Cherry Pop

By: BozNola

The movie is over the top campy. When traffic is held up by a grotesque wreck we stop and look at it.

The wreck are DragQueens who are looking for fame at a gay bar. One is suicidal.

I live in New Orleans and Cherry Pop reminds me of a gay bar in the quarter where it is a mirror to the movie.

Queens who are Perfectly Wretched and Wrecked.

By: Amos Lassen

"Cherry Pop"

One Crazy Night

Amos Lassen

One crazy night in the life of a small local bar's drag show is what "Cherry Pop" is all about. We meet a newcomer who struggles with being the outcast on his first night, a legend coming to terms with life after her last night in drag and about a bunch of back-stabbing queens with their own problems who just plain can't stand each other.

We also see stories of some of the people who come into the bar. Chaos reigns here. There is another little twist here- a love story about a boy who falls in love with a girl, who accepts the boy for who he is even if he has a deep secret desire to dress like a woman and perform.

Assad Yacoub directed this film that centers on drag queens. Not only is the plot unconventional but it also has a revolutionary view point to bring to audiences. The film stars such drag queens as Detox, Latrice Royale, Bob the Drag Queen, Misty Violet, Mayhem Miller and Lars Berge as The Cherry.



We see claws come out and feathers are sequins fly as we watch a challenge to traditional gender roles and societal constructs of sexuality (in a non-threatening and comical way). There is lots of humor and lots of wigs as we understand the message of loving who are.