West Side Story (2021) Film Review
West Side Story is Spielberg’s Triumph! Of course, it is Anita who is the real star of the movie and Ariana DeBose is astonishing.
Read Moreby Patrick | Dec 13, 2021 | Action, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Archival Posts, Drama, Film Reviews, Gangster, Genres, Musicals, Romance
West Side Story is Spielberg’s Triumph! Of course, it is Anita who is the real star of the movie and Ariana DeBose is astonishing.
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 | Feb 3, 2022 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Archival Posts, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Romance, TV / Streaming
Time stands still as Julie leaves Aksel, frozen in the kitchen as he pours her a cup of coffee, and runs through the streets of daytime Oslo.
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 | 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 | Dec 27, 2021 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Archival Posts, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Hulu, Mystery, Romance
Christian Petzold’s direction is so seductive, and the two leads are so effective, that you fall easily for “Undine’s” charms.
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 | 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 | Nov 25, 2022 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Archival Posts, Drama, Fantasy, Film Reviews, Horror, Mystery, Queer Film/TV, Road Movie, Romance, TV / Streaming
Eventually it becomes impossible to feel anything for our unhappy couple, not least because Guadagnino keeps shifting the moral and ethical ground rules.
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 | Dec 2, 2022 | Apple TV+, Archival Posts, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Historic Events, 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 | 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 | Jan 17, 2022 | 30s | 40s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Drama, Genres, Masterpieces, Romance
“Dodsworth”: William Wyler’s masterpiece, the best movie ever made about the fear of growing old. It was Wyler’s first Oscar nomination.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 1, 2022 | 30s | 40s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Classic Film Noir, Drama, Film Noir, 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 | Oct 6, 2022 | 30s | 40s, Apple TV+, Classic Film Noir, Drama, Film Noir, Hitchcock, My Favorites, Mystery, Romance, Thriller, TV / Streaming, You Tube
The term “MacGuffin” originated by Angus MacPhail for film, adopted by Alfred Hitchcock, and later extended to a similar device in other fiction. The MacGuffin here is the Uranium in the cellar.
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 | Oct 6, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Classic Film Noir, Drama, Film Noir, Film Reviews, Genres, Hitchcock, My Favorites, Mystery, Romance, Thriller, TV / Streaming, You Tube
Stewart, Kelly, and Ritter are all magnificent. Kelly, looking radiant, gets to deliver one of the big screen’s all-time sexy lines.
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 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 | Oct 6, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Classic Film Noir, Drama, Film Noir, Film Reviews, Genres, Hitchcock, Mystery, Romance, Thriller, TV / Streaming, You Tube
Anchored by an incredible performance by James Stewart as Scotty Ferguson a private detective and ex-cop who suffers from vertigo (fear of heights) after a coworker fell to his death, and Kim Novak is spectacular in the dual role of Judy/Madeleine.
Read Moreby Patrick | Oct 6, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Action, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Classic Film Noir, Drama, Film Noir, Film Reviews, Gangster, Genres, Hitchcock, My Favorites, Mystery, Romance, Thriller, TV / Streaming, You Tube
Eva Marie Saint gives Grace Kelly in “Rear Window” a run for her money as Hitchcock’s most elegant leading lady and the chemistry between the two leads is more palpable than in any Hollywood picture before or since.
Read Moreby Patrick | Sep 12, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Criterion Collection, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, My Favorites, Romance, TV / Streaming, Under Appreciated
In fact, many of Theodore Isaac Rubin’s beliefs have now fallen out of favor. Despite the film’s sensitive moments, it often seems dangerously simplistic and naive.
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 | 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 | 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 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.
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