Grey Gardens (1975) A+ to Feud (2024) A+. The Maysles Brothers.
Gradually, the film’s high campness, including some deliciously bitchy one-liners between Big and Little Edie, developed a significant gay following.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Feb 10, 2024 | A+, Apple TV+ Amazon, Criterion Collection, Documentary, Ratings: Movies and Television, TV / Streaming, YouTube |
Gradually, the film’s high campness, including some deliciously bitchy one-liners between Big and Little Edie, developed a significant gay following.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Jan 1, 2024 | A+, Apple TV+ Amazon, Documentary, Ratings: Movies and Television, TV / Streaming |
Director/Editor Madeleine Gavin masterfully combines these two storylines with some astonishing insights into what it’s like to live in North Korea
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Aug 1, 2023 | A+, Documentary, Genres (Action - Music Scene), Historic Events, Horror, Max, Mystery, Queer Film/TV, Queer Film/TV, Ratings: Movies and Television, Thriller, TV / Streaming |
Caronna gives these five men back their dignity, something they were stripped of when they became victims of a horrific crime.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Dec 28, 2023 | A+, Apple TV+ Amazon, Documentary, Genres (Action - Music Scene), Historic Events, Ratings: Movies and Television, TV / Streaming |
Mstyslav Chernov’s masterful documentary chronicles the period he spent in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol when Vladimir Putin’s Russian forces attacked it.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Dec 30, 2023 | A, Apple TV+ Amazon, Documentary, LA Music Scene, Music & Art, Ratings: Movies and Television, TV / Streaming |
Photographer/filmmaker Anton Corbijn has directed a hugely enjoyable documentary about Hipgnosis, the duo who revolutionized the album cover as an art form.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | May 16, 2023 | A, Apple TV+ Amazon, Documentary, Genres (Action - Music Scene), Historic Events, Ratings: Movies and Television, 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 MorePosted by Patrick | Aug 25, 2023 | A-, Documentary, Genres (Action - Music Scene), Historic Events, Max, Ratings: Movies and Television, TV / Streaming |
American high school/college football is one big exploitation racket that massively exploits the young men on whose backs the whole system rests.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Jan 2, 2024 | A-, Apple TV+ Amazon, Documentary, Ratings: Movies and Television |
Paulina’s optimism carries over to the audience – a film whose subject matter is inherently depressing is unexpectedly uplifting.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Oct 12, 2023 | B+, Documentary, Genres (Action - Music Scene), Historic Events, Max, Ratings: Movies and Television, TV / Streaming |
Known “the first Black supermodel”, she was the first African-American model to grace the cover of Vogue – shot by photographer David Bailey – in March 1966.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Jul 5, 2023 | B+, Documentary, Genres (Action - Music Scene), Historic Events, Netflix, Queer Film/TV, Ratings: Movies and Television, TV / Streaming |
Cantu introduces you to people that you may not have heard of before. And those that you have, like Ernst Rohm and Magnus Hirschfeld are discussed…
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Dec 28, 2023 | B, Documentary, Netflix, TV / Streaming |
“It’s playing the thing that we all know is unfolding whether we want to or not. And it’s there always. We just need to harness it. Be open to it.”
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Dec 23, 2023 | B, Documentary, Ratings: Movies and Television, TV / Streaming |
Veteran documentary filmmaker Errol Morris’s documentary of David Cornwell, non-de-plum John le Carré, whose breakthrough novel “The Spy Who Came in From the Cold” sold upwards of 15 million copies.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Jan 14, 2021 | Apple TV+ Amazon, B-, Documentary, Queer Film/TV, Ratings: Movies and Television, 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 MorePosted by Patrick | Dec 28, 2021 | A+, Action, Apple TV+ Amazon, Archival Posts, Documentary, Drama, Epic, Film Reviews, Genres (Action - Music Scene), Genres (Musical-Western), Historic Events, Queer Film/TV, Queer Film/TV, Ratings: Movies and Television, Thriller, TV / Streaming |
I left “Flee” with that “floating-on-air feeling” that you get after seeing something special. After seeing a masterpiece.
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