TheArchive: Reviewing the Rare, Retro, and Restored

Pride Month is a time to celebrate love, identity, and everything that makes the LGBTQ+ community so diverse and vibrant. Over the years, we’ve seen some real progress in how queer stories are told in film, and that visibility means more than just entertainment. It creates understanding, empathy, and lets people in the community know they’re not alone. For a long time, LGBTQ+ characters in movies weren’t given the spotlight. Often, queer people were side characters, comedic relief, or figures who experience tragedy who don’t make it to the end of the movie. But luckily, things are changing for the better. More films are showing queer people as the full, complex humans whose sexual identity and gender identity are just a part of who they are, but not their entire being. Now, we’re seeing more films where queer characters are falling in love, fighting back, cracking jokes, messing up, and growing. And it’s about time. The film Alto , for example, is a super fun LGBTQ+ rom-com with a m...

This Pride Month we've gone through TheArchive to curate a streaming playlist of LGBTQ content that should take you through June and beyond. Two men with AIDS develop a close friendship while roommates at a residence for people living with the disease. One man is a heterosexual ex-con, and the other is a homosexual educated professional. Roommates stars  Elizabeth Peña,  Randy Quaid and Eric Stoltz. In  Alto , Francesca “Frankie” Del Vecchio (Diana DeGarmo) is adamant about many things in life. Headstrong and passionate, she loves her family, her band, and her fiancé; but disagrees with all of them about one thing: "Mob Hit" a TV show symbolizes the fetishizing of Mafia culture that to Frankie obscures all the more important aspects of the Italian American culture she longs to feed her soul.  But Frankie’s abhorrence of–and her sister Heather’s attraction to–Mob culture remain symbolic, that is until Frankie opens the trunk of a rental car and finds her world turn...

2021 YEAR IN REVIEW The Things You Watched in 2021 Every streamer has that "list" of the most watched, the most streamed, the most binged. Well we do too.  So here's the most watched movies and series on TheArchive that somehow made it onto your screens between Netflix, HBOMax, Disney+, Hulu and what is that one the kids are watching....TikTok? By  TheArchive Staff     Dec 26, 2021, 5:50am EST All sharing options How great a year has it been for television and film? Squid Game, Succession, Sex/Life, Station Eleven . And that's just stuff with the letter S. And then there's the C's. Curb, Cobra Kai, and... Cowboy Bebop . Oh wait, scratch that last one.  Or if you don't want to take our word for it, just read  The Ringer ’s lists of best  shows  and  movies  of 2021. But before you do check out the most watched on TheArchive to see how it measures up to your list. The Series Binge From Cicely Tyson's award winning performance as Harriet...