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Movie Review: Cumming and Kin “Drive Back Home” in The Bad Ol’Days for Canada’s Gays
“Drive Back Home” is a road comedy with a queer history subtext and a hard, melodramatic flourish saved for its finale. It’s about a prodigal son and an estranged family that he fled the moment he was old enough to … Continue reading
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Tagged alan-cumming, canadian-homosexual-persecution, film, gay-rights, movie-review, movies, queer-cinema, Reviews, stonewall
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Documentary Review: Intentionally forgotten Lebanon — “Do You Love Me”
In Lebanon, an opening title tells us, “contemporary history is not taught in schools.” Basically, a half century of intermittent bloody unrest has been erased. The endless Israeli incursions and invasions? The civil war Israel triggered with the refugee dislocations … Continue reading
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Tagged beirut, documentary, film, israel, lebanon, middle-east, movies, Reviews
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Movie Review: “Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan: Ghost War”
These are not the days for “Patriot Games.” The world we live in’s realities long ago outstripped Tom Clancy’s post-Cold War fantasies of a righteous but compromised America and the West and the mythic “surgical strikes” it takes to keep … Continue reading
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Tagged film, jack-ryan, krasinski, movies, Reviews, sienna-miller, tom-clancy
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Netflixable? Dios Mio! Dazzling “I Am Frankelda” loses the Plot
The cotton tufts of simulated fog that roll into the stop-motion animated terrors of “I Am Frankelda” can resemble hands of the damned frantically reaching up from the depths of whatever lies below. Vividly-colored sets filled with whimsical human (ish) … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Douglas and Morse reminisce about Belize, “Looking Through Water”
The best most screen actors can hope for in their dotage is roles that don’t embarrass or seem beneath them. The lucky ones land a decent scripted series or a challenging supporting role on the big screen. But too many … Continue reading
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Tagged belize, cameron-douglas, family, film, fly-fishing, michael-douglas, movies
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Classic Film Review: Life Lived on the Margins on an Island off Ireland — “Man of Aran” (1934)
Hard lives the way they used to be lived are the subject of documentarian Robert Flaherty’s classic “Man of Aran,” a fictional film capturing the traditions of the past on Ireland’s Aran Islands in the 1930s. A black and white … Continue reading
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Tagged aran-islands, classic-film, famous-documentary, film, ireland-film, movies, news, writing
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Book Review: A Star Director Remembered in his Own Words — “Sydney Pollack: Collected Interviews”
I’m really enjoying and learning a lot about the celebrated, Oscar-winning director Sydney Pollack through the assorted journalist interviews, public Q & As and filmmaker-to-filmmaker chats gathered in “Sydney Pollack: Collected Interviews. “ This University Press of Kentucky publication reminds … Continue reading
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Movie Review: Beware the “Backrooms” of Your Worst Nightmares
Here’s a thriller that Maurice Escher could have production designed, with Salvador Dalí decorating the sets and Stanley Kubrick behind the camera directing. Not that Youtube phenom turned horror filmmaker Kane Parsons is the new Kubrick. But in turning his … Continue reading
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