The New Girlfriend
François Ozon means to grab your attention from the very first frame of this movie which shows a young bride in a wedding dress lying in a coffin surrounded by white roses and sobbing mourners. Standing besides David her husband is Claire who has been Laura’s best friend since childhood and she finishes her emotional … Continue reading
The Normal Heart
Larry Kramer is perpetually angry. This prominent loud-mouthed writer and gay activist has been shouting out his highly personal take on some of life’s iniquities and in-equalities for the past 40 years and has made himself famously unpopular. It was his exasperation with the apathy of the gay community when the AIDS scare first started … Continue reading
The One
Daniel is a young handsome merchant banker living in Manhattan with his beautiful fiancee Jenn a lawyer and they are busy planning their large family wedding in New Jersey next month. The ex college jock who is planning to lead the exact same happy life his wealthy parents did, seems to have it all. That … Continue reading
The One You Feed
Sometime you make bad choices in life. Mine was choosing ‘The One You Feed’ movie to be the very first movie I watched in 2021. Coming out of possibly the worst year ever, watching such a depressing downer of a film was a decision I soon regretted. It’s the work of Drew Harwood who … Continue reading
The Ornithologist
You really need to brush up your knowledge of the Portuguese Saint Anthony of Padua to appreciate writer/director João Pedro Rodrigues’s very queer take on the legend of his life. It is both surreal and provocative and demands a great deal of of patience from its audience when it strays off on confusing tangents. Fernando (Paul … Continue reading