December 27, 2024
Big Gay Movie Roundup: 13 Notable Films from 2024
Kilian Melloy READ TIME: 16 MIN.
Glitter & Doom
Married couple and filmmaking partners Cory Krueckeberg and Tom Gustafson found a measure of mainstream success with 2008's "Were the World Mine," and made waves with queer audiences with films like "Mariachi Gringo" (2012) and "Getting Go, The Go Doc Project" (2013). This year they unleashed their frothiest concoction yet, "Glitter & Doom." The former (Alex Diaz) is an aspiring circus performer pushing back against the career expectations imposed on him by his corporate leader mom (Ming-Na, in an eyepatch); the latter (Alan Cammish) is an emo-tinged musician with a British accent who's scraping by while dealing with his substance-abusing ex-con mother. Like all rom-coms, this one combines love, desire, conflict, and pain to create a feel-good journey, but with a big difference: This trip reinvents some classic queer songs.
A jukebox musical drawn entirely from the catalogue of queer sister act The Indigo Girls, "Glitter & Doom" is a candy-colored rom-com with a fantastical edge. If Julio Torres and David Lynch had a love child, and that love child decided to make their own movie along the lines of "Across the Universe," this might well be the result.
"Glitter& Doom" is available on VOD platforms. Read the EDGE interview with Corey Krueckeberg and Tom Gustafson.
Kilian Melloy serves as EDGE Media Network's Associate Arts Editor and Staff Contributor. His professional memberships include the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association, the Boston Online Film Critics Association, The Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association, and the Boston Theater Critics Association's Elliot Norton Awards Committee.
