BGM: Bad Gay Movies = Bitchy Gay Men

It was time to have Bill Clarke back on the show, and the perfect choice for him was a film set in his favourite city in the world. Daniel, Bil and Bill go Back to Berlin with Alex & Leo by Yuri Garate.   Email: badgaymovies2013@gmail.com Photo by Michael Sheffer Theme by The Chronos Band

We continue our celebration of Token Straight Man month with the return of Phoevo, and we were so excited to have him back that we found him a movie with as many boobs as we could find. Join Bil, Daniel and Phoevo as they discuss 4 Nights In The Hamptons by Michael Knowles.   Email: badgaymovies2013@gmail.com Photo by Michael Sheffer Theme by The Chronos Band

Imagine if Love Actually was made with only 6 people and none of them spoke in a way you recognized, and you have the hit rom-com Shared Rooms! Michael Soulard returns to the show, and he and Bil Antoniou discuss this modern classic.   Email: badgaymovies2013@gmail.com Photo by Michael Sheffer Theme by The Chronos Band

It’s Token Straight Man month and Bil couldn’t be more excited to have his fellow podcaster and dear friend Marco Timpano, host of The Insomnia Project, on the show to Italian-splain the 2018 comedy My Big Gay Italian Wedding by Alessandro Genovesi.   Email: badgaymovies2013@gmail.com Photo by Michael Sheffer Theme by The Chronos Band https://creators.spotify.com/pod/dashboard/episodes?currentPage...

It’s another example of Gay Vs God, but the higher power in this case is the magnificent Judith Light. Bil and Daniel watch Chad Allen in Save Me and you’re going to want to know what they think.   Email: badgaymovies2013@gmail.com Photo by Michael Sheffer Theme by The Chronos Band

The first time we at BGM ever felt like real somebodies was when actor and star extraordinaire Mark Cirillo appeared on the show to take a drubbing for his magnificent career, and we couldn’t be more excited to have him back! Mark joined us to celebrate the 10 year anniversary of The Last Straight Man by Mark Bessenger. Email: badgaymovies2013@gmail.com Photo by Michael Sheffer Theme by The Chrono...

If you follow the exquisite actor and singer James Gibson-Bray on the socials, you’ll know that there’s no one better suited to a discussion of the TV movie that brought Ann-Margret and Julie Andrews to talk about the most serious health crisis of the 1980s. Email: badgaymovies2013@gmail.com Photo by Michael Sheffer Theme by The Chronos Band

Comedian extraordinaire Jonathan Duffy joins Bil and Daniel to talk about a real doozy of a Covid project, the 2022 drama Borrowed.   Email: badgaymovies2013@gmail.com Photo by Michael Sheffer Theme by The Chronos Band

New episode! If you’re searching the universe for rock music to take to your planet, it stands to reason that you come to a town where Pia Zadora is dancing to New Wave. Anders Yates returns to BGM’s delight to talk with Bil about the cult classic (?) VOYAGE OF THE ROCK ALIENS!   Email: badgaymovies2013@gmail.com Photo by Michael Sheffer Theme by The Chronos Band

We got our dear friend Matthew Harris back on the show and he wanted to get back in the loop with the one and only Bianca Del Rio! Bil, Daniel and Matthew watch Hurricane Bianca: From Russia With Hate and compare it to the original classic.   Email: badgaymovies2013@gmail.com Photo by Michael Sheffer Theme by The Chronos Band

Everyone knows that the biggest threat to the music industry is when your cassette tapes are boxed up and sent to Japan. We didn’t understand the plot of Maid For Each Other, but we were happy to reminisce on its delights.   Email: badgaymovies2013@gmail.com Photo by Michael Sheffer Theme by The Chronos Band

An Oscar-winning director, a stacked cast and a runaway hit of a debut novel…what could go wrong? Everything! Glenn Close plays wise old maid to a breathy, teenaged forty year-old Meryl in The House of the Spirits and we couldn’t talk about it without the help of the one and only Mr. Mark O’Donovan (aka Dublin Zoetrope). Email: badgaymovies2013@gmail.com Photo by Michael Sheffer Theme by The Chron...

Betteheads will want to hear us give the Divine Miss M her due for surviving one of the biggest disasters of the eighties, Jinxed! Bil had the pleasure of sitting down with the hosts of the Fish Jelly podcast, Joseph Robinson and Nicholas Bell, to get their reactions to finally seeing the film directed by the legendary Don Siegel. Email: badgaymovies2013@gmail.com Photo by Michael Sheffer Theme by...

THE 8TH ANNUAL OSCAR EPISODE IS HERE! Our highly anticipated 90 minute discussion of Best Supporting Actress followed by a quick nod to the rest is once again a delight of a good time thanks to the generous appearance of the one and only Glenn Sumi, the notable Toronto journalist who joins Bil and Daniel to talk about this year's Oscar nominees. Email: badgaymovies2013@gmail.com Photo by Micha...

You all love it when Ryan G. Hinds appears on the podcast, but do you think he’ll ever do it again after Bil screams at him about Saltburn? Join Bil, Michael, Ryan and Gregory Rosebrugh as they talk about Emerald Fennell’s eyebrow-raising sophomore effort.   Email: badgaymovies2013@gmail.com Photo by Michael Sheffer Theme by The Chronos Band

It’s always such a thrill when someone who worked on a BGM agrees to talk about it on BGM!! This week, the very gracious author and filmmaker Mike Justice joined Bil to talk about Birthday Cake, on which he was an editor, to discuss the film as well as his own incredible career.   Email: badgaymovies2013@gmail.com Photo by Michael Sheffer Theme by The Chronos Band

Bil had never seen Mannequin before, and was so grateful that Ryan Porter returned to the show to make him watch it! Email: badgaymovies2013@gmail.com Photo by Michael Sheffer Theme by The Chronos Band

New episode! There are few guests we love having on more than Gregory Rosebrugh, and since he spends his free time playing rugby we figured he would be the expert witness to help Bil understand Matt Carter’s In From The Side.   Email: badgaymovies2013@gmail.com Photo by Michael Sheffer Theme by The Chronos Band

New episode! Missed Connections, Natural Order and the Canada Reads selection Fruit author Brian Francis joins Bil and Daniel to revisit a movie we all remember loving twenty years ago, The Broken Hearts Club by Greg Berlanti. Do we still love it? Listen and find out!   Email: badgaymovies2013@gmail.com Photo by Michael Sheffer Theme by The Chronos Band

PJ Hogan and Rupert Everett coming off the success of My Best Friend’s Wedding means whatever they do next has to be a classic, right? Author Scott Mainprize, whose new book The First Few Feet in a World of Wolves comes out on November 21, joins Bil to talk about the 2002 (but unreleased in America until 2003) strange case of Unconditional Love. Email: badgaymovies2013@gmail.com Photo by Michael S...

New episode! There’s always gotta be at least one Gays Vs. God episode every year on BGM, and on this year’s entry we have the pleasure of welcoming back guest host and the award-winning playwright of The Seat Next To The King Steven Elliott Jackson to talk about The Revival by Jennifer Gerber. Email: badgaymovies2013@gmail.com Photo by Michael Sheffer Theme by The Chronos Band

New episode! Vilified when it was released, resurrected as a misunderstood classic by no less than the likes of Rian Johnson and Karina Longworth in more recent years, and a film that features a subject dear to Bil and Daniel’s hearts: the one and only Madeline Kahn. We watched At Long Last Love and have […]

It’s always a pleasure to have brilliant film scholar Gregory Rosebrugh on the show, and this time Bil and Daniel talk to him about the highs and lows of the 2015 Canadian drama Closet Monster by Stephen Dunn.   Email: badgaymovies2013@gmail.com Photo by Michael Sheffer Theme by The Chronos Band

Shakespeare, sister! Bil hadn’t seen Were The World Mine since it premiered at Inside Out many enchanted moons ago and was sure it would still please him when his special returning guest Michael Lyons suggested it as a topic of conversation for BGM. Does it hold up? Find out by listening in!   Email: badgaymovies2013@gmail.com Photo by Michael Sheffer Theme by The Chronos Band

Every good hook-up in the woods should start with a tarot card reading, or at least that’s what Bil, Daniel and Michael decided when they reunited to talk about Devil’s Path, which returns them to the universe of the great Matthew Montgomery.   Email: badgaymovies2013@gmail.com Photo by Michael Sheffer Theme by The Chronos Band