The fact that The Angry Birds Movie 2 narrowly missed my list is a testament to the variety and quality of the animated features released this year. There have only been a handful of films that have captured the imagination of the movie-going public in a serious way and there were a number of high profile, expensively produced bombs that littered the cinematic landscape ( The Secret Life of Pets ended up as a franchise nonstarter), but these things are true every year. I have been fatshamed and this is my response.With no clear frontrunner for the Best Animated Feature Oscar, many pundits are claiming that it was a lousy year for animation.A Night we were never Able to Re-Create.Saying YES to everything the Universe offers.Finishing my Tattoo Sleeve by Ondrash and DECASA.Solo Travelling a Country in Crisis: Sri Lanka.Did I include your personal favorite too? So much for my personal favorites when it comes to LGBT movies. I love this movie and when there is ever a real-life Shortbus, I wanna go there! It is not just for the LGBT+ community but does feature a lot of queer characters. Besides that, it is a great movie about sexual liberation and finding yourself. Shortbus is a movie by John Cameron Mitchell that sparked lots of controversies because the actors in the movie perform real sex scenes on screen. Both are concepts and productions by Andrew Haigh and since I like them so much, I have written separate blog posts about both, Weekend and Looking, in the past.
TOP 10 GAY MOVIES 2019 TV
Weekend is the movie that was used as the main inspiration for the short but awesome TV show Looking. Him being a rather homophobic straight dude it also tells the beautiful story of a straight man trying to find common grounds with the LGBT+ community. It is the real-life story of some of the first HIV/AIDS patients in America, including Ron Woodroof who smuggled meds from Mexico to the USA to treat his own illness as well as others. If you haven’t seen Dallas Buyers Club, the movie which led to an Oscar and a Golden Globe for both, Jared Leto and Matthew McConaughey, you better stream it now. This spot kinda belongs to all of these films. There are two more great German-speaking movies I wanna mention being Freier Fall und Die Mitte der Welt. The music, the visuals, the paranoia and last but not least the easiness of the portrayal of the gay main character make this movie a must-watch for everyone with strong nerves. It’s a techno horror thriller far away from the other movies on this list. Nevrland is an Austrian movie that debuted at Diagonale film festival this year. To avoid any spoilers I will just say that it is about a boy before his coming out – the rest you have to see for yourself. Sometimes Closet Monster is really weird and artsy and sometimes it feels very familiar and comfortable. This is one of those movies that is really hard to describe because it is so different from others. As a trans*woman (male to female) she has to go on a road trip to find a son she never she had and make peace with him before she can go forward with her final surgeries. This movie stars Desperate Housewives actress Felicity Huffmann in one of her most intense roles so far. The show starts a little shallow but actually gets in deep about problems the LGBT+ community used to have – and sometimes still does. When I watched it later, however, I found out how spot-on that description was.
TOP 10 GAY MOVIES 2019 SERIES
Okay, this might be another cliché and I have to admit when I first heard of QAF being the ‘gay Sex and the City’ I didn’t believe it and ignored the series for years. To that, I say that this movie features gay cowboys Jake Gyllenhall and Heath Ledger in one of his last roles and I don’t need more to be happy.
To get all the popular movies out early, I decided to give spot number 8 to Brokeback Mountain. It follows the two and their shifting dynamics and is an unexpected father-son story with many surprises. The movie Beginners is about a father (Christopher Plummer) coming out to his son (Ewan McGregor) as gay at an advanced age. Call Me By Your Name is a beautiful movie I enjoyed very much even though I am not sure as to how realistic it actually is. The story is set in Italy and besides being a gay love story also debates topics like age gap dating and gay history. I’m sure everyone has at least heard of this movie that sparked so much joy among the LGBT+ community all over the world. Today, I want to dedicate a blog post to my favorite gay movies and series. All I had was movies showing me that being different isn’t wrong and that I am not alone. I didn’t know anyone I was gay for a very long time. LGBT+ movies and series are what made me survive my teenage years.