AwardsWatch - Reviews

Talking Madonna with Erik and Abdi: Episode 7 – ‘RAY OF LIGHT’ (1998)

Erik Anderson May 7, 2020

We’ve reached the halfway mark, the 7th of Madonna’s 14 studio albums and a turning point in her career and her personal life, Ray of... Read More

TV Rucap: RuPaul’s Secret Celebrity Drag Race: Episode 2 – “Twerks of my Tears”

Daniel Trainor and Sam Stone May 2, 2020

Welcome to this week’s recap of the now world famous “RuPaul’s Secret Celebrity Drag Race!” In the premiere last week, our contestants were less celebrities... Read More

TV Rucap: RuPaul’s Drag Race S12 E10 – “Send in the Clones”

David Acacia May 1, 2020

Jackie Cox is the latest queen to have survived a Lip Sync (her first), and when the queens return to the Werk Room to Widow... Read More

TV Recap: Top Chef All-Stars LA Episode 7 “Pitch Perfect”

Daniel Trainor and Sam Stone April 30, 2020

Welcome to another recap of “Top Chef: All-Stars L.A.!” We’re without our fashion queen Nini, but Karen has worked some magic in Last Chance Kitchen... Read More

Film Review: Adèle Haenel and Jean Dujardin in ‘Deerskin’

Jason Adams April 30, 2020

It begins with the kernel of an idea. Like literally let us say for our argument’s sake an actual kernel. A popcorn kernel. What if,... Read More

Talking Madonna with Erik and Abdi: Episode 6 – ‘BEDTIME STORIES’ (1994)

Erik Anderson April 30, 2020

After the deep disco of Erotica and the intense blowback of its overt sexuality (and that book), Madonna gets into her groove on with her... Read More

Film Review: ‘Pray Away’ cements itself as a definitive documentary on conversion therapy

Amelia Merrill April 29, 2020

Films about conversion therapy and its survivors have been popular in recent years: 2018 brought both Desiree Akhavan’s The Miseducation of Cameron Post, where a... Read More

TV Review: ‘I Know This Much Is True’ is a standout ballet of duality

Dewey Singleton April 29, 2020

I Know This Much Is True tells the story of the Birdsey twins Dominick and Thomas and how the latter’s diagnosis of Paranoid Schizophrenia had... Read More