Beef (2023) The Netflix/A24 Production is Worth Savoring
Created by Lee Sung Jin, the series boasts a wonderful script and spectacular turns by Steven Yeun and Ali Wong as the central characters.
Read Moreby Patrick | Apr 6, 2023 | Comedy, Drama, Netflix, Queer Film/TV, TV / Streaming
Created by Lee Sung Jin, the series boasts a wonderful script and spectacular turns by Steven Yeun and Ali Wong as the central characters.
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 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 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 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 | 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 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+, 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+, 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 | 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, 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 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 | 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 | 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, 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 | 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.
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