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28 October 2009 3:52 AM, PDT | MTV Music News | See recent MTV Music News news »

Let the Cure, Korn and Nine Inch Nails give you nightmares this holiday, in Bigger Than the Sound.

By James Montgomery

The Cure's Robert Smith

Photo: Michael Tran/FilmMagic

If you're like me, you'll probably be spending Halloween hiding in your closet from pagans (seriously, have you ever seen the Nic Cage version of "The Wicker Man"?!?) and the day after Halloween cleaning up the eggs those pagans decided to throw at your house.

Even without the egg-tossing polytheists, Halloween is totally terrifying. The apples stuffed with razorblades, the candy corn, the sexy Ghostbusters — it's like every childhood trauma rolled into one miserable, macabre holiday. And while, in previous years, I'd spend the night quaking in my Snuggie, this Halloween is gonna be different. Rather than hide from my fears, I've decided to embrace them (my mom says it's Ok).

So to thoroughly up the spooky, I've created a list »

19 April 2009 2:49 PM, PDT | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »

Oh, it does me good to say this:  Toshiaki Toyoda is back behind a camera, where he belongs.  In September of 2005 the director of Blue Spring and 9 Souls was on the cusp of releasing The Hanging Garden while prepping a planned biker gang film when a drug arrest put his career into exile - partially self imposed, partially governmental.  He’s maintained a meticulously low profile since then but word is out that he’s back with a new film scheduled to be released in the fall.

Yomigaeri no Chi was shot in July, an adaptation of a legend about a kabuki singer who travels to a holy land after nearly dying from a poisoning.  The casting of drummer Tatsuya Nakamura in the lead makes me think that Toyoda will be putting his own spin on things but - as he proved with The Hanging Garden - Toyoda is also »

- Todd Brown

10 March 2009 5:38 PM, PDT | AfterElton.com | See recent AfterElton.com news »

Have a question about gay male entertainment? Ask the Monkey! (Please include your city and state and/or country.)

Q: What do you think about this whole “gay face” mini-meme? – Michael

A: The Flying Monkey just heard about it  and I’m already tired of it.

While studies show there is no difference in the actual physical facial characteristics of gay versus straight men, other studies suggest some gay men might hold their faces, especially in the mouth area, in such a way that makes other people more likely to identify them as gay.

And this is news why? We all know there are physical and verbal stereotypes – mannerisms and such that are associated with gayness. We also know that sometimes the stereotypes are right – some gay people do conform to them – and sometimes they’re wrong: many gay people don’t conform to them, and some straight people who do. »

- dennis

3 articles from 2009