Welcome to Screen Gems, our weekend dive into queer and queer-adjacent titles of the past that deserve a watch or a re-watch.Who would have predicted that a generation of gay kids raised on Atari, Nintendo and all their future iterations would have grown up to form a full-on movement: gaymers?Anyone familiar with The Wizard, openly gay director Todd Holland’s 1989 adventure movie shouldn’t be all that surprised.
When it hit theatres more than 30 years ago, critics savaged the film as nothing more than a feature-length commercial for Nintendo products and Universal Studios.
They weren’t wrong: the movie dwells on Nintendo, ignoring all other consoles. The final act of the movie also takes place in Universal Studios Hollywood, making use of.