Hello and welcome back to Cinema Very Gay, Season 2! Jake and Kevin are back with some spicy takes about one of this summer's biggest queer hits, Fire Island (dir. Andrew Ahn 2022). Writer Joel Kim Booster has broken new cinematic rom-com ground by being the first to make a modern adaptation of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice...but this time, IT'S GAY. We follow the follies and faux-pas of Noah, played by Joel Kim Booster himself, and his queer Bennett counterparts. While trying to find a suitable partner for his friend Howie, played by Bowen Yang, Noah meets his own Mr. Darcy, the haughty and mysterious Will. With so much riding on the successful crafting of the adaptation, there is much to yearn for in the subject matter Fire Island tries to tackle. There are still plenty of laughs to be found and lots of great performances to latch onto, including Conrad Ricamora and Margaret Cho. Does Fire Island (film) actually hate Fire Island (place)? Does Noah have any redeeming qualities? Will Jake or Kevin ever get invited to a beachfront Fire Island party? This and more on our first episode of Season 2! You set, girl!
We're also back with a brand spanking new miniseries that we're certain no other podcasters or film reviewers have thought to talk about before- queer-coding in Disney villains! Growing up in the Disney renaissance gave us fond memories of campy, sarcastic, and fabulous DIVAS of Disney villainy, so we're taking a prance down memory lane to catch up with the villains our young gay selves fell in love with. Why not start at the very beginning? The very first animated Disney classic, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1939), certainly goes down as a landmark achievement in filmmaking, but the Evil Queen SLAYS the HOUSE down mawmaw yes work as a campy iconic first villain. Who's the fairest of them all? CINEMA VERY GAY, HONEY.
