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Mrs. America (2020) – Mini Series Review A+

Posted by Patrick | Dec 29, 2021 | A+, Apple TV+ Amazon, Drama, Genres (Action - Music Scene), Genres (Musical-Western), Historic Events, Hulu, Politics, Queer Film/TV, Queer Film/TV, Ratings: Movies and Television, 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.

The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) Film Review A+

Posted by Patrick | Oct 21, 2022 | A+, Apple TV+ Amazon, Archival Posts, Comedy, Drama, Favorites, Film Reviews, Genres (Action - Music Scene), Historic Events, Hulu, Masterpieces, Max, Ratings: Movies and Television, 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.

Flee (2021) Film Review A+

Posted by Patrick | Dec 28, 2021 | A+, Action, Apple TV+ Amazon, Archival Posts, Documentary, Drama, Epic, Favorites, Film Reviews, Genres (Action - Music Scene), Genres (Musical-Western), Historic Events, Masterpieces, Queer Film/TV, Queer Film/TV, Ratings: Movies and Television, Thriller, TV / Streaming |

I left “Flee” with that “floating-on-air feeling” that you get after seeing something special. After seeing a masterpiece.

Quo Vadis Aida (2020) Film Review A+

Posted by Patrick | Dec 27, 2021 | A+, Apple TV+ Amazon, Archival Posts, Drama, Favorites, Film Reviews, Genres (Action - Music Scene), Genres (Musical-Western), Historic Events, Hulu, Masterpieces, Ratings: Movies and Television, Thriller, TV / Streaming, Underappreciated |

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.

Take Shelter (2011) Film Review A+

Posted by Patrick | Jul 27, 2022 | A+, Apple TV+ Amazon, Archival Posts, Drama, Favorites, Film Reviews, Genres (Action - Music Scene), Horror, Masterpieces, Mystery, Ratings: Movies and Television, Science Fiction, Thriller, TV / Streaming, Underappreciated |

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.

The Power of the Dog (2021) Film Review A

Posted by Patrick | Jan 14, 2022 | A, Action, Archival Posts, Drama, Epic, Film Reviews, Genres (Action - Music Scene), Mystery, Netflix, Queer Film/TV, Queer Film/TV, Ratings: Movies and Television, TV / Streaming, 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.

Spencer (2021) Film Review A

Posted by Patrick | Jan 3, 2022 | A, Apple TV+ Amazon, Archival Posts, Drama, Favorites, Film Reviews, Genres (Action - Music Scene), Genres (Musical-Western), Historic Events, Hulu, Queer Film/TV, Queer Film/TV, Ratings: Movies and Television, TV / Streaming |

Stewart is simply amazing in the role channeling all that star power into a Diana, you feel you know instantly.

The Tale of King Crab (2022) Film Review A-

Posted by Patrick | May 1, 2022 | A-, Action, Apple TV+ Amazon, Archival Posts, Drama, Epic, Favorites, Film Reviews, Genres (Action - Music Scene), Genres (Musical-Western), Mystery, Ratings: Movies and Television, Thriller, TV / Streaming, Underappreciated, Western |

The directors are extremely cine-literate. However, their references never seemed forced and I basked in their cinematic vision.

Passing (2021) Film Review A-

Posted by Patrick | Jan 7, 2022 | A-, Archival Posts, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres (Action - Music Scene), Netflix, Queer Film/TV, Queer Film/TV, Ratings: Movies and Television, TV / Streaming |

You cannot take your eyes off Ruth Negga’s Claire, a Black woman who can pass for White in New York in 1929.

Dance of the Forty-One (2020) Film Review A-

Posted by Patrick | Dec 27, 2021 | A-, Archival Posts, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres (Action - Music Scene), Genres (Musical-Western), Historic Events, Netflix, Queer Film/TV, Queer Film/TV, Ratings: Movies and Television, TV / Streaming, Underappreciated |

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.

Dear Comrades (2020) Film Review A-

Posted by Patrick | Dec 27, 2021 | Apple TV+ Amazon, Archival Posts, Drama, Favorites, Film Reviews, Genres (Action - Music Scene), Historic Events, TV / Streaming, Underappreciated |

Andrei Konchalovsky’s Searing Indictment of a little-known Khrushchev Era Massacre is his best work in years.

Undine (2020) Film Review A-

Posted by Patrick | Dec 27, 2021 | A-, Apple TV+ Amazon, Archival Posts, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres (Action - Music Scene), Hulu, Mystery, Ratings: Movies and Television, Romance, TV / Streaming, Underappreciated |

Christian Petzold’s direction is so seductive, and the two leads are so effective, that you fall easily for “Undine’s” charms.

The Green Knight (2021) Film Review B+

Posted by Patrick | Dec 27, 2021 | Action, Apple TV+ Amazon, Archival Posts, Drama, Epic, 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.

The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021) Film Review B+

Posted by Patrick | Dec 26, 2021 | Action, Apple TV+ Amazon, Archival Posts, B+, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres (Action - Music Scene), Horror, Mystery, Ratings: Movies and Television, TV / Streaming |

“The Tragedy of Macbeth” is filled with brilliant touches. The major reason to see this movie is Kathryn Hunter who plays all three witches.

Jockey (2021) Film Review B

Posted by Patrick | Dec 29, 2021 | Apple TV+ Amazon, Archival Posts, B, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres (Action - Music Scene), Ratings: Movies and Television, TV / Streaming |

Collins and Parker have a wonderful rapport based on their shared love of horses, and there might be something deeper between them.

Tick, tick…Boom! (2021) Film Review B

Posted by Patrick | Nov 23, 2021 | Archival Posts, B, Comedy, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres (Action - Music Scene), Music Biography, Music Scene, 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.

Fully Realized Humans (2020) Film Review B-

Posted by Patrick | Dec 27, 2021 | Apple TV+ Amazon, Archival Posts, B-, Comedy, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres (Action - Music Scene), Genres (Musical-Western), Ratings: Movies and Television, Romance, TV / Streaming |

Jess Wexler and Joshua Leonard have such a natural chemistry that I assumed that they were a couple in real-life.

Pieces of a Woman (2020) Film Review C+

Posted by Patrick | Jan 13, 2021 | Apple TV+ Amazon, Archival Posts, C+, Drama, Film Reviews, Genres (Action - Music Scene), Netflix, Ratings: Movies and Television, TV / Streaming |

How can an actress who is pushing ninety be the mother of an actress in her late twenties or early thirties? Not impossible, but implausible.

The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) Film Review A+

Posted by Patrick | Aug 11, 2022 | 70s | 80s | 90s, A+, Apple TV+ Amazon, Drama, Favorites, Film Reviews, Genres (Action - Music Scene), Genres (Musical-Western), Masterpieces, Mystery, Queer Film/TV, Queer Film/TV, Ratings: Movies and Television, Thriller, TV / Streaming |

“Ripley”, Minghella’s masterpiece, boasts Matt Damon’s best performance plus stunning turns by Philip Seymour Hoffman and Jude Law.

Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) Film Review A+

Posted by Patrick | Aug 11, 2022 | 70s | 80s | 90s, A-, Apple TV+ Amazon, Drama, Favorites, Film Reviews, Genres (Action - Music Scene), Historic Events, Horror, Masterpieces, Mystery, Ratings: Movies and Television |

Weir, who showed, like Hitchcock, that horror can be visited upon us on the brightest and most beautiful of summer days.

There Was A Crooked Man (1970) Film Review B+

Posted by Patrick | Sep 21, 2021 | 70s | 80s | 90s, Action, Apple TV+ Amazon, B+, Comedy, Drama, Favorites, Film Reviews, Genres (Action - Music Scene), Genres (Musical-Western), Hitchcock and other great movie directors, Queer Film/TV, Ratings: Movies and Television, TV / Streaming, Underappreciated, 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.

Bonjour Tristesse (1957) The French Critics Adored Jean Seberg B+

Posted by Patrick | May 15, 2021 | 50s | 60s, Apple TV+ Amazon, B+, Drama, Favorites, Film Reviews, Genres (Action - Music Scene), Genres (Musical-Western), Mystery, Ratings: Movies and Television, Romance, Thriller, TV / Streaming, Underappreciated |

Unlike their American counterparts, the French critics, among whom were the brightest stars of the New Wave, in particular Truffaut and Goddard, were full of praise for the film.

Dodsworth (1936) Film Review A+

Posted by Patrick | Jan 17, 2022 | 30s | 40s, A+, Apple TV+ Amazon, Drama, Favorites, Film Reviews, Genres (Action - Music Scene), Genres (Musical-Western), Masterpieces, Ratings: Movies and Television, Romance, Underappreciated |

“Dodsworth”: William Wyler’s masterpiece, the best movie ever made about the fear of growing old. It was Wyler’s first Oscar nomination.

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