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Here’s this year’s Hollywood obituary reel.

Jessica Lange!

Movie description: Tragoidia Moving Pictures presents our first narrative feature film. Set during the exuberance between Stonewall and AIDS, Southern Knights is the story of one man’s struggle to reclaim his world after losing the love of his life in the tragic fire at the Upstairs Lounge in New Orleans. Wikipedia has an entry about the Upstairs Lounge fire, one …

What was your favorite movie of 2012?

Codebreaker aired last November on British television.  Single screenings are scheduled for next Thursday in NYC and DC.  The filmmakers have a launched an online request system for screenings in other cities. (Via Boy Culture)

“Kids will try to emulate the heroes (in movies like ‘Twilight’) and when they check out real occultism, they can be invaded by demonic forces. They have no clue that the devil and his angels are very real, and in Matthew and Revelation Jesus talks about the devil and his angels. When kids experiment with these things, they open up …

A couple of months ago I noted that the latest movie version of Les Miserables was filmed with the actors singing live on the set rather than lip-syncing to a prerecorded soundtrack. Today JMG reader Paul sends us this compilation of older movies that also featured live singing.

The “now faded” blue gingham dress worn by Judy Garland in The Wizard Of Oz sold at auction this weekend for $480,000. Julie Andrews’ Sound Of Music dress went for a relatively paltry $38K.

The Walt Disney Co. will pay George Lucas $4 billion for the company that brought us Star Wars. Disney CEO Bob Iger said in a statement that the acquisition is a great fit and will help preserve and grow the “Star Wars” franchise. “The last ‘Star Wars’ movie release was 2005’s ‘Revenge of the Sith’ — and we believe there’s …

Poz.com blogger and renowned activist Peter Staley tips us that closeted former NYC Mayor Ed Koch has reviewed the AIDS documentary, How To Survive A Plague. Staley notes that Koch fails to mention his own detestable role in thwarting the early response to what would become a global pandemic. From Koch’s review: While demonstrations were necessary to keep the issue …

Halloween approaches. Scariest movies roll call.

Former pro footballer Alex Karras, whose gay bodyguard character in Victor/Victoria endeared him to gay audiences, has died at the age of 77. Alex Karras, a fierce and relentless All-Pro lineman for the Detroit Lions whose irrepressible character placed him frequently at odds with football’s authorities but led to a second career as an actor on television and in the …

“This is the year of the gays in entertainment, in media in general, and frankly with the White House. We are being forced a pro-gay agenda [that exclaims] We must convert. They don’t even want tolerance; they won’t accept it — and they’re going to force it. People in Hollywood don’t know Christianity, they don’t know traditional values, they don’t …

Here’s the full track.

Today’s Swag Tuesday booty is a prize package for the new movie Gayby, which opens at select theaters nationwide on October 12th. The prize package includes a Gayby t-shirt, a Gayby tote bag, and two “run of engagement” passes to see the film at New York City’s Cinema Village. Sex with your best friend has never been this reproductive. Jenn …

How have your movie-watching habits changed in the last ten years?

This “extended look” trailer tells us that the actors were recorded live on the sets rather than lip-syncing to a prerecorded soundtrack, as is the norm for musicals. (Via Boy Culture)