Flee (2021) Film Review
I left “Flee” with that “floating-on-air feeling” that you get after seeing something special. After seeing a masterpiece.
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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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, 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 | 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 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…
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