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Audience award-winner ‘S&M Judge’ to open CineKink: Chicago

Winner of the Audience Choice Award for Best Narrative Feature at CineKink NYC/2010, S&M Judge will be the centerpiece for the opening night of CineKink: Chicago, running November 19-20 at the Leather Archives and Museum. Directed by Flemish filmmaker Erik Lamens and based on a celebrated...

’S&M Judge’ to open CineKink NYC

>The CineKink “Season Opener” selection for our seventh annual film festival, CineKink NYC, running February 16-21, 2010, will be the US premiere of the award-winning drama, S&M Judge. Directed by Flemish filmmaker Erik Lamens and based on a celebrated Belgian incident, the film tells...

>More “do me,” less DOMA!

>While it's common belief that each letter received from a constituent represents at least 100 others who held that particular opinion, we're unsure of the equivalency of a mailed flip flop. What is clear, however, is that in the month ahead, President Obama has...

>So gay!

>Or, to be more politic, so same-sex!We're slightly chagrined to admit, but our first thought upon learning that the California State Supreme Court had struck down laws limiting same-sex marriage was of the wedding invitations that would soon be winging their way to our mailbox....

>Um. Pornography is in focus?

>A twist on an old joke has cropped up around CineKink, surfacing more frequently around festival submission time: "What's the difference between art and pornography?""Pornography arrives with its 2257 compliance properly identified."Bah dump bump. Anyway...

>A fight to the finish

>The fifteenth and final New York Underground Film Festival kicked off last night and continues through April 8th at Anthology Film Archives.In a comprehensive profile on indieWire about the changing landscape of underground festivals in the US, organizers point to new distribution technologies that make...

>Yay, um… Fox?

>Fox Television is standing firm (sorry) in the face of a $91,000 fine thrust (yep!) upon it by the Federal Communications Commission for a single episode of its reality series, Married by America. Despite Fox's argument that the material in question was not...

>Delayed gratification: Sex & SxSWing!

>Going from CineKink to SXSW to Dark Odyssey has been a bit of a gauntlet - a gauntlet of pleasure, to be sure, but now that we're at the end of it, our body, sensing a respite, seems to be flirting heavily with what is...