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.
Read Moreby Patrick | May 30, 2022 | Drama, HBO Max, Historic Events, Mystery, Queer Film/TV, TV / Streaming
The result: compulsive viewing for seven out of the eight episodes. Colin Firth is spellbinding. Toni Collette is equally superb.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 17, 2022 | Drama, Genres, Historic Events, Paramount+ | Starz
Catherine is now played by Samantha Morton who seems to have waited her whole life for this role. Every word, every gesture is savored
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 26, 2022 | Drama, Historic Events, Horror, Netflix, Queer Film/TV, TV / Streaming
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.
Read Moreby Patrick | Apr 29, 2022 | Amazon Prime Video, Drama, Historic Events
The Duke has two boys. They figure prominently in the story. Margaret has two girls. We never see them. Careless, condescending filmmaking.
Read Moreby Patrick | Nov 13, 2022 | Drama, Genres, Historic Events, Netflix, TV / Streaming
The overall tone of the series is trashy and Morgan’s treatment of Charles reeks of sycophantic propaganda.
Read Moreby Patrick | Oct 21, 2022 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Award Season, BAFTA, Comedy, Critic Awards, DGA, Drama, Film Festivals, Film Reviews, Genres, Guild Awards, HBO Max, Historic Events, Hulu, LAFCA, My Favorites, National Board of Review, New Releases, NSFC, NYFCC, PGA, SAG, The Best of the Best, 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 | Nov 6, 2022 | Apple TV+, Award Season, Critic Awards, Drama, Film Festivals, Film Reviews, Genres, Gotham Independent Film Awards, Historic Events, Independent Spirit Awards, LAFCA, My Favorites, New Releases, NSFC, Queer Film/TV, Romance, The Best of the Best, 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 | Oct 11, 2022 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Award Season, BAFTA, Drama, Film Festivals, Film Reviews, Genres, Gotham Independent Film Awards, Guild Awards, Historic Events, LAFCA, My Favorites, National Board of Review, New Releases, SAG, The Best of the Best, 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 | Dec 25, 2022 | Action, Amazon Prime Video, Award Season, BAFTA, Comedy, Drama, Epic, Film Reviews, Genres, Guild Awards, Historic Events, Horror, My Favorites, New Releases, SAG, The Best of the Best, 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 | ASC, Award Season, Comedy, Drama, Epic, Film Festivals, Film Reviews, Genres, Guild Awards, Historic Events, Netflix, New Releases, Oscars, 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 16, 2022 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Award Season, BAFTA, Comedy, Critic Awards, DGA, Drama, Film Festivals, Film Reviews, Genres, Guild Awards, Historic Events, My Favorites, National Board of Review, New Releases, NSFC, PGA, SAG, The Best of the Best, 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 2, 2022 | Award Season, Comedy, Drama, Film Festivals, Film Reviews, Genres, Historic Events, New Releases, 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+, Award Season, BAFTA, Drama, Film Festivals, Film Reviews, Historic Events, New Releases, TV / Streaming
So, my advice is to watch this movie on your iPhone and fast-forward through everything except Morton and Ehle.
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, Documentary, 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 | 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 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 | 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 | 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, Historic Events
Andrei Konchalovsky’s Searing Indictment of a little-known Khrushchev Era Massacre is his best work in years.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 27, 2022 | Archival Posts, Drama, Film Reviews, Historic Events, Netflix, TV / Streaming
Immersing herself completely in the role of Norma Jean/Marilyn Monroe, Ana de Armas is sensational. And exhausting!
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 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 | Sep 1, 2022 | 30s | 40s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Disney+ | You Tube, Drama, Film Noir, Historic Events, Hitchcock, Queer Film/TV, Thriller
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 | 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, 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 | 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, 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 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 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 | 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+, 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 | Dec 4, 2022 | Award Season, BAFTA, Critic Awards, Documentary, Film Festivals, Film Reviews, Genres, Gotham Independent Film Awards, Historic Events, Independent Spirit Awards, LAFCA, National Board of Review, New Releases, NSFC, NYFCC, Queer Film/TV
“All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” ends up falling between two stools and deceives its audience in the process.
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