The Staircase (2022) Limited Series Review
The result: compulsive viewing for seven out of the eight episodes. Colin Firth is spellbinding. Toni Collette is equally superb.
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Category: Historic Events
The Serpent Queen (2022) Review
Catherine is now played by Samantha Morton who seems to have waited her whole life for this role. Every word, every gesture is savored
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Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story (2022) Review
Evan Peters, Josh Braaten (young Jeffrey), Niecy Nash as nest-door-neighbor Glenda and a magnificent Richard Jenkins as Dahmer’s Father, all give stellar performances.
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A Very British Scandal (2022) – Limited Series Review
The Duke has two boys. They figure prominently in the story. Margaret has two girls. We never see them. Careless, condescending filmmaking.
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The Crown: Season 5 Review
The overall tone of the series is trashy and Morgan’s treatment of Charles reeks of sycophantic propaganda.
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The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) Film Review
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.
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Causeway (2022) Film Review
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.
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Till (2022) Film Review
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…
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Babylon (2022) Film Review
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
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Bardo (2022) Film Review
The result is an exhausting piece of self-indulgent filmmaking filled with moments of greatness with one indelible image after another.
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The Fabelmans (2022) Film Review
He films one of his jock tormentors as a blond God-like figure – I swear, it reminded me of Leni Riefenstahl’s “Olympia.”
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Emily (2022) Film Review
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.
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She Said (2022) Review…Watch the Money Shots on Your iPhone
So, my advice is to watch this movie on your iPhone and fast-forward through everything except Morton and Ehle.
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Nitram (2022) Film Review
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
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Flee (2021) Film Review
I left “Flee” with that “floating-on-air feeling” that you get after seeing something special. After seeing a masterpiece.
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Parallel Mothers (2021) Film Review
Now, ” Live Flesh” has dropped to the number two position. “Parallel Mothers” is the new movie at the top of my treasured Almodóvar catalog.
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Quo Vadis Aida (2020) Film Review
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.
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Spencer (2021) Film Review
Stewart is simply amazing in the role channeling all that star power into a Diana, you feel you know instantly.
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Dance of the Forty-One (2020) Film Review
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.
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Dear Comrades (2020) Film Review
Andrei Konchalovsky’s Searing Indictment of a little-known Khrushchev Era Massacre is his best work in years.
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Blonde (2022) Film Review – Marilyn Monroe is exploited once again
Immersing herself completely in the role of Norma Jean/Marilyn Monroe, Ana de Armas is sensational. And exhausting!
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Eurovision Song Contest (2020) Film Review
“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.
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Licorice Pizza (2021) Film Review
“Licorice Pizza” and the gay stereotype. Here is a mincing queen with movements so exaggerated he could have Tourette’s syndrome.
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Rope (1948) Film Review
The story, which is based on the Leopold and Loeb case is irresistible. Granger and Dall are perfection and Jimmy Stewart is also amazing.
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Some Like it Hot (1959) Film Review
“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.
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Ben Hur (1959) Film Review
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.
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Spartacus (1960) Film Review
The Kirk Douglas/Stanley Kubrick epic has not aged well but the supporting cast,, particularly Laurence Olivier and Peter Ustinov, make it worth seeing.
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Victim (1960) Film Review
They say that this film did more to sway public and political opinion on homosexuality in England than any parliamentary discussion.
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The Damned (1969) Film Review
Luchino Viconti’s “The Damned” centers on the Essenbecks (read Krupp family) on the night of the Reichstag fire in early 1933.
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The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970) Film Review
“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.
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Cabaret (1972) Film Review
Based on the 1966 Broadway musical “Cabaret” by Kander and Ebb which was adapted from Christopher Isherwood’s The Berlin Stories” (1945).
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Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) Film Review
Weir, who showed, like Hitchcock, that horror can be visited upon us on the brightest and most beautiful of summer days.
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Dog Day Afternoon (1975) Film Review
Pacino is magnificent. With Michael Corleone in The Godfather movies, “Dog Day Afternoon” is his defining role.
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All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022) Film Review
“All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” ends up falling between two stools and deceives its audience in the process.
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