Mrs. America (2020) – Mini Series Review
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 | 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 | 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 29, 2023 | Apple TV+, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, New Releases, Romance, Science Fiction, TV / Streaming
The cast seems to be at a loss, with only Jessie Buckley retaining a small amount of her natural intelligence and dignity.
Read Moreby Patrick | May 16, 2023 | Apple TV+, Documentary, Documentary, Film Reviews, Genres, TV / Streaming
The immaculate comedic timing is still there, only now it unfolds at a slower pace, as Michael’s brain attempts to reach the rest of his body.
Read Moreby Patrick | Jan 14, 2021 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Archival Posts, Documentary, 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 | Oct 12, 2023 | Apple TV+, Documentary, Film Reviews, Genres, New Releases, TV / Streaming
For me, there were two glaring unanswered questions: The first is how differently Christy is treated relative to Naomi, Cindy, and Linda.
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 | Jun 26, 2023 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Genres, Horror, Hulu, Masterpieces, My Favorites, TV / Streaming
Pearl is the first part of writer/director Ti West’s horror trilogy and Mia Goth gives one of the definitive horror performances.
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 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 | 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 | Jul 28, 2022 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Archival Posts, Horror, Masterpieces, Mystery, Science Fiction, Thriller
Guys with erect penises walking downward into a transparent ooze, confused, as Scarlett walks on another level above them.
Read Moreby Patrick | Jul 27, 2022 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Archival Posts, Drama, Film Reviews, Horror, Masterpieces, Mystery, Science Fiction, Thriller
It boasts a tremendous performance by Michael Shannon as a quiet man, raising a family, who has horrific nightmares and daytime visions of a meteorological disturbance followed by a feeling that we (the Earth) are being visited by something alien.
Read Moreby Patrick | Jan 3, 2023 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Archival Posts, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, TV / Streaming
“Aftersun” is unforgettable movie. Proustian, in that it is both a remembrance of things past and a search of lost time, it’s one of the best films of 2022.
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 | Aug 23, 2022 | Action, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Archival Posts, Drama, Film Reviews, Gangster, Genres, Thriller, TV / Streaming
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 Moreby Patrick | May 14, 2022 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Archival Posts, Drama, Film Reviews
The weeks pass and Anne begins to “show'”. Time is running out. Any attempt at a back street abortion is becoming increasingly dangerous.
Read Moreby Patrick | Jan 6, 2022 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Archival Posts, Drama, Film Reviews, Mystery, Road Movie
As Yusuke drives into Hiroshima, the opening credits’ role forty minutes into the film. We realize that what we have seen so far is just a prelude to the main story.
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 | 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 | May 16, 2023 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Archival Posts, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, 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 | 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 | Mar 17, 2023 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Archival Posts, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres
D’Ambrose direction is reminiscent of John Cassavetes. He places his camera and lets the action unfold as his actors enter and exit the scene.
Read Moreby Patrick | Jan 3, 2023 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Archival Posts, Comedy, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, HBO Max, Horror, Hulu, Thriller, TV / Streaming
There is a fantastic faceoff between Fiennes and a mysterious guest who was not invited. She is played by the extraordinary Anna Taylor-Joy
Read Moreby Patrick | May 1, 2022 | Action, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Archival Posts, Drama, Epic, Film Reviews
The directors are extremely cine-literate. However, their references never seemed forced and I basked in their cinematic vision.
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 | Jan 3, 2023 | Action, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Archival Posts, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Thriller, TV / Streaming
But the movie belongs to Newton who gives the best performance of her career here. We are completely in her spell.
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 | 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 | Nov 4, 2022 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Archival Posts, Film Reviews, Genres, Horror, Thriller, TV / Streaming
A marvelous performance by Maika Monroe, who shares with her namesake a beauty and star quality that gives any movie in which she appears a touch of class.
Read Moreby Patrick | Dec 27, 2021 | Action, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Archival Posts, Drama, Epic, Fantasy, Film Reviews, Mystery
David Lowery’s enthralling “The Green Knight”. Alicia Vikander does double duty as a peasant girl, and the mistress of a mysterious household.
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 14, 2023 | Apple TV+, Archival Posts, Comedy, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller, TV / Streaming
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 Moreby Patrick | Apr 29, 2022 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Archival Posts, Drama, Film Reviews, Road Movie
The film begins with one of the most memorable opening scenes in recent memory. It’s a glorious and inventive piece of true cinema magic.
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 | Dec 29, 2021 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Archival Posts, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, TV / Streaming
Collins and Parker have a wonderful rapport based on their shared love of horses, and there might be something deeper between them.
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 27, 2021 | Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Archival Posts, Comedy, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres
Jess Wexler and Joshua Leonard have such a natural chemistry that I assumed that they were a couple in real-life.
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 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 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 | 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 | 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+, 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 15, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Classic Film Noir, Drama, Film Noir, Mystery, Thriller, TV / Streaming
The buildup to Monroe’s superstardom started here. The magnificent widescreen technicolor cinematography if by Joseph MacDonald.
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 | 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, YouTube
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, 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 | 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, YouTube
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 | 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 | 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, YouTube
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 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, 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, 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 | 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 | Aug 31, 2022 | 50s | 60s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Drama, Film Reviews, Masterpieces, Thriller, TV / Streaming
A peak entry in the American political thriller genre, the film boasts four of the greatest performances of the sixties.
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, 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 22, 2023 | 50s | 60s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres, Queer Film/TV, Queer Film/TV
A movie to be seen AT A MIDNIGHT SCREENING WITH A GAY CROWD, – a GROUP experience. Do not see this movie on your own.
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, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Drama, Epic, Mystery, Under Appreciated
With a near-great performance by Burt Lancaster as the title character who “swims his way home” through his “river” of backyard swimming pools…
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, 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, 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 | 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 | 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+, 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, 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 | Oct 5, 2022 | 30s | 40s, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, Classic Film Noir, Drama, Film Noir, Hitchcock, Mystery, Thriller, TV / Streaming, YouTube
Alfred Hitchcock, the cinema’s greatest director, made seven perfect films in which every shot, every camera move, every editing sequence is, well, perfect.
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 | Oct 6, 2022 | 30s | 40s, Apple TV+, Classic Film Noir, Drama, Film Noir, Hitchcock, My Favorites, Mystery, Romance, Thriller, TV / Streaming, YouTube
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 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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