You Hurt My Feelings (2023) Film Review
Give me a break! Holofcener’s script is weak, as is her direction, so you cannot completely blame Louis-Dreyfus and Menzies for this calamity.
Read Moreby Patrick | Jun 3, 2023 | Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, New Releases
Give me a break! Holofcener’s script is weak, as is her direction, so you cannot completely blame Louis-Dreyfus and Menzies for this calamity.
Read Moreby Patrick | May 31, 2023 | Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Historic Events, New Releases
No one, not even an evil, self-obsessed, Nazi would be so foolish as to believe that you can become fluent in another language by just learning words.
Read Moreby Patrick | May 22, 2023 | Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, New Releases
If there is a weakness in the film, it is Borghi’s subservient presence to Marinelli. This changes dramatically n the film’s final sequence…
Read Moreby Patrick | May 21, 2023 | Comedy, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Historic Events, Most Popular, New Releases
Balsillie is the yin to Lazaridis” yang. Baruchel and Howerton complement one another at every turn as Balsillie has eyes for the Pittsburgh Steelers!
Read Moreby Patrick | May 16, 2023 | Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Mystery, New Releases, Queer Film/TV
Pallaoro is blessed with two actresses who are able to convey oceans of emotion with their eyes and Lysette, a real-life trans actress, is wonderful.
Read Moreby Patrick | May 16, 2023 | Apple TV+, Documentary, Film Reviews, Genres, New Releases, TV / Streaming
The immaculate comedic timing is still there, only now it unfolds at a slower pace, as Michael’s brain attempts to reach the rest of his body.
Read Moreby Patrick | May 16, 2023 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, New Releases, Queer Film/TV, Romance, TV / Streaming
Laporte is tremendous in portraying a complex character who appears to have an “escape” but really doesn’t. It’s a heartbreaking performance.
Read Moreby Patrick | May 14, 2023 | Apple TV+, Comedy, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Horror, New Releases, Science Fiction, Thriller, TV / Streaming
If you can take moments of extreme gore and disfigurement – it succeeds more as a horror movie than as a piece of social satire – you could do worse.
Read Moreby Patrick | May 9, 2023 | Comedy, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, New Releases
We also discover, in a beautifully acted scene by McAdams, who steals the picture, that Barbara is estranged from her devoutly Christian parents.
Read Moreby Patrick | Apr 30, 2023 | Action, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Historic Events, New Releases
Matching Gyllenhaal, Salim gives a supremely dignified yet deeply moving performance that is worthy of a Best Supporting Actor nomination.
Read Moreby Patrick | Apr 14, 2023 | Drama, Epic, Film Reviews, Horror, Mystery, New Releases, Thriller
Aster’s genius is hiding things from the viewer in clever ways. “Beau is Afraid” has the opposite effect. It is cluttered with too many plotlines.
Read Moreby Patrick | Apr 7, 2023 | Drama, Film Reviews, Historic Events, New Releases
The major reason to see “Air” is Matt Damon who, as in previous movies, is not afraid to put on weight to play the doughy Vaccaro.
Read Moreby Patrick | Apr 17, 2023 | Drama, Film Reviews, New Releases
McInerny is fine in the lead. The problem is that her character is utterly vacuous. The director Jamie Dack has both style and confidence.
Read Moreby Patrick | Jan 14, 2021 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Archival Posts, Documentary, Film Reviews, Genres, My Favorites, Pauline Kael, Queer Film/TV, TV / Streaming
The greatest movie critic of her generation. Pauline wrote the most incisive and respectful response. It was a gorgeous review of “Blade Runner”…
Read Moreby Patrick | Oct 21, 2022 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Archival Posts, Comedy, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, HBO Max, Historic Events, Hulu, TV / Streaming
Condon is breathtakingly good, capturing every scene she’s in with a mixture of common sense and sadness, but always with a drollness lurking in the background.
Read Moreby Patrick | Jan 3, 2023 | Archival Posts, Drama, Film Reviews, Historic Events, Masterpieces, My Favorites, Uncategorized
As for Judy Davis she gives what is probably her most outstanding performance, which means it’s one of the greatest performances ever captured on film
Read Moreby Patrick | Dec 28, 2021 | Action, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Archival Posts, Drama, Epic, Gangster, Genres, Historic Events, Queer Film/TV
I left “Flee” with that “floating-on-air feeling” that you get after seeing something special. After seeing a masterpiece.
Read Moreby Patrick | Dec 27, 2021 | Archival Posts, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Netflix
Memories of Fellini and the Taviani Brothers at their peak. It’s his “Amarcord” (I remember). It’s also his “La Dolce Vita.”
Read Moreby Patrick | Jan 9, 2022 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Archival Posts, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Historic Events, Mystery, Queer Film/TV, Thriller
Now, ” Live Flesh” has dropped to the number two position. “Parallel Mothers” is the new movie at the top of my treasured Almodóvar catalog.
Read Moreby Patrick | Dec 13, 2021 | Action, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Drama, Film Reviews, Gangster, Genres, Most Popular, Musicals, Romance
West Side Story is Spielberg’s Triumph! Of course, it is Anita who is the real star of the movie and Ariana DeBose is astonishing.
Read Moreby Patrick | Dec 27, 2021 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Archival Posts, Drama, Film Reviews, Historic Events, Hulu
Aida knows the horrific fate that awaits her husband and two sons if they are found and, for two hours, you watch as she frantically tries to get them out.
Read Moreby Patrick | Jul 28, 2022 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Archival Posts, Horror, Masterpieces, Mystery, Science Fiction, Thriller
Guys with erect penises walking downward into a transparent ooze, confused, as Scarlett walks on another level above them.
Read Moreby Patrick | Jul 27, 2022 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Archival Posts, Drama, Film Reviews, Horror, Masterpieces, Mystery, Science Fiction, Thriller
It boasts a tremendous performance by Michael Shannon as a quiet man, raising a family, who has horrific nightmares and daytime visions of a meteorological disturbance followed by a feeling that we (the Earth) are being visited by something alien.
Read Moreby Patrick | Jan 3, 2023 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Archival Posts, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, TV / Streaming
“Aftersun” is unforgettable movie. Proustian, in that it is both a remembrance of things past and a search of lost time, it’s one of the best films of 2022.
Read Moreby Patrick | Nov 6, 2022 | Apple TV+, Archival Posts, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Historic Events, Queer Film/TV, Romance, TV / Streaming
And Henry gives a tour de force performance that matches his spine-tingling monologue in “If Beale Street Could Talk”. Like Lawrence he is one of the all-time greats.
Read Moreby Patrick | Apr 2, 2023 | Archival Posts, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Queer Film/TV, Queer Film/TV
In the opening 45 minutes of “Close”, Belgian director Lukas Dhont captures an intimacy that is extraordinary in its delicacy.
Read Moreby Patrick | Aug 23, 2022 | Action, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Archival Posts, Drama, Film Reviews, Gangster, Genres, Thriller, TV / Streaming
Plaza’s performance is something to behold. All of that nervous energy is now bursting out in a performance that is always true and believable.
Read Moreby Patrick | May 14, 2022 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Archival Posts, Drama, Film Reviews
The weeks pass and Anne begins to “show'”. Time is running out. Any attempt at a back street abortion is becoming increasingly dangerous.
Read Moreby Patrick | Jan 6, 2022 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Archival Posts, Drama, Film Reviews, Mystery, Road Movie
As Yusuke drives into Hiroshima, the opening credits’ role forty minutes into the film. We realize that what we have seen so far is just a prelude to the main story.
Read Moreby Patrick | Jan 14, 2022 | Action, Archival Posts, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Mystery, Netflix, Queer Film/TV, Western
“The Power of the Dog” is one of the best films of 2021. Campion directs with an expert hand assisted by Ari Wegner’s cinematography and Jonny Greenwood’s memorable score.
Read Moreby Patrick | Jan 3, 2022 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Archival Posts, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Historic Events
Stewart is simply amazing in the role channeling all that star power into a Diana, you feel you know instantly.
Read Moreby Patrick | Feb 3, 2022 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Archival Posts, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Romance, TV / Streaming
Time stands still as Julie leaves Aksel, frozen in the kitchen as he pours her a cup of coffee, and runs through the streets of daytime Oslo.
Read Moreby Patrick | Aug 21, 2022 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Archival Posts, Comedy, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Horror, Mystery, Queer Film/TV, Thriller, TV / Streaming
Beautifully Queer friendly, the relationship between Bee (Maria Bakalova) and Sophiie (Amanda Stenberg) is the emotional center of the movie.
Read Moreby Patrick | Mar 17, 2023 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Archival Posts, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres
D’Ambrose direction is reminiscent of John Cassavetes. He places his camera and lets the action unfold as his actors enter and exit the scene.
Read Moreby Patrick | Dec 17, 2022 | Archival Posts, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Historic Events, Netflix, Romance, TV / Streaming
Superb performances by Emma Corrin and Jack O’Connell transform this adaptation into a film of great beauty and, yes, sensuality.
Read Moreby Patrick | Jan 3, 2023 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Archival Posts, Comedy, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Guild Awards, HBO Max, Horror, Hulu, Thriller, TV / Streaming, WGA
There is a fantastic faceoff between Fiennes and a mysterious guest who was not invited. She is played by the extraordinary Anna Taylor-Joy
Read Moreby Patrick | May 1, 2022 | Action, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Archival Posts, Drama, Epic, Film Reviews
The directors are extremely cine-literate. However, their references never seemed forced and I basked in their cinematic vision.
Read Moreby Patrick | May 9, 2022 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Archival Posts, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Queer Film/TV, Romance
Meise directs what must be some of the most beautiful and heartfelt scenes ever captured on film between two men in love.
Read Moreby Patrick | Jan 7, 2022 | Archival Posts, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Netflix, Queer Film/TV
You cannot take your eyes off Ruth Negga’s Claire, a Black woman who can pass for White in New York in 1929.
Read Moreby Patrick | Dec 27, 2021 | Archival Posts, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Historic Events, Netflix, Queer Film/TV
Ignacio de la Torre was the son in law of Mexico’s president for life and dictator Porfirio Díaz’s. But he was leading a double life with his lover Evaristo.
Read Moreby Patrick | Dec 27, 2021 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Archival Posts, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Hulu, Mystery, Romance
Christian Petzold’s direction is so seductive, and the two leads are so effective, that you fall easily for “Undine’s” charms.
Read Moreby Patrick | Oct 23, 2022 | Apple TV+, Archival Posts, Comedy, Drama, Film Reviews, My Favorites, Queer Film/TV, Romance, TV / Streaming, Under Appreciated
Aamu Milonoff is exceptionally good, giving a beautifully grounded yet magical performance. The kind that makes you sit up and take notice.
Read Moreby Patrick | Jan 3, 2023 | Action, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Archival Posts, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Thriller, TV / Streaming
But the movie belongs to Newton who gives the best performance of her career here. We are completely in her spell.
Read Moreby Patrick | Nov 26, 2022 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Archival Posts, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Queer Film/TV, TV / Streaming
The revelation is Pope. Those big, beautiful, expressive eyes speak volumes and question volumes. A gay man, you can feel his star presence.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 28, 2022 | Archival Posts, Comedy, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Road Movie, Under Appreciated
Doug Stanhope is “The Road Dog” in Greg Glienna’s Salute to Stand-Up. Winner of the Best Film Award at the Hollywood Reel Indie Film Festival.
Read Moreby Patrick | Oct 11, 2022 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Archival Posts, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Historic Events, TV / Streaming
The 2023 Best Actress Oscar Goes To…Danielle Deadwyler in Till. And as she reaches the volta of her magnificent speech she does something extraordinary…
Read Moreby Patrick | Nov 4, 2022 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Archival Posts, Film Reviews, Genres, Horror, Thriller, TV / Streaming
A marvelous performance by Maika Monroe, who shares with her namesake a beauty and star quality that gives any movie in which she appears a touch of class.
Read Moreby Patrick | Dec 27, 2021 | Action, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Archival Posts, Drama, Epic, Fantasy, Film Reviews, Mystery
David Lowery’s enthralling “The Green Knight”. Alicia Vikander does double duty as a peasant girl, and the mistress of a mysterious household.
Read Moreby Patrick | Nov 23, 2021 | Archival Posts, Comedy, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Musicals, Netflix, Queer Film/TV
Although we know the eventual outcome, there is no great tragedy awaiting us at the end of the movie. In fact, it is a celebration of life.
Read Moreby Patrick | Dec 26, 2021 | Action, Amazon Prime Video, Archival Posts, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Horror, Mystery, TV / Streaming
“The Tragedy of Macbeth” is filled with brilliant touches. The major reason to see this movie is Kathryn Hunter who plays all three witches.
Read Moreby Patrick | Dec 27, 2021 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Archival Posts, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Historic Events
Andrei Konchalovsky’s Searing Indictment of a little-known Khrushchev Era Massacre is his best work in years.
Read Moreby Patrick | Jun 19, 2022 | Archival Posts, Comedy, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Hulu, TV / Streaming
Thompson steals the movie, running through a gamut of emotions from anger, fear, and sadness to moments of sheer bliss.
Read Moreby Patrick | Apr 29, 2022 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Archival Posts, Drama, Film Reviews, Road Movie
The film begins with one of the most memorable opening scenes in recent memory. It’s a glorious and inventive piece of true cinema magic.
Read Moreby Patrick | Dec 29, 2022 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Archival Posts, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Guild Awards, Queer Film/TV, SAG, TV / Streaming
As Charlie, an overweight teacher, Brendan Fraser gives a very sweet and appealing performance in director Darren Aronofsky’s “The Whale”.
Read Moreby Patrick | Dec 29, 2021 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Archival Posts, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, TV / Streaming
Collins and Parker have a wonderful rapport based on their shared love of horses, and there might be something deeper between them.
Read Moreby Patrick | Apr 2, 2023 | Archival Posts, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres
Director Davy Chou likes to have his main character bottle up their emotions and then express these feelings in a couple of spectacular dance sequences.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 27, 2022 | Archival Posts, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Historic Events, Netflix, Pauline Kael, TV / Streaming
Immersing herself completely in the role of Norma Jean/Marilyn Monroe, Ana de Armas is sensational. And exhausting!
Read Moreby Patrick | Mar 25, 2022 | Action, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Archival Posts, Drama, Film Reviews, Gangster, Most Popular
The first half of the film is by far the most nuanced. It relies on Rylance’s near-great, subtle performance to convey the smallest details.
Read Moreby Patrick | Oct 8, 2022 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Archival Posts, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Queer Film/TV, Thriller, TV / Streaming
However, no one seems to have stopped and thought about the age difference between these two maestros. By my calculations, Lenny would have been teaching Lydia when she was five years old!
Read Moreby Patrick | Jan 1, 2023 | Archival Posts, Comedy, Drama, Epic, Film Reviews, Genres, Mystery, Netflix, Road Movie, Science Fiction, TV / Streaming
Our savior is Driver, who, against all odds, manages to give another really good performance in inhospitable settings.
Read Moreby Patrick | Jan 13, 2022 | Apple TV+, Archival Posts, Drama, Film Reviews
There is Ruby/Emilia’s gorgeous voice. Every time she sings it’s a treat. And you’re willing to overlook a lot of small faults when she soars.
Read Moreby Patrick | Apr 9, 2022 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Archival Posts, Comedy, Drama, Film Reviews, HBO Max, Queer Film/TV, TV / Streaming
Finally, a toast, amid all this great food, to four extraordinarily talented actresses: Sennott, Draper, Gordon, and Argon.
Read Moreby Patrick | Feb 19, 2021 | Archival Posts, Comedy, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Historic Events, Musicals, Netflix, Queer Film/TV, Romance, TV / Streaming
“Husavik” stands apart with its soaring melody and heartfelt lyrics. The stunning vocal is by Molly Sanden, who sings like her life depended on it.
Read Moreby Patrick | Dec 27, 2021 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Archival Posts, Comedy, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres
Jess Wexler and Joshua Leonard have such a natural chemistry that I assumed that they were a couple in real-life.
Read Moreby Patrick | Mar 24, 2023 | Archival Posts, Drama, Film Reviews, Gangster, Genres, Mystery, Thriller
A premise that requires a great actor, a witty script, and some very innovative direction. Dafoe is marvelous.
Read Moreby Patrick | Dec 25, 2022 | Action, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Archival Posts, Comedy, Drama, Epic, Film Reviews, Genres, Historic Events, Horror, TV / Streaming
I had no problem sitting through the movie’s bloated 180-minute running because, through all of this nothingness, five actors manage to make lasting impressions
Read Moreby Patrick | Dec 19, 2022 | Archival Posts, Comedy, Drama, Epic, Film Reviews, Genres, Historic Events, Netflix, TV / Streaming
The result is an exhausting piece of self-indulgent filmmaking filled with moments of greatness with one indelible image after another.
Read Moreby Patrick | Nov 25, 2022 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Archival Posts, Drama, Fantasy, Film Reviews, Horror, Mystery, Queer Film/TV, Road Movie, Romance, TV / Streaming
Eventually it becomes impossible to feel anything for our unhappy couple, not least because Guadagnino keeps shifting the moral and ethical ground rules.
Read Moreby Patrick | Apr 13, 2022 | Action, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Archival Posts, Comedy, Drama, Epic, Fantasy, Film Reviews, Genres, TV / Streaming
Remember Yeoh in “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”? This is a similar tongue-in-cheek, highly physical, yet surprisingly, touching performance.
Read Moreby Patrick | Jan 13, 2021 | Archival Posts, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Netflix
How can an actress who is pushing ninety be the mother of an actress in her late twenties or early thirties? Not impossible, but implausible.
Read Moreby Patrick | Nov 16, 2022 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Archival Posts, Comedy, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Historic Events, TV / Streaming
He films one of his jock tormentors as a blond God-like figure – I swear, it reminded me of Leni Riefenstahl’s “Olympia.”
Read Moreby Patrick | Dec 7, 2021 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Archival Posts, Comedy, Drama, Genres, Historic Events, Queer Film/TV, Romance
“Licorice Pizza” and the gay stereotype. Here is a mincing queen with movements so exaggerated he could have Tourette’s syndrome.
Read Moreby Patrick | Apr 2, 2023 | Archival Posts, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres
The changing face of New York City together with a fierce performance by Teyana Taylor, make this meandering and overlong movie worth catching.
Read Moreby Patrick | Nov 9, 2022 | Archival Posts, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres
This time the dialogue seems forced, Zeller’s direction seems off. What really destroys this movie is the performance of the actor in the title role.
Read Moreby Patrick | Dec 14, 2021 | Action, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Archival Posts, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, HBO Max, Mystery, Thriller
A Great Cast Cannot Save Director John Lee Hancock’s Sleazy Mixture of Forensics and Violence.
Read Moreby Patrick | Dec 26, 2021 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Archival Posts, Drama, Film Noir, Film Reviews, Gangster, Genres, HBO Max, Hulu, TV / Streaming
Del Toro’s “Nightmare Alley” disappoints. Cate Blanchett’s performance becomes a pastiche and Bradley Cooper sleepwalks through it.
Read Moreby Patrick | Mar 10, 2023 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Archival Posts, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Historic Events, TV / Streaming
The final insult is that we don’t even get to hear the verdict or the sentence. It’s as if Diop was convinced she was innocent and wanted us in her camp.
Read Moreby Patrick | Dec 1, 2022 | Archival Posts, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres
Terrified of standing outside of the groupthink and dreading the Hollywood equivalent of being burnt alive in a Florentine piazza…
Read Moreby Patrick | Dec 2, 2022 | Apple TV+, Archival Posts, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Historic Events, Romance
But O’Connor’s greatest failure is not trusting herself to deliver the goods as they were, and she plays with history to her detriment.
Read Moreby Patrick | Dec 28, 2022 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Archival Posts, Drama, Film Reviews, Guild Awards, Historic Events, TV / Streaming, WGA
So, my advice is to watch this movie on your iPhone and fast-forward through everything except Morton and Ehle.
Read Moreby Patrick | Dec 18, 2022 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Archival Posts, Comedy, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, TV / Streaming
Ostlund’s trite and vulgar satire on the heartlessness of the monied classes is the most overhyped film of the year.
Read Moreby Patrick | Dec 2, 2021 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Archival Posts, Comedy, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, TV / Streaming
“The French Dispatch” is the anthesis of cinema. The boredom felt by the viewer is amplified by the feeling that ennui was the desired effect!
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 5, 2022 | 70s | 80s | 90s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Drama, Gangster, Queer Film/TV
There will always be an argument as to who was the real auteur behind the camera.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 5, 2022 | 70s | 80s | 90s, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, My Favorites, Queer Film/TV, TV / Streaming, Under Appreciated, YouTube
Starring a luminous Carrie Snodgress, the last movie that director Frank Perry and his screenwriter wife Eleanor made together is their best.
Read Moreby Patrick | Oct 23, 2022 | 70s | 80s | 90s, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Queer Film/TV, Romance
Future gay activist Larry Kramer’s adaptation of D.H Lawrence’s 1920 novel was an enormous critical and commercial success earning four Oscar Nominations:
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 21, 2021 | 70s | 80s | 90s, Action, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Comedy, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, My Favorites, Queer Film/TV, Under Appreciated, Western
Hume Cronyn and John Randolph are our happy and well-adjusted gay couple. Yes, they fight and bicker all the time. However, they are clearly madly in love with each other.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 5, 2022 | 70s | 80s | 90s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Comedy, Drama, Queer Film/TV
As we saw in the 2020 remake, Mart Crowley’s play “The Boys in the Band” has stood the test of time beautifully.
Read Moreby Patrick | Apr 27, 2023 | 70s | 80s | 90s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Comedy, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, My Favorites, Mystery, Queer Film/TV, Queer Film/TV, Romance, Thriller, TV / Streaming
Excellent work by Robert Stephens (his best screen performance) and Colin Blakely (Dr. Watson). Geneviève Page gives a gorgeous melancholy performance.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 9, 2022 | 70s | 80s | 90s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Drama, Historic Events, Queer Film/TV
“The Garden of the Finzi Continis” is based on the semi-autobiographical novel by gay Italian writer Giorgio Bassani who is played in the film by Helmut Berger.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 5, 2022 | 70s | 80s | 90s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Drama, Queer Film/TV
Visconti’s best idea was changing Aschenbach’s profession from a writer to a composer opening up the movie to the Mahler Adagietto .
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 9, 2022 | 70s | 80s | 90s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Drama, Queer Film/TV
In “Sunday Bloody Sunday”, Murray Head plays a free-spirited bisexual who is having simultaneous relationships with Glenda Jackson and Peter Finch.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 9, 2022 | 70s | 80s | 90s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Drama, Queer Film/TV
A landmark in both New Queer Cinema and the New German Cinema, Fassbinder’s examination of the dynamics of a lesbian love triangle was shot in der wunderkind’s apartment.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 9, 2022 | 70s | 80s | 90s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Drama, Historic Events, Musicals, Queer Film/TV
Based on the 1966 Broadway musical “Cabaret” by Kander and Ebb which was adapted from Christopher Isherwood’s The Berlin Stories” (1945).
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 9, 2022 | 70s | 80s | 90s, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Queer Film/TV, TV / Streaming, YouTube
And then there Tillie’s other best friend Jimmy, the film’s token gay guy, played by René Auberjonois, who had one of the most memorable names in cinema.
Read Moreby Patrick | Jan 5, 2023 | 70s | 80s | 90s, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Queer Film/TV, TV / Streaming, YouTube
Unfortunately, despite a good performance by Weld, the film only comes alive when she is driving endlessly around LA’s spectacular freeways.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 9, 2022 | 70s | 80s | 90s, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Queer Film/TV, TV / Streaming, YouTube
Rita Walden, played beautifully by Joanne Woodward, in what is probably her best performance is about to go through a midlife crisis.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 9, 2022 | 70s | 80s | 90s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Cinematographers, Drama, My Favorites, Queer Film/TV, Romance
Directed by Jack Clayton, from an adaptation by Francis Ford Coppola, this was the third film version of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Jazz Age masterpiece.
Read Moreby Patrick | May 11, 2021 | 70s | 80s | 90s, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Masterpieces, My Favorites, Queer Film/TV
In “Jeanne Dielman”, a feminist masterpiece, the everyday details of a caring mother contrast with her life as a prostitute.
Read Moreby Patrick | Aug 11, 2022 | 70s | 80s | 90s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Drama, Historic Events, Horror, Masterpieces, My Favorites, Mystery
Weir, who showed, like Hitchcock, that horror can be visited upon us on the brightest and most beautiful of summer days.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 10, 2022 | 70s | 80s | 90s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Comedy, Fantasy, Musicals, Queer Film/TV
It is, of course, a GROUP EXPERIENCE with those inspired zingers going back to the screen, composed by a generation of audience members over the years.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 10, 2022 | 70s | 80s | 90s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Drama, Gangster, Historic Events, Queer Film/TV, Thriller
Pacino is magnificent. With Michael Corleone in The Godfather movies, “Dog Day Afternoon” is his defining role.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 10, 2022 | 70s | 80s | 90s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Drama, Queer Film/TV
Why did Billy Joe McAllister jump off the Tallahassee Bridge? The answer, according to director Max Baer, is because he slept with a man.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 10, 2022 | 70s | 80s | 90s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Drama, Horror, Most Popular, Pauline Kael, Queer Film/TV, Thriller
Brian De Palma’s masterpiece and one of the GREAT HORROR MOVIES with tremendous performances from Sissy Spacek and Piper Laurie. The unforgettable score is by Pino Donaggio.
Read Moreby Patrick | Aug 11, 2022 | 70s | 80s | 90s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Drama, Genres, Masterpieces, My Favorites, Mystery, Queer Film/TV, Thriller
“Ripley”, Minghella’s masterpiece, boasts Matt Damon’s best performance plus stunning turns by Philip Seymour Hoffman and Jude Law.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 1, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Drama, Queer Film/TV
Bette Davis in her greatest role with some of the best lines ever written. Both Addison and Eve are gay and he blackmails her.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 1, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Drama, Queer Film/TV
“Hype the New Fish”. Innocent Eleanor Parker spends time in a women’s prison. With Hope Emerson and Agnes Moorehead.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 1, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Drama, Queer Film/TV
Lauren Bacall is Kirk Douglas’ young man with a horn’s society wife who is also a closeted lesbian. Bacall is very good in a risque role.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 10, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Drama, Queer Film/TV, Southern Gothic
The best play to film adaptation of all-time with two of the greatest performances: Vivien Leigh as Blanch DuBois and Marlon Brando as Stanley Kowalski.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 1, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Classic Film Noir, Drama, Film Noir, Film Reviews, Genres, Hitchcock, My Favorites, Queer Film/TV, Thriller, TV / Streaming, YouTube
Hitchcock reverses himself here, having gay actor Farley Granger play the straight character and straight actor Robert Walker play the gay character.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 10, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Comedy, Musicals, Queer Film/TV, Romance
It’s Howard Hawks again, this time adapting the Jule Stein/Leo Robin Broadway smash “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes”. With Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 15, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Classic Film Noir, Drama, Film Noir, Mystery, Thriller, TV / Streaming
The buildup to Monroe’s superstardom started here. The magnificent widescreen technicolor cinematography if by Joseph MacDonald.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 10, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Action, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Drama, Queer Film/TV, Western
A Western with two female leads is that rarest of cinematic jewels and, under Nicholas Ray’s direction, both Crawford and McCambridge play to the gallery.
Read Moreby Patrick | Oct 6, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Classic Film Noir, Drama, Film Noir, Film Reviews, Genres, Hitchcock, My Favorites, Mystery, Romance, Thriller, TV / Streaming, YouTube
Stewart, Kelly, and Ritter are all magnificent. Kelly, looking radiant, gets to deliver one of the big screen’s all-time sexy lines.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 10, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Drama, Queer Film/TV, Romance
Wood, Dean and Mineo form a nuclear family under the shadow of Griffith Park Observatory. Sal Mineo’s Plato is Hollywood’s first adolescent gay character.
Read MoreNancy Kelly is ON 100% of the time straddling the twin minefields of camp and drama yet managing to accomplish both simultaneously.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 10, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Drama, Queer Film/TV, Southern Gothic
The film’s central tenet is that Kyle (Oscar Nominee Robert Stack) and his ruthless sister Marylee (Oscar winner Dorothy Malone) lust after the same man.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 10, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Drama, Queer Film/TV
One of Deborah Kerr’s most sympathetic performances. Both she she and John Kerr (no relation) originated their roles on the Broadway stage.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 10, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Comedy, Drama, Musicals, Queer Film/TV, Romance
“Funny Face“, the 1957 musical romantic comedy directed by Stanley Donen, boasts Audrey Hepburn’s most charming screen performance.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 11, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Classic Film Noir, Drama, Film Noir, Gangster, Genres, My Favorites, Queer Film/TV, Thriller
Yes, that is Mercedes McCambridge as the unnamed lesbian gang leader getting her kicks while watching Janet Leigh getting roughed up in Welles’ other masterwork.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 11, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Comedy, Drama, Queer Film/TV
Gay director Morton DaCosta (his real name) directs like he is still in the theatre – he did better in his second and final visit to Hollywood with “The Music Man”.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 11, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Drama, Queer Film/TV, Southern Gothic
Richard Brooks respectable adaptation of the Tennessee Williams play opens with Brick (Paul Newman) pining and drinking in his bedroom for the memory of his best friend (read lover) Skipper.
Read Moreby Patrick | Oct 6, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Classic Film Noir, Drama, Film Noir, Film Reviews, Genres, Hitchcock, Mystery, Romance, Thriller, TV / Streaming, YouTube
Anchored by an incredible performance by James Stewart as Scotty Ferguson a private detective and ex-cop who suffers from vertigo (fear of heights) after a coworker fell to his death, and Kim Novak is spectacular in the dual role of Judy/Madeleine.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 11, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Drama, Queer Film/TV
The movie is risible, its few pleasures come from Hepburn’s regal (but very nasty) mother who will do anything to protect her son’s memory.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 11, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Comedy, Gangster, Historic Events, Queer Film/TV, TV / Streaming
“Some Like It Hot“ was only the second (following Otto Preminger’s “The Moon is Blue” in 1953) mainstream Hollywood movie NOT to be submitted to the Hays Office.
Read Moreby Patrick | Oct 6, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Action, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Classic Film Noir, Drama, Film Noir, Film Reviews, Gangster, Genres, Hitchcock, My Favorites, Mystery, Romance, Thriller, TV / Streaming, YouTube
Eva Marie Saint gives Grace Kelly in “Rear Window” a run for her money as Hitchcock’s most elegant leading lady and the chemistry between the two leads is more palpable than in any Hollywood picture before or since.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 11, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Comedy, Queer Film/TV
Hudson’s characters has a gay alter ego named “Rex” and supporting actors Tony Randall and Nick Allen are constantly brushing off the gay ceiling.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 11, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Action, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Drama, Epic, Historic Events, Queer Film/TV
If you believe Gore Vidal it was all because of a lover’s spat. Wyler and Boyd were in on the ruse, and Boyd played his scenes that way, but Heston was not.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 11, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Drama, Queer Film/TV
A beautiful adaptation of the William Inge play directed by Delbert Mann from a great script by Harriet Frank Jr. and Irving Ravetch..
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 11, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Classic Film Noir, Drama, Film Noir, Film Reviews, Genres, Hitchcock, Horror, My Favorites, Mystery, Queer Film/TV, Road Movie, Thriller, TV / Streaming, YouTube
Anthony Perkins’ Norman Bates made him immortal while, at the same, time, ending his career in Hollywood. A masterpiece.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 11, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Action, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Drama, Epic, Historic Events, Queer Film/TV
The Kirk Douglas/Stanley Kubrick epic has not aged well but the supporting cast,, particularly Laurence Olivier and Peter Ustinov, make it worth seeing.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 11, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Amazon Prime Video, Drama, Historic Events, Queer Film/TV
They say that this film did more to sway public and political opinion on homosexuality in England than any parliamentary discussion.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 11, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Drama, Queer Film/TV
Although he was playing a teenager, gay actor Murray Melvin was almost thirty when he made “A Taste of Honey” with Rita Tushingham.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 11, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Drama, Queer Film/TV
Not having the courage of his convictions, what started out as bravery ended in cowardice and it’s a shame.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 11, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Drama, Queer Film/TV, Thriller
Preminger always liked to be cutting edge and he was with “Advise and Consent” a beautifully written, acted and directed movie.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 11, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Comedy, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Queer Film/TV
Both of Hollywood’s grande dames Bette Davis and Joan Crawford are in top form with Davis getting the showier role as faded child star Baby Jane Hudson.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 11, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Comedy, Queer Film/TV
In between the Rock Hudson movies “Lover Come Back” (1961) and “Send Me no Flowers” (1964), Doris Day paired up with Cary Grant.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 12, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Criterion Collection, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, My Favorites, Romance, TV / Streaming, Under Appreciated
In fact, many of Theodore Isaac Rubin’s beliefs have now fallen out of favor. Despite the film’s sensitive moments, it often seems dangerously simplistic and naive.
Read Moreby Patrick | Mar 16, 2023 | 50s | 60s, Action, Drama, Epic, Film Reviews, Genres, Historic Events, Mystery, Queer Film/TV
Many, including gay composer Benjamin Britton and his famous opera, maintain that there is an undercurrent of homoeroticism between the three leads.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 11, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Cinematographers, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, My Favorites, Queer Film/TV, TV / Streaming, YouTube
Writer/director Bryan Forbes lovely and faithful adaptation of the Lynne Reid Banks novel boasts Leslie Caron’s greatest performance.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 11, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, BFI Classics, Cinematographers, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, My Favorites, Queer Film/TV, Thriller, TV / Streaming
A savage indictment of the waning British class system, it’s one of the most chilling films ever made. Winner of Best Screenplay of 1964 from the NYFCC.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 11, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Drama, Horror, Queer Film/TV
As a chic Greenwich village lesbian named Theo, whose couture is designed by Mary Quant, Claire Bloom is a knockout in Robert Wise’s 1963 movie “The Haunting”.
Read Moreby Patrick | Aug 31, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Drama, Film Reviews, Masterpieces, Thriller
“The Best Man” boasts three outstanding performances: Henry Fonda, Cliff Robertson and pre-code star Lee Tracy who returns to the screen.
Read Moreby Patrick | Aug 31, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Drama, Film Reviews, Masterpieces, Thriller, TV / Streaming
A peak entry in the American political thriller genre, the film boasts four of the greatest performances of the sixties.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 11, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Classix, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Queer Film/TV, TV / Streaming
Canadian journeyman Sidney J. Furie, does a striking job with this “gay” love story set within the milieu of London’s biker subculture.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 11, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Comedy, Queer Film/TV, Uncategorized
Great fun was had by all adapting Evelyn Waugh’s 1948 short satirical novel about the funeral business in Los Angeles.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 11, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Amazon Prime Video, Drama, Queer Film/TV, Uncategorized
“Darling” stars the impossibly beautiful Julie Christie, even if far more people saw in her as Laura in David Lean’s “Doctor Zhivago”.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 11, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Internet Archive, Queer Film/TV, TV / Streaming
“My Hustler” is a hugely different film from Warhol’s previous offerings with a solid narrative and surprisingly good performances.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 11, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Drama, Mystery, Queer Film/TV
Two of the world’s greatest actresses under the gaze of one of the greatest movie directors the world has ever known.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 11, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Drama, Queer Film/TV, Southern Gothic
John Huston’s favorite of all his movies. Brando does something amazing with his closeted gay character who is married to Elizabeth Taylor.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 12, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Criterion Collection, Documentary, Film Reviews, Genres, Queer Film/TV, TV / Streaming
A true breakthrough and a film that has improved with age. Documentary filmmaker Shirley Clarke interviews gay African American hustler and aspiring cabaret performer Jason Holliday in his apartment at the Hotel Chelsea.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 12, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Drama, Epic, Mystery, Under Appreciated
With a near-great performance by Burt Lancaster as the title character who “swims his way home” through his “river” of backyard swimming pools…
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 12, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Drama, Queer Film/TV
“The Fox” does interesting things with color saturation (Bill Fraker) and the Lalo Schifrin score has entered the jazz canon.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 12, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Drama, Queer Film/TV, Thriller
“Dorian”, Gill’s hairdresser persona is, of course, gay with a classic sibilant-rich delivery. In the movie’s best scene, just as he is caressing the neck of his intended victim Miss Belle Poppie…
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 12, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Drama, Mystery, Queer Film/TV, Thriller
However, the awful script by Abby Mann – “Judgement at Nuremberg” – and the mediocre direction by Gordon Douglas put the kibosh on everything.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 11, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Queer Film/TV, Science Fiction
In Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey”, HAL 9000 is the psychotic gay computer abord Discovery One. HAL is in love with Dave and quickly dispatches with copilot Frank.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 12, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Kino Lorber, Queer Film/TV, TV / Streaming
Beryl Reid is marvelous as “George”. That’s not her name. It’s the name of the character she plays in a beloved long-running BBC series.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 12, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Drama, Queer Film/TV
Highly regarded at the time of its release (NYFCC awards going to Newman as Best Director and Woodward as Best Actress), it seems a bit underwhelming today.
Read Moreby Patrick | Mar 16, 2023 | 50s | 60s, Action, Apple TV+, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Historic Events, Queer Film/TV, Romance
The subject matter, its release during the Christmas season, and a couple of scathing reviews by the major critics of the time, sealed its fate.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 11, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Amazon Prime Video, Drama, Historic Events, Queer Film/TV
Luchino Viconti’s “The Damned” centers on the Essenbecks (read Krupp family) on the night of the Reichstag fire in early 1933.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 11, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Queer Film/TV, TV / Streaming, YouTube
On the stage Dyer may have been trying to project two sides of his own personality. However, any such subtlety is lost in translation.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 11, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Drama, Queer Film/TV
John Schlesinger’s American debut is only X-rated movie to win Best Picture. It boasts two great performances courtesy of Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffmann.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 1, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Drama, Under Appreciated
..but it is Hershey who is really stunning as the manipulative Sandy. Then, into their lives wanders Rhoda (Oscar nominee Cathy Burns)…
Read Moreby Patrick | Mar 25, 2023 | 50s | 60s, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Queer Film/TV, Romance
The Queer element in the film comes from Brenda’s older brother Ron. Ron has the hots for Neil (Richard Benjamin) who he keeps inviting back to his room.
Read Moreby Patrick | Aug 31, 2022 | 30s | 40s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Comedy, Drama, Horror, Queer Film/TV
Director James Whale’s masterpiece is as close to Susan Sontag’s definition of high camp as the movies can deliver.
Read Moreby Patrick | Aug 31, 2022 | 30s | 40s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Comedy, Film Reviews, Genres, Musicals, Queer Film/TV, Romance
The Best of the Astaire-Rogers movies. Cinematography: David Abel. Production Design: Carroll Clark/Van Nest Polglase. Songs: Irving Berlin.
Read Moreby Patrick | Aug 31, 2022 | 30s | 40s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Comedy, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Queer Film/TV
Both gay and trans, Sylvia/Sylvester set the bar impossibly high for years to come. One of the great financial disasters of the 1930s, it resulted in Hepburn being labelled box office poison.
Read Moreby Patrick | Jan 17, 2022 | 30s | 40s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Drama, Genres, Masterpieces, Romance
“Dodsworth”: William Wyler’s masterpiece, the best movie ever made about the fear of growing old. It was Wyler’s first Oscar nomination.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 1, 2022 | 30s | 40s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Comedy, Drama, Film Reviews, Queer Film/TV
Every character in the movie, and every animal featured, was female. Great work by Crawford, Russell, Shearer and Mary Boland.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 1, 2022 | 30s | 40s, Action, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Genres, Musicals, Queer Film/TV
She captured everyone’s heart, gay or straight. There is something vulnerable yet confident about her. And then there is that incredible voice!
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 1, 2022 | 30s | 40s, Classic Film Noir, Drama, Film Noir, Film Reviews, Genres, Hitchcock, My Favorites, Mystery, Queer Film/TV, Thriller, TV / Streaming, YouTube
“Rebecca”, marked the arrival in Hollywood of the man who was, or would eventually become, the greatest director in the history of cinema.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 1, 2022 | 30s | 40s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Classic Film Noir, Drama, Film Noir, Film Reviews, Gangster, Mystery, Queer Film/TV, Thriller
The performances are there to savor with the great Mary Astor doing a superb turn as Bridget O’ Shaughnessy and the gay triumvirate bringing up the rear!
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 1, 2022 | 30s | 40s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Comedy, Queer Film/TV
Monty Wooley delights as the impossibly pompous Sheridan Whiteside in William Keighley’s wonderful adaptation of the Kauffman/Hart play.
Read Moreby Patrick | Oct 5, 2022 | 30s | 40s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Classic Film Noir, Drama, Film Noir, Hitchcock, Mystery, Thriller, TV / Streaming, YouTube
Alfred Hitchcock, the cinema’s greatest director, made seven perfect films in which every shot, every camera move, every editing sequence is, well, perfect.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 1, 2022 | 30s | 40s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Classic Film Noir, Drama, Film Noir, Film Reviews, Genres, Queer Film/TV, Romance, Thriller
“Double Indemnity” is the best of the three great film noirs of 1944, the others being “Laura” and “The Woman in the Window”. The three leads are superb as is Wilder’s direction.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 1, 2022 | 30s | 40s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Classic Film Noir, Drama, Film Noir, Mystery, Queer Film/TV, Romance, Thriller
“Laura” is one of the classic film noirs. Gene Tierney is born and Clifton Webb becomes a star in his fifties. Haunting Raksin score.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 1, 2022 | 30s | 40s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Drama, Mystery, Queer Film/TV, Thriller
Albert Lewin directed his masterpiece, a superb adaptation of Oscar Wild’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray” with a beautiful Hurd Hatfield.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 1, 2022 | 30s | 40s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Classic Film Noir, Drama, Film Noir, Gangster, Mystery, Queer Film/TV, Thriller
Feast your eyes on Vidor’s stylish direction, Rudolph Mate lush black-and-white cinematography the Jean Louis gowns and, of course, Rita Hayworth as Gilda.
Read Moreby Patrick | Oct 6, 2022 | 30s | 40s, Apple TV+, Classic Film Noir, Drama, Film Noir, Hitchcock, My Favorites, Mystery, Romance, Thriller, TV / Streaming, YouTube
The term “MacGuffin” originated by Angus MacPhail for film, adopted by Alfred Hitchcock, and later extended to a similar device in other fiction. The MacGuffin here is the Uranium in the cellar.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 1, 2022 | 30s | 40s, Action, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Queer Film/TV, Western
1948 was the year of Montgomery Clift. In addition to Hawkes “Red River” there was Fred Zinnemann’s “The Search” and William Wyler’s “The Heiress”.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 1, 2022 | 30s | 40s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Drama, Film Noir, Film Reviews, Genres, Historic Events, Hitchcock, My Favorites, Queer Film/TV, Thriller, TV / Streaming, YouTube
The story, which is based on the Leopold and Loeb case is irresistible. Granger and Dall are perfection and Jimmy Stewart is also amazing.
Read Moreby Patrick | Jan 23, 2022 | 30s | 40s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Comedy, Drama, Film Reviews, Masterpieces, My Favorites, Queer Film/TV, Thriller
In “Kind Hearts and Coronets”: Alec Guinness has fun playing all eight (or nine) of the unfortunate D’Ascoynes, including Lady Agatha D’Ascoyne. The photograph shows Dennis Price with Joan Greenwood who plays that little minx Sibella.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 1, 2022 | 30s | 40s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Comedy, Drama, Queer Film/TV
Marvelous acting by Judy Holliday, Jean Hagen, Hope Emerson, Tom Ewell and, as Amanda’s “gay best friend”, David Wayne.
Read Moreby Patrick | Mar 2, 2023 | Archival Posts, Documentary, Film Reviews, Genres, MUBI, TV / Streaming
A “haulout” is a place where walruses mate. Thanks to global warming, over 100,000 are packed into one tiny beach. The result is death on a horrific scale.
Read Moreby Patrick | Dec 4, 2022 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Archival Posts, Documentary, Film Reviews, Genres, Historic Events, Queer Film/TV, TV / Streaming
“All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” ends up falling between two stools and deceives its audience in the process.
Read Moreby Patrick | Oct 5, 2022 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Archival Posts, Documentary, Film Reviews, Hulu, Paramount, Queer Film/TV, Showtime, TV / Streaming
Sinéad Had No Second Act! Unfortunately, the movie agrees. We get Sinéad up to the moment of her self-destruction and no more.
Read Moreby Patrick | Apr 14, 2022 | Shorts and Trailers
A young mother (Natalie Press), who wants to rekindle an old relationship, neglects her four children for an evening.
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