Joni Mitchell – Painting with Words and Music A+
Joni dazzles in the best of her three live albums. It helps that the show is built around “Hejira”. Of the 19 tracks, 4 are from this album.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Dec 31, 2021 | A+, Amazon, Apple TV+, Documentary, Featured, Film Music | LA Music Scene, LA Music Scene, Ratings: Movies and Television, Streaming, YouTube
Joni dazzles in the best of her three live albums. It helps that the show is built around “Hejira”. Of the 19 tracks, 4 are from this album.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Aug 12, 2025 | Apple TV+, B+, Film Reviews, New Releases - Film, Queer Film, Queer Film/TV, Ratings: Movies and Television
Director Michael Pearce moves with visceral precision and Julianne Moore shows us, yet again, what a magnificent actress she can be.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Jan 1, 2024 | A+, Amazon, Apple TV+, Documentary, Ratings: Movies and Television, Streaming, YouTube
Director/Editor Madeleine Gavin masterfully combines these two storylines with some astonishing insights into what it’s like to live in North Korea
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Aug 1, 2023 | A+, Amazon, Apple TV+, Documentary, HBOMAX, Queer Film/TV, Queer TV, Ratings: Movies and Television, Streaming
Caronna gives these five men back their dignity, something they were stripped of when they became victims of a horrific crime.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | May 23, 2024 | A+, Amazon, Apple TV+, Criterion Collection, Documentary, Queer Film, Queer Film/TV, Queer TV, Ratings: Movies and Television, Streaming, YouTube
After its release, the film’s high campness – a tragic story set in the faded milieu of New York high society – developed a significant gay following.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Aug 12, 2025 | A-, Apple TV+, Documentary, Film Music | LA Music Scene, LA Music Scene, Ratings: Movies and Television, Streaming
The man, on stage, in Naples, without the rest of his U2 bandmates, is in a great voice and equally fine storytelling form.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Dec 30, 2023 | A, Amazon, Apple TV+, Documentary, Ratings: Movies and Television, Streaming, YouTube
Photographer/filmmaker Anton Corbijn has directed a hugely enjoyable documentary about Hipgnosis, the duo who revolutionized the album cover as an art form.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Aug 25, 2023 | Amazon, Apple TV+, B+, Documentary, HBOMAX, Ratings: Movies and Television, Streaming
American high school/college football is one big exploitation racket that massively exploits the young men on whose backs the whole system rests.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Oct 12, 2023 | Amazon, Apple TV+, B+, Documentary, HBOMAX, Ratings: Movies and Television, Streaming
Known “the first Black supermodel”, she was the first African-American model to grace the cover of Vogue – shot by photographer David Bailey – in March 1966.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Jan 14, 2021 | Amazon, Apple TV+, B-, Documentary, Ratings: Movies and Television, Streaming, YouTube
The greatest movie critic of her generation. Pauline wrote the most incisive and respectful response. It was a gorgeous review of “Blade Runner”…
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Apr 16, 2022 | A+, Apple TV+, Hulu, Ratings: Movies and Television, Streaming, Television
Amanda Seyfried is simply amazing. She gets Holmes’s uncomfortable stare and that otherworldly voice. But we also get Holmes as a real person.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Nov 13, 2023 | A+, Amazon, Apple TV+, Paramount+, Ratings: Movies and Television, Streaming, Television
Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie’s brilliant “The Curse” brings out the masochist in me. Thanks to the genius of Emma Stone, it’s essential viewing
Read MorePosted by Patrick | May 30, 2022 | A+, Amazon, Apple TV+, HBOMAX, Queer Film/TV, Queer TV, Ratings: Movies and Television, Streaming, Television, YouTube
The result: compulsive viewing for seven out of the eight episodes. Colin Firth is spellbinding. Toni Collette is equally superb.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Dec 29, 2021 | A+, Amazon, Apple TV+, Hulu, Queer Film/TV, Queer TV, Ratings: Movies and Television, Television, YouTube
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 MorePosted by Patrick | Mar 14, 2022 | A+, Apple TV+, HBOMAX, Ratings: Movies and Television, Streaming, Television
Laura Dern is a card-carrying liberal from Riverside. who wants to do good in this world but gets sidetracked by some deep personality flaws
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Aug 25, 2023 | Amazon, Apple TV+, B, Queer Film/TV, Queer TV, Ratings: Movies and Television, Streaming, Television
Nicholas Galitzine, as Prince Harry, gives a perfect performance. Utterly believable. He’s the ONLY reason to see this. But he is reason enough!
Read MorePosted by Patrick | May 9, 2023 | 2023, A-, Amazon, Apple TV+, Film Reviews, Ratings: Movies and Television, Streaming, YouTube
We also discover, in a beautifully acted scene by McAdams, who steals the picture, that Barbara is estranged from her devoutly Christian parents.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Dec 8, 2023 | 2023, A, Amazon, Apple TV+, Film Reviews, Queer Film, Queer Film/TV, Ratings: Movies and Television, Streaming, YouTube
Oldroyd pulls out all the stops and the three actresses complement one another so perfectly that we end up savoring 2023’s best scene.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Nov 23, 2023 | 2023, A+, Apple TV+, Film Reviews, MUBI, Ratings: Movies and Television
The leads are just about perfect, and the film is enlivened at every turn by the director’s usual penchant for deadpan humor.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Oct 26, 2023 | 2023, A+, Amazon, Apple TV+, Criterion Collection, Film Reviews, Queer Film, Queer Film/TV, Ratings: Movies and Television
Pálmason, his cinematographer (Maria von Hausswolff), and his composer (Alex Zhang Hungtai) evoke colonial memories reminiscent of films like “Black Robe”.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Nov 6, 2023 | 2023, A-, Amazon, Apple TV+, Film Reviews, MUBI, Queer Film, Queer Film/TV, Ratings: Movies and Television, Streaming
“How to Have Sex” follows three teenage girls on vacation in Greece. Mia McKenna-Bruce delivers a heartbreaking performance as Tara. One of 2023’s best.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Sep 28, 2022 | 2023, Amazon, Apple TV+, B+, Film Reviews, Queer Film, Queer Film/TV, Ratings: Movies and Television, Streaming, YouTube
Doug Stanhope is “The Road Dog” of the title in writer/director Greg Glienna’s inspired blend of the road movie and stand-up comedy.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Nov 1, 2023 | 2023, A, Amazon, Apple TV+, Film Reviews, Queer Film, Queer Film/TV, Ratings: Movies and Television, Streaming
Fennell’s writing and directing are brilliantly inventive, with humor, tragedy, and horror mixing perfectly. She gets immense support from her cinematographer, Linus Sandgren, whose work here is truly breathtaking.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Aug 1, 2023 | 2023, Amazon, Apple TV+, B+, Film Reviews, Queer Film, Queer Film/TV, Ratings: Movies and Television, Streaming, YouTube
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 MorePosted by Patrick | May 14, 2023 | 2023, Amazon, Apple TV+, B+, Film Reviews, Ratings: Movies and Television, Streaming, YouTube
If you can take moments of extreme gore and disfigurement – it succeeds more as a horror movie than as a piece of social satire – you could do worse.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | May 16, 2023 | 2023, A-, Amazon, Apple TV+, Film Reviews, Queer Film, Ratings: Movies and Television, Streaming, YouTube
Laporte is tremendous in portraying a complex character who appears to have an “escape” but really doesn’t. It’s a heartbreaking performance.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Aug 21, 2022 | 2022, A-, Amazon, Apple TV+, Film Reviews, Queer Film, Ratings: Movies and Television, Streaming, YouTube
Beautifully Queer friendly, the relationship between Bee (Maria Bakalova) and Sophiie (Amanda Stenberg) is the emotional center of the movie.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Nov 6, 2022 | 2022, A, Apple TV+, Film Reviews, Queer Film, Ratings: Movies and Television, Streaming, YouTube
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 MorePosted by Patrick | Aug 23, 2022 | 2022, A, Amazon, Apple TV+, Film Reviews, Ratings: Movies and Television, Streaming, YouTube
Plaza’s performance is something to behold. All of that nervous energy is now bursting out in a performance that is always true and believable.
Read MorePosted by Patrick | Oct 23, 2022 | 2022, Amazon, Apple TV+, B+, Film Reviews, Queer Film, Ratings: Movies and Television, Streaming, YouTube
Aamu Milonoff is exceptionally good, giving a beautifully grounded yet magical performance. The kind that makes you sit up and take notice.
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