Ever notice that every blockbuster movie has the same fundamental pieces? A hero, a journey, some conflicts to muck it all up, a reward, and the hero returning home and everybody applauding his or...

Signal, Wyoming—1963 to 1983Why, Oming?Wyoming is known as the "Equality State," even though it proved itself to be an unfriendly place for homosexuals in 1998, when Matthew Shepard was beaten to...

Brokeback Mountain alternates between the private lives of our two cowboys, Jack Twist and Ennis Del Mar. The movie opens with the two men together, but they soon split up, and we alternate between...

Western; Romance; DramaBrokeback Mountain has all the hallmarks of a classic western—cowboys, ropin' cattle, ridin' bulls, and campin' in the great outdoors. But it diverts from the classic weste...

Imagine a scene: you had a delicious Cinnamon Roll Frappuccino on a romantic first date with the love of your life…before he strung you around for twenty years and forced you to realize that he c...

Brokeback Mountain should be renamed Heartbroke Mountain after its heart wrenching ending. Jack realizes that he and Ennis will never be together, because Ennis is too afraid to live openly. Later,...

RBrokeback Mountain has frank depictions of sex, including brief nudity of people from both sexes, although for what was known as the "gay cowboy" movie, it has more scenes of heterosexual sex than...