Rotting in The Sun (2023) Self-Referential with Penises Galore.
Now, after ten years in the (relative) wilderness, Saavedra and Silva (and Silva’s co-screenwriter Peirano) have returned with a delicious slice of meta.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 19, 2023 | Comedy, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, MUBI, Mystery, New Releases, Queer Film/TV, Thriller, TV / Streaming
Now, after ten years in the (relative) wilderness, Saavedra and Silva (and Silva’s co-screenwriter Peirano) have returned with a delicious slice of meta.
Read Moreby Patrick | Mar 25, 2023 | Genres, My Favorites, Queer Film/TV, Queer Film/TV
Hitchcock had a preference for casting gay actors in gay parts: Judith Anderson, Farley Granger, John Dall, or Anthony Perkins.
Read Moreby Patrick | Mar 25, 2023 | Genres, My Favorites, Queer Film/TV, Queer Film/TV
From James Whale’s “The Bride of Frankenstein’s” (1935) number one to Nicholas Ray’s “Rebel Without a Cause” (1955), we have 25 LGBTQ+ films.
Read Moreby Patrick | Mar 25, 2023 | Queer Film/TV, Queer Film/TV
From number 26, Douglas Sirk’s “Written on the Wind” (1956) to John Huston’s “Reflections in a Golden Eye” (1967), we have 30 LGBTQ+ films.
Read Moreby Patrick | Mar 26, 2023 | Genres, Queer Film/TV, Queer Film/TV
55 Queer Films Made Under the Hays Code (1934-1967) (Part 3). Table Summary.
Read Moreby Patrick | Jun 6, 2022 | My Favorites, Queer Film/TV
With the death of Hays code in 1967, Queer Cinema was ready to come out of the closet. 1967-1976 can be seen as Queer Cinema’s Stonewall.
Read Moreby Patrick | Aug 25, 2023 | Amazon Prime Video, Comedy, Drama, Genres, Queer Film/TV, Romance, TV / Streaming
Nicholas Galitzine, as Prince Harry, gives a perfect performance. Utterly believable. He’s the ONLY reason to see this movie but he is reason enough!
Read Moreby Patrick | Aug 1, 2023 | Documentary, Genres, HBO Max, Historic Events, Horror, My Favorites, 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, 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 | 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 | Apr 6, 2023 | Comedy, Drama, Netflix, Queer Film/TV, TV / Streaming
Created by Lee Sung Jin, the series boasts a wonderful script and spectacular turns by Steven Yeun and Ali Wong as the central characters.
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 | Aug 11, 2021 | Drama, Genres, HBO Max, Queer Film/TV, TV / Streaming
The action then unfolds in flashback…. Olivia and Paula instantly become the series’ Greek Chorus; the best-friend-duo from hell.
Read Moreby Patrick | Dec 29, 2021 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Drama, Genres, Hulu, Queer Film/TV, TV / Streaming
Blanchett then slowly hangs up the phone and returns, defeated, to the kitchen. In un hommage à Akerman, the camera frames her in medium shot.
Read Moreby Patrick | Aug 29, 2023 | Comedy, Fantasy, Film Reviews, My Favorites, New Releases, Queer Film/TV, Queer Film/TV
There is some good stuff here. Former N.F.L running back Marshawn Lynch gets some well-deserved laughs as the club’s faculty adviser.
Read Moreby Patrick | Aug 6, 2023 | Drama, Film Reviews, New Releases, Queer Film/TV, Romance
The second homo tryst is the sexiest and most graphic gay moment ever captured in a mainstream film.
Read Moreby Patrick | Aug 1, 2023 | Comedy, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, New Releases, Queer Film/TV
Min, playing a dislikeable character, manages to make Ben, if not exactly likable, then certainly sympathetic. Both Sherry Cola and Debby Ryan are superb.
Read Moreby Patrick | May 16, 2023 | Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Mystery, New Releases, Queer Film/TV
Pallaoro is blessed with two actresses who are able to convey oceans of emotion with their eyes and Lysette, a real-life trans actress, is wonderful.
Read Moreby Patrick | May 16, 2023 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, New Releases, Queer Film/TV, Romance, TV / Streaming
Laporte is tremendous in portraying a complex character who appears to have an “escape” but really doesn’t. It’s a heartbreaking performance.
Read Moreby Patrick | Jan 14, 2021 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Archival Posts, Documentary, Film Reviews, Genres, My Favorites, Pauline Kael, Queer Film/TV, TV / Streaming
The greatest movie critic of her generation. Pauline wrote the most incisive and respectful response. It was a gorgeous review of “Blade Runner”…
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 | 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 | Apr 2, 2023 | Archival Posts, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Queer Film/TV, Queer Film/TV
In the opening 45 minutes of “Close”, Belgian director Lukas Dhont captures an intimacy that is extraordinary in its delicacy.
Read Moreby Patrick | Jan 14, 2022 | Action, Archival Posts, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Mystery, Netflix, Queer Film/TV, Western
“The Power of the Dog” is one of the best films of 2021. Campion directs with an expert hand assisted by Ari Wegner’s cinematography and Jonny Greenwood’s memorable score.
Read Moreby Patrick | Aug 21, 2022 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Archival Posts, Comedy, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Horror, Mystery, Queer Film/TV, Thriller, TV / Streaming
Beautifully Queer friendly, the relationship between Bee (Maria Bakalova) and Sophiie (Amanda Stenberg) is the emotional center of the movie.
Read Moreby Patrick | May 9, 2022 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Archival Posts, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Queer Film/TV, Romance
Meise directs what must be some of the most beautiful and heartfelt scenes ever captured on film between two men in love.
Read Moreby Patrick | Jan 7, 2022 | Archival Posts, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Netflix, Queer Film/TV
You cannot take your eyes off Ruth Negga’s Claire, a Black woman who can pass for White in New York in 1929.
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 | Oct 23, 2022 | Apple TV+, Archival Posts, Comedy, Drama, Film Reviews, My Favorites, Queer Film/TV, Romance, TV / Streaming, Under Appreciated
Aamu Milonoff is exceptionally good, giving a beautifully grounded yet magical performance. The kind that makes you sit up and take notice.
Read Moreby Patrick | Nov 26, 2022 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Archival Posts, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Queer Film/TV, TV / Streaming
The revelation is Pope. Those big, beautiful, expressive eyes speak volumes and question volumes. A gay man, you can feel his star presence.
Read Moreby Patrick | Nov 23, 2021 | Archival Posts, Comedy, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Musicals, Netflix, Queer Film/TV
Although we know the eventual outcome, there is no great tragedy awaiting us at the end of the movie. In fact, it is a celebration of life.
Read Moreby Patrick | Dec 29, 2022 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Archival Posts, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Queer Film/TV, TV / Streaming
As Charlie, an overweight teacher, Brendan Fraser gives a very sweet and appealing performance in director Darren Aronofsky’s “The Whale”.
Read Moreby Patrick | Oct 8, 2022 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Archival Posts, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Queer Film/TV, Thriller, TV / Streaming
However, no one seems to have stopped and thought about the age difference between these two maestros. By my calculations, Lenny would have been teaching Lydia when she was five years old!
Read Moreby Patrick | Apr 9, 2022 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Archival Posts, Comedy, Drama, Film Reviews, HBO Max, Queer Film/TV, TV / Streaming
Finally, a toast, amid all this great food, to four extraordinarily talented actresses: Sennott, Draper, Gordon, and Argon.
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 5, 2022 | 70s | 80s | 90s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Drama, Gangster, Queer Film/TV
There will always be an argument as to who was the real auteur behind the camera.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 5, 2022 | 70s | 80s | 90s, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, My Favorites, Queer Film/TV, TV / Streaming, Under Appreciated, YouTube
Starring a luminous Carrie Snodgress, the last movie that director Frank Perry and his screenwriter wife Eleanor made together is their best.
Read Moreby Patrick | Oct 23, 2022 | 70s | 80s | 90s, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Queer Film/TV, Romance
Future gay activist Larry Kramer’s adaptation of D.H Lawrence’s 1920 novel was an enormous critical and commercial success earning four Oscar Nominations:
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 21, 2021 | 70s | 80s | 90s, Action, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Comedy, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, My Favorites, Queer Film/TV, Under Appreciated, Western
Hume Cronyn and John Randolph are our happy and well-adjusted gay couple. Yes, they fight and bicker all the time. However, they are clearly madly in love with each other.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 5, 2022 | 70s | 80s | 90s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Comedy, Drama, Queer Film/TV
As we saw in the 2020 remake, Mart Crowley’s play “The Boys in the Band” has stood the test of time beautifully.
Read Moreby Patrick | Apr 27, 2023 | 70s | 80s | 90s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Comedy, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, My Favorites, Mystery, Queer Film/TV, Queer Film/TV, Romance, Thriller, TV / Streaming
Excellent work by Robert Stephens (his best screen performance) and Colin Blakely (Dr. Watson). Geneviève Page gives a gorgeous melancholy performance.
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 5, 2022 | 70s | 80s | 90s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Drama, Queer Film/TV
Visconti’s best idea was changing Aschenbach’s profession from a writer to a composer opening up the movie to the Mahler Adagietto .
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 9, 2022 | 70s | 80s | 90s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Drama, Queer Film/TV
In “Sunday Bloody Sunday”, Murray Head plays a free-spirited bisexual who is having simultaneous relationships with Glenda Jackson and Peter Finch.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 9, 2022 | 70s | 80s | 90s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Drama, Queer Film/TV
A landmark in both New Queer Cinema and the New German Cinema, Fassbinder’s examination of the dynamics of a lesbian love triangle was shot in der wunderkind’s apartment.
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 | Sep 9, 2022 | 70s | 80s | 90s, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Queer Film/TV, TV / Streaming, YouTube
And then there Tillie’s other best friend Jimmy, the film’s token gay guy, played by René Auberjonois, who had one of the most memorable names in cinema.
Read Moreby Patrick | Jan 5, 2023 | 70s | 80s | 90s, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Queer Film/TV, TV / Streaming, YouTube
Unfortunately, despite a good performance by Weld, the film only comes alive when she is driving endlessly around LA’s spectacular freeways.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 9, 2022 | 70s | 80s | 90s, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Queer Film/TV, TV / Streaming, YouTube
Rita Walden, played beautifully by Joanne Woodward, in what is probably her best performance is about to go through a midlife crisis.
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 | Sep 9, 2022 | 70s | 80s | 90s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Cinematographers, Drama, My Favorites, Queer Film/TV, Romance
Directed by Jack Clayton, from an adaptation by Francis Ford Coppola, this was the third film version of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Jazz Age masterpiece.
Read Moreby Patrick | May 11, 2021 | 70s | 80s | 90s, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Masterpieces, My Favorites, Queer Film/TV
In “Jeanne Dielman”, a feminist masterpiece, the everyday details of a caring mother contrast with her life as a prostitute.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 10, 2022 | 70s | 80s | 90s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Comedy, Fantasy, Musicals, Queer Film/TV
It is, of course, a GROUP EXPERIENCE with those inspired zingers going back to the screen, composed by a generation of audience members over the years.
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 10, 2022 | 70s | 80s | 90s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Drama, Queer Film/TV
Why did Billy Joe McAllister jump off the Tallahassee Bridge? The answer, according to director Max Baer, is because he slept with a man.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 10, 2022 | 70s | 80s | 90s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Drama, Horror, Pauline Kael, Queer Film/TV, Thriller
Brian De Palma’s masterpiece and one of the GREAT HORROR MOVIES with tremendous performances from Sissy Spacek and Piper Laurie. The unforgettable score is by Pino Donaggio.
Read Moreby Patrick | Aug 11, 2022 | 70s | 80s | 90s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Drama, Genres, Masterpieces, My Favorites, Mystery, Queer Film/TV, Thriller
“Ripley”, Minghella’s masterpiece, boasts Matt Damon’s best performance plus stunning turns by Philip Seymour Hoffman and Jude Law.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 1, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Drama, Queer Film/TV
Bette Davis in her greatest role with some of the best lines ever written. Both Addison and Eve are gay and he blackmails her.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 1, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Drama, Queer Film/TV
“Hype the New Fish”. Innocent Eleanor Parker spends time in a women’s prison. With Hope Emerson and Agnes Moorehead.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 1, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Drama, Queer Film/TV
Lauren Bacall is Kirk Douglas’ young man with a horn’s society wife who is also a closeted lesbian. Bacall is very good in a risque role.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 10, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Drama, Queer Film/TV, Southern Gothic
The best play to film adaptation of all-time with two of the greatest performances: Vivien Leigh as Blanch DuBois and Marlon Brando as Stanley Kowalski.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 1, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Classic Film Noir, Drama, Film Noir, Film Reviews, Genres, Hitchcock, My Favorites, Queer Film/TV, Thriller, TV / Streaming, YouTube
Hitchcock reverses himself here, having gay actor Farley Granger play the straight character and straight actor Robert Walker play the gay character.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 10, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Comedy, Musicals, Queer Film/TV, Romance
It’s Howard Hawks again, this time adapting the Jule Stein/Leo Robin Broadway smash “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes”. With Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 10, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Action, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Drama, Queer Film/TV, Western
A Western with two female leads is that rarest of cinematic jewels and, under Nicholas Ray’s direction, both Crawford and McCambridge play to the gallery.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 10, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Drama, Queer Film/TV, Romance
Wood, Dean and Mineo form a nuclear family under the shadow of Griffith Park Observatory. Sal Mineo’s Plato is Hollywood’s first adolescent gay character.
Read MoreNancy Kelly is ON 100% of the time straddling the twin minefields of camp and drama yet managing to accomplish both simultaneously.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 10, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Drama, Queer Film/TV, Southern Gothic
The film’s central tenet is that Kyle (Oscar Nominee Robert Stack) and his ruthless sister Marylee (Oscar winner Dorothy Malone) lust after the same man.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 10, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Drama, Queer Film/TV
One of Deborah Kerr’s most sympathetic performances. Both she she and John Kerr (no relation) originated their roles on the Broadway stage.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 10, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Comedy, Drama, Musicals, Queer Film/TV, Romance
“Funny Face“, the 1957 musical romantic comedy directed by Stanley Donen, boasts Audrey Hepburn’s most charming screen performance.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 11, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Classic Film Noir, Drama, Film Noir, Gangster, Genres, My Favorites, Queer Film/TV, Thriller
Yes, that is Mercedes McCambridge as the unnamed lesbian gang leader getting her kicks while watching Janet Leigh getting roughed up in Welles’ other masterwork.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 11, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Comedy, Drama, Queer Film/TV
Gay director Morton DaCosta (his real name) directs like he is still in the theatre – he did better in his second and final visit to Hollywood with “The Music Man”.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 11, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Drama, Queer Film/TV, Southern Gothic
Richard Brooks respectable adaptation of the Tennessee Williams play opens with Brick (Paul Newman) pining and drinking in his bedroom for the memory of his best friend (read lover) Skipper.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 11, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Drama, Queer Film/TV
The movie is risible, its few pleasures come from Hepburn’s regal (but very nasty) mother who will do anything to protect her son’s memory.
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, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Comedy, Queer Film/TV
Hudson’s characters has a gay alter ego named “Rex” and supporting actors Tony Randall and Nick Allen are constantly brushing off the gay ceiling.
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, Drama, Queer Film/TV
A beautiful adaptation of the William Inge play directed by Delbert Mann from a great script by Harriet Frank Jr. and Irving Ravetch..
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 11, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Classic Film Noir, Drama, Film Noir, Film Reviews, Genres, Hitchcock, Horror, My Favorites, Mystery, Queer Film/TV, Road Movie, Thriller, TV / Streaming, YouTube
Anthony Perkins’ Norman Bates made him immortal while, at the same, time, ending his career in Hollywood. A masterpiece.
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, Apple TV+, Drama, Queer Film/TV
Although he was playing a teenager, gay actor Murray Melvin was almost thirty when he made “A Taste of Honey” with Rita Tushingham.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 11, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Drama, Queer Film/TV
Not having the courage of his convictions, what started out as bravery ended in cowardice and it’s a shame.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 11, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Drama, Queer Film/TV, Thriller
Preminger always liked to be cutting edge and he was with “Advise and Consent” a beautifully written, acted and directed movie.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 11, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Comedy, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Queer Film/TV
Both of Hollywood’s grande dames Bette Davis and Joan Crawford are in top form with Davis getting the showier role as faded child star Baby Jane Hudson.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 11, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Comedy, Queer Film/TV
In between the Rock Hudson movies “Lover Come Back” (1961) and “Send Me no Flowers” (1964), Doris Day paired up with Cary Grant.
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 11, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Cinematographers, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, My Favorites, Queer Film/TV, TV / Streaming, YouTube
Writer/director Bryan Forbes lovely and faithful adaptation of the Lynne Reid Banks novel boasts Leslie Caron’s greatest performance.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 11, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, BFI Classics, Cinematographers, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, My Favorites, Queer Film/TV, Thriller, TV / Streaming
A savage indictment of the waning British class system, it’s one of the most chilling films ever made. Winner of Best Screenplay of 1964 from the NYFCC.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 11, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Drama, Horror, Queer Film/TV
As a chic Greenwich village lesbian named Theo, whose couture is designed by Mary Quant, Claire Bloom is a knockout in Robert Wise’s 1963 movie “The Haunting”.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 11, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Classix, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Queer Film/TV, TV / Streaming
Canadian journeyman Sidney J. Furie, does a striking job with this “gay” love story set within the milieu of London’s biker subculture.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 11, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Comedy, Queer Film/TV, Uncategorized
Great fun was had by all adapting Evelyn Waugh’s 1948 short satirical novel about the funeral business in Los Angeles.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 11, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Amazon Prime Video, Drama, Queer Film/TV, Uncategorized
“Darling” stars the impossibly beautiful Julie Christie, even if far more people saw in her as Laura in David Lean’s “Doctor Zhivago”.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 11, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Internet Archive, Queer Film/TV, TV / Streaming
“My Hustler” is a hugely different film from Warhol’s previous offerings with a solid narrative and surprisingly good performances.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 11, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Drama, Mystery, Queer Film/TV
Two of the world’s greatest actresses under the gaze of one of the greatest movie directors the world has ever known.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 11, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Drama, Queer Film/TV, Southern Gothic
John Huston’s favorite of all his movies. Brando does something amazing with his closeted gay character who is married to Elizabeth Taylor.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 12, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Criterion Collection, Documentary, Film Reviews, Genres, Queer Film/TV, TV / Streaming
A true breakthrough and a film that has improved with age. Documentary filmmaker Shirley Clarke interviews gay African American hustler and aspiring cabaret performer Jason Holliday in his apartment at the Hotel Chelsea.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 12, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Drama, Queer Film/TV
“The Fox” does interesting things with color saturation (Bill Fraker) and the Lalo Schifrin score has entered the jazz canon.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 12, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Drama, Queer Film/TV, Thriller
“Dorian”, Gill’s hairdresser persona is, of course, gay with a classic sibilant-rich delivery. In the movie’s best scene, just as he is caressing the neck of his intended victim Miss Belle Poppie…
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 12, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Drama, Mystery, Queer Film/TV, Thriller
However, the awful script by Abby Mann – “Judgement at Nuremberg” – and the mediocre direction by Gordon Douglas put the kibosh on everything.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 11, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Queer Film/TV, Science Fiction
In Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey”, HAL 9000 is the psychotic gay computer abord Discovery One. HAL is in love with Dave and quickly dispatches with copilot Frank.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 12, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Kino Lorber, Queer Film/TV, TV / Streaming
Beryl Reid is marvelous as “George”. That’s not her name. It’s the name of the character she plays in a beloved long-running BBC series.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 12, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Drama, Queer Film/TV
Highly regarded at the time of its release (NYFCC awards going to Newman as Best Director and Woodward as Best Actress), it seems a bit underwhelming today.
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 11, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Queer Film/TV, TV / Streaming, YouTube
On the stage Dyer may have been trying to project two sides of his own personality. However, any such subtlety is lost in translation.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 11, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Drama, Queer Film/TV
John Schlesinger’s American debut is only X-rated movie to win Best Picture. It boasts two great performances courtesy of Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffmann.
Read Moreby Patrick | Mar 25, 2023 | 50s | 60s, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Queer Film/TV, Romance
The Queer element in the film comes from Brenda’s older brother Ron. Ron has the hots for Neil (Richard Benjamin) who he keeps inviting back to his room.
Read Moreby Patrick | Aug 31, 2022 | 30s | 40s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Comedy, Drama, Horror, Queer Film/TV
Director James Whale’s masterpiece is as close to Susan Sontag’s definition of high camp as the movies can deliver.
Read Moreby Patrick | Aug 31, 2022 | 30s | 40s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Comedy, Film Reviews, Genres, Musicals, Queer Film/TV, Romance
The Best of the Astaire-Rogers movies. Cinematography: David Abel. Production Design: Carroll Clark/Van Nest Polglase. Songs: Irving Berlin.
Read Moreby Patrick | Aug 31, 2022 | 30s | 40s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Comedy, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Queer Film/TV
Both gay and trans, Sylvia/Sylvester set the bar impossibly high for years to come. One of the great financial disasters of the 1930s, it resulted in Hepburn being labelled box office poison.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 1, 2022 | 30s | 40s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Comedy, Drama, Film Reviews, Queer Film/TV
Every character in the movie, and every animal featured, was female. Great work by Crawford, Russell, Shearer and Mary Boland.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 1, 2022 | 30s | 40s, Action, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Genres, Musicals, Queer Film/TV
She captured everyone’s heart, gay or straight. There is something vulnerable yet confident about her. And then there is that incredible voice!
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 1, 2022 | 30s | 40s, Classic Film Noir, Drama, Film Noir, Film Reviews, Genres, Hitchcock, My Favorites, Mystery, Queer Film/TV, Thriller, TV / Streaming, YouTube
“Rebecca”, marked the arrival in Hollywood of the man who was, or would eventually become, the greatest director in the history of cinema.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 1, 2022 | 30s | 40s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Classic Film Noir, Drama, Film Noir, Film Reviews, Gangster, Mystery, Queer Film/TV, Thriller
The performances are there to savor with the great Mary Astor doing a superb turn as Bridget O’ Shaughnessy and the gay triumvirate bringing up the rear!
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 1, 2022 | 30s | 40s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Comedy, Queer Film/TV
Monty Wooley delights as the impossibly pompous Sheridan Whiteside in William Keighley’s wonderful adaptation of the Kauffman/Hart play.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 1, 2022 | 30s | 40s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Classic Film Noir, Drama, Film Noir, Film Reviews, Genres, Queer Film/TV, Romance, Thriller
“Double Indemnity” is the best of the three great film noirs of 1944, the others being “Laura” and “The Woman in the Window”. The three leads are superb as is Wilder’s direction.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 1, 2022 | 30s | 40s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Classic Film Noir, Drama, Film Noir, Mystery, Queer Film/TV, Romance, Thriller
“Laura” is one of the classic film noirs. Gene Tierney is born and Clifton Webb becomes a star in his fifties. Haunting Raksin score.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 1, 2022 | 30s | 40s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Drama, Mystery, Queer Film/TV, Thriller
Albert Lewin directed his masterpiece, a superb adaptation of Oscar Wild’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray” with a beautiful Hurd Hatfield.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 1, 2022 | 30s | 40s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Classic Film Noir, Drama, Film Noir, Gangster, Mystery, Queer Film/TV, Thriller
Feast your eyes on Vidor’s stylish direction, Rudolph Mate lush black-and-white cinematography the Jean Louis gowns and, of course, Rita Hayworth as Gilda.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 1, 2022 | 30s | 40s, Action, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Queer Film/TV, Western
1948 was the year of Montgomery Clift. In addition to Hawkes “Red River” there was Fred Zinnemann’s “The Search” and William Wyler’s “The Heiress”.
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.
Read Moreby Patrick | Jan 23, 2022 | 30s | 40s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Comedy, Drama, Film Reviews, Masterpieces, My Favorites, Queer Film/TV, Thriller
In “Kind Hearts and Coronets”: Alec Guinness has fun playing all eight (or nine) of the unfortunate D’Ascoynes, including Lady Agatha D’Ascoyne. The photograph shows Dennis Price with Joan Greenwood who plays that little minx Sibella.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 1, 2022 | 30s | 40s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Comedy, Drama, Queer Film/TV
Marvelous acting by Judy Holliday, Jean Hagen, Hope Emerson, Tom Ewell and, as Amanda’s “gay best friend”, David Wayne.
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