dance music and hi-def production is the same as on the group’s much-loved debut, Communion, and its lesser received follow-up, Palo Santo. The[…]
almost 4 years ago
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The Year's Best LGBTQ Albums: 31 Releases That Kept 2021 From ... -...

Another year has nearly come and gone, and while 2021 was a nightmare year for most of us, the music was, well, pretty great. Some of our favorite artists released new albums this year, many of them LGBTQ musicians. (And if it’s LGBTQ artists you’re looking for, be sure to[…]
almost 4 years ago
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Clooney's New Film 'The Tender Bar' Is Steady and Entertaining But ...

The Tender Bar, based on the memoir by J.R. Moehringer, is a modestly scaled family drama from director George Clooney. It may seem light years from 2020’s end-of-the-world sci-fi drama The Midnight Sky, but when you break them both down, they’re basically chamber pieces about the ties that bind us[…]
almost 4 years ago
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'Being the Ricardos' Grants Lucille Ball the Silver Screen Legacy ....

When news got out that Nicole Kidman was given the role of Lucille Ball in Being the Ricardos, internet trolls weren’t just expressing dismay, they were out for blood. True, to the outside eye, Kidman seems all kinds of wrong to play the greatest physical comedienne this country has ever seen[…]
almost 4 years ago
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Shudder's Holiday Horror Film 'The Advent Calendar' Intros a ... - ...

There’s nothing as bracing in the middle of the awards season slog of important big film spectacles than a nasty, disrespectful holiday horror movie. With all that humanity on display at the multiplexes, a bit of bloodletting and terror is exactly what’s needed. Throw another yule log on the fire[…]
about 4 years ago
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'House of Gucci' Is a High-Class Soap Opera Masquerading as a ... -...

For its first 40 minutes (of a 2:38 running time), Ridley Scott’s House of Gucci is full of promise. Between the working-class transportation office manager Patrizia Reggiani (Lady Gaga) and the awkward Maurizio Gucci (Adam Driver), son of Rodolfo Gucci (Jeremy Irons), the co-owner of the famous fashion brand; between the[…]
about 4 years ago
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The Berlin-Set Film 'Boy Meets Boy' Is an Authentically Queer Tale ...

Boy Meets Boy is a Berlin-set two-hander that’s a lot Before Sunrise with a little bit of Weekend thrown in for good measure. In other words, it’s a Socratic dialogue with flirting, a pinch of (inferred) sex, and a heart of melancholy that leaves two strangers, falling in love, stranded by geography. Two-handers —[…]
about 4 years ago