The Gospel of Ryan Murphy’s Jeffrey Dahmer in Ten Chapters.
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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Category: Historic Events
Samantha Morton’s dazzles as Catherine de’ Medici, the Serpent Queen.
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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“The Staircase” excels until the final episode.
The result: compulsive viewing for seven out of the eight episodes. Colin Firth is spellbinding. Toni Collette is equally superb.
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“The First Lady” is a Travesty (Michelle Pfeiffer excepted).
Every scene is populated by idiots whose sole purpose is to treat The First Lady like shit and then, in some sort of epiphany, realize who wonderful she is.
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“Gaslit” takes the Dr. Strangelove path and it Works.
However, we are always cognizant of the ruthlessness and lack of respect for their fellow human beings that these bozos were capable of.
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The Gospel According to Ruddy is One You Should Refuse.
The result is equal parts a Ruddy hagiography and a very cheap looking recreation of Hollywood in the late sixties and early seventies.
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Claire Foy is wasted in a very limp “Scandal”.
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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1959. Ben Hur. 50s 60s
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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1960. Spartacus. 50s 60s
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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1960. Victim. 50s and 60s
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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1971. The Garden of the Finzi Continis. 70s 80s 90s
“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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1972. Cabaret. 70s 80s 90s
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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1975. Picnic at Hanging Rock. 70s 80s 90s
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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Franz Rogowski astonishes us again in “Great Freedom”.
On the other hand, Meuse directs some of the most beautiful and heartfelt scenes ever captured between two men in love.
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Kosovo’s Best International Film “Hive”.
“Hive” Kosovo’s best international film shortlister focuses on a group of women whose husbands dissapeared during the war.
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“Dance of the Forty-One”: A Double Life.
“Dance of the 41″ examines the consequences of leading a double life. When your natural impulses are at odds with the rules of society.
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“Flee” Will Leave You Spellbound.
I left “Flee” with that “floating-on-air feeling” that you get after seeing something really special. After seeing a masterpiece.
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“Parallel Mothers”: Almodovar’s Crowning Achievement.
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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“The Power of the Dog”: Film of the Year?
“The Power of the Dog” is one of the best films of 2021. Campion directs with an expert hand assisted by Ari Wegner and Jonny Greenwood.
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“Benediction” Fails to Win Our Approval.
Davies’ dialogue is irritatingly precious and the scenes begin to resemble tableaux vivants with Sassoon disappearing into the background.
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“The Duke” is a fitting coda to the career of the late Roger Michell.
Michell is content to sit back and hand the film over to Broadbent. If you are a Broadbent fan, as I am, you are in for a good time.
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Elvis is excessive, even by Baz Luhrmann Standards.
The narrative is actually the most interesting part of the movie since i is told by the devil incarnate himself, Colonel Tom Parker.
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Sara is a Worthy Addition to the Cinema of Holocaust Survival.
Sara escapes from the ghetto and poses as a gentile nanny for a Ukrainian farmer his wife. They need her almost as much as she needs them.
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“Licorice Pizza” and the Gay Stereotype.
“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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A Week With Lucy And Desi Should Be More Fun.
Nicole Kidman, gives Lucy her best shot. The gap between Sorkin the screenwriter and Sorkin the movie director widens as the film proceeds.
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Jasmila Zbanic’s Evocative Quo Vadis, Aida?
Jasmila Zbanic’s evocative Qui Vadis, Aida? For two hours, you watch as she frantically tries to get her husband and sons to safety..
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Andrei Konchalovsky’s Searing “Dear Comrades”.
Andrei Konchalovsky’s searing “Dear Comrades”. Her daughter does not share her mother’s views and is dissatisfied with her lot in life.
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Oliver Hermanus Gay Coming-of-Age “Moffie”.
Oliver Hermanus gay coming-of-age “Moffie”. He must keep this a secret from everyone even with all the horsing around in the group showers.
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