The Banality of Evil in Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest
The banality of evil winds its way around every scene. However, we do feel something. Tension, perhaps, mixed with boredom.
Read Moreby Patrick | Dec 7, 2023 | Best International Film, Drama, Film Reviews, Historic Events, My Favorites, New Releases, Thriller
The banality of evil winds its way around every scene. However, we do feel something. Tension, perhaps, mixed with boredom.
Read Moreby Patrick | Nov 22, 2023 | Action, Drama, Epic, Film Reviews, Genres, Historic Events, New Releases, Romance
An epic disaster of Waterloo proportions. The movie has no style and makes no sense. If you are looking for a history lesson, go elsewhere.
Read Moreby Patrick | Nov 21, 2023 | Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Historic Events, New Releases, Queer Film/TV, Queer Film/TV, Romance
Leaving out vast chunks of the great conductor’s life, Cooper gives a vain impersonation of a vain man while Carey Mulligan takes the acting honors.
Read Moreby Patrick | Nov 18, 2023 | Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Historic Events, My Favorites, Netflix, New Releases, Queer Film/TV, Queer Film/TV, Thriller, TV / Streaming
Unfortunately, the movie never takes off because of a cliche-ridden screenplay despite Domingo’s great performance.
Read Moreby Patrick | Nov 10, 2023 | Drama, Genres, Historic Events, Paramount, Queer Film/TV, Romance, Showtime, TV / Streaming
“Fellow Travelers” is “The Way We Were,” with Jewish being replaced by Queer, Redford by Bomer and Barbra by Bailey. It’s compulsively watchable, just not a classic.
Read Moreby Patrick | Nov 6, 2023 | Drama, Fantasy, Film Reviews, Genres, Historic Events, My Favorites, Mystery, New Releases, Queer Film/TV, Queer Film/TV, Romance, Science Fiction, Thriller
The direction of Haigh in this film is exceptional, creating an enthralling atmosphere that visually amazes the audience.
Read Moreby Patrick | May 30, 2023 | Drama, Genres, Historic Events, Netflix, Queer Film/TV, Romance, TV / Streaming
It’s all just as delicious as the original two series with the two Lady Danbury’s taking all of the acting honors in their respective time periods.
Read Moreby Patrick | May 6, 2023 | Drama, HBO Max, Historic Events, Mystery, Thriller, TV / Streaming
This is the superior version thanks to a spectacularly good Elizabeth Olsen as Montgomery, a housewife who has everything on the Baby Boom checklist.
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 20, 2023 | Amazon Prime Video, Drama, Genres, Historic Events, LA Music Scene, Music & Art, Musicals, Queer Film/TV, Romance, TV / Streaming
For me, the one magical moment in the series occurs when Keogh and Claflin share the mic in their first concert together.
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, Starz, TV / Streaming
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 | Oct 23, 2023 | Action, Drama, Epic, Film Reviews, Gangster, Genres, Historic Events, Mystery, New Releases, Romance, Thriller, Western
Scorsese directs all of these multiple storylines with great flair. from the broad vistas to the most minute period detail in costume and production design.
Read Moreby Patrick | Oct 26, 2023 | Action, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Best International Film, Criterion Collection, Drama, Epic, Film Reviews, Genres, Historic Events, Horror, Masterpieces, My Favorites, Queer Film/TV, Queer Film/TV, Road Movie, Thriller, TV / Streaming
Pálmason, his cinematographer (Maria von Hausswolff), and his composer (Alex Zhang Hungtai), bring back colonial memories of such movies as “Black Robe”.
Read Moreby Patrick | Oct 13, 2023 | Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Historic Events, New Releases, Romance
The only part of the movie that works – and gives you a look at what the movie could have been – are the opening scenes on the United States Army Base in Germany.
Read Moreby Patrick | Oct 15, 2023 | Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Historic Events, My Favorites, Netflix, New Releases, Queer Film/TV, Queer Film/TV, TV / Streaming
Both actresses are marvelous with Foster giving her best performance in decades.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 8, 2023 | Comedy, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Historic Events, New Releases, Road Movie
In the second hour, the movie enters a different realm due to the appearance of Jeremy Allen White and his palpable chemistry with our leading lady.
Read Moreby Patrick | Jul 21, 2023 | Drama, Film Reviews, Historic Events, New Releases, Thriller
In the midst of all this history and all of this chaos, Cillian Murphy gives one of the most intimate and internalized performances on film.
Read Moreby Patrick | Aug 1, 2023 | Documentary, Documentary, Genres, HBO Max, Historic Events, Horror, Mystery, Queer Film/TV, 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 Moreby Patrick | Jul 5, 2023 | Documentary, Documentary, Film Reviews, Genres, Historic Events, Netflix, Queer Film/TV, 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 Moreby Patrick | Oct 21, 2022 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Archival Posts, Comedy, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, HBO Max, Historic Events, Hulu, 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 | 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 | Apr 14, 2023 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Drama, Historic Events, Masterpieces, My Favorites, Queer Film/TV
“Beanpole” conveys, beautifully, the ability of human beings to find moments of intimacy and even love under the most horrific of circumstances.
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 | 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 | Nov 6, 2022 | Apple TV+, Archival Posts, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Historic Events, Queer Film/TV, Romance, 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 | 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 17, 2022 | Archival Posts, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Historic Events, Netflix, Romance, TV / Streaming
Superb performances by Emma Corrin and Jack O’Connell transform this adaptation into a film of great beauty and, yes, sensuality.
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 | Apr 30, 2023 | Action, Archival Posts, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Historic Events
Matching Gyllenhaal, Salim gives a supremely dignified yet deeply moving performance that is worthy of a Best Supporting Actor nomination.
Read Moreby Patrick | Oct 11, 2022 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Archival Posts, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Historic Events, 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 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 | May 21, 2023 | Archival Posts, Comedy, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Historic Events
Balsillie is the yin to Lazaridis” yang. Baruchel and Howerton complement one another at every turn as Balsillie has eyes for the Pittsburgh Steelers!
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 27, 2022 | Archival Posts, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Historic Events, Netflix, Pauline Kael, TV / Streaming
Immersing herself completely in the role of Norma Jean/Marilyn Monroe, Ana de Armas is sensational. And exhausting!
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 | Nov 16, 2022 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Archival Posts, Comedy, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Historic Events, 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 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 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 | Jun 27, 2023 | 70s | 80s | 90s, Action, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, BFI Classics, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Historic Events, Queer Film/TV, Thriller, TV / Streaming
Another example of a gay character whose sole purpose in the movie is to be killed. Still, Zinnemmann and Rodgers treat his character with a modicum of respect.
Read Moreby Patrick | May 22, 2023 | 70s | 80s | 90s, Classic Film Noir, Drama, Film Noir, Film Reviews, Genres, Historic Events, Mystery, Thriller
Polanski captured the FEEL of LA better than anyone before or sense. Jack Nicholson gives his greatest performance as private dick J. J. ” Jake” Gittes.
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 | 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 | 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 | Mar 16, 2023 | 50s | 60s, Action, Apple TV+, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Historic Events, Queer Film/TV, Romance
The subject matter, its release during the Christmas season, and a couple of scathing reviews by the major critics of the time, sealed its fate.
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 1, 2022 | 30s | 40s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Drama, Film Noir, Film Reviews, Genres, Historic Events, Hitchcock, My Favorites, Queer Film/TV, Thriller, TV / Streaming, YouTube
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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