Out now in theaters is a gorgeous 4K restoration of Gregg Araki’s 2004 masterpiece Mysterious Skin. Gregg Araki is one of the truly great queer maverick directors. Just check out his brilliant, transgressive, teen apocalypse trilogy: Totally F***ed Up (1993),…
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Fuck The Odyssey. For me the ultimate summer movie this year is Eli Roth’s gleefully gruesome horror comedy Ice Cream Man. Set in the tranquil, suburban haven of Bayleen Bay, a mysterious ice cream truck rolls up at a kiddie…
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A new 4K restoration of Luchino Visconti’s achingly romantic 1957 masterwork White Nights is now playing (through August 6) at The Film Forum. Based on a short story by Fyodor Dostoevsky, it’s about two lonely souls who meet on a…
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An L.A. sex cam performer, who goes by the name “Aaron Eagle,” is offered $50,00 by a client to spend a night with him in director Elliot Tuttle’s deeply unsettling chamber piece, showcasing two fearless and brilliant performances by Kieron…
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Director Francois Ozon’s mesmerizing, masterful adaptation of the 1942 novel by Albert Camus– which was a haunting, existential novel of a young man’s senseless murder of an Arab. The film is about Meursault, (Benjamin Voisin from Ozon’s Summer of 85),…
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Gleefully grisly throwback to 70s horror cinema by director Rod Blackhust. This begins with Chase (Seann William Scott) surprising his girlfriend Macy (Fabianne Therese) by taking her out in the Tennessee woods to a scenic overlook in anticipation of proposing…
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Wryly funny and playfully provocative kinky gay love story starring a very affecting Harry Melling as the shy, mild-mannered Colin. He’s by day a traffic warden in the outer borough of London. He also sings acapella with his dad in…
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The second to last feature by the great Italian director Luchino Visconti, Conversation Piece is a witty, darkly humorous and ultimately tragic tale of the unwelcome intrusion of modern life onto a wealthy nobleman (Burt Lancaster), who would prefer to…
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A glorious new reconstruction and 4K restoration of Erich von Stroheim unfinished 1929 epic Queen Kelly. This was a dream project actress Gloria Swanson and her lover at the time Joseph Kennedy (who was bankrolling it) brought to director Erich…
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Why is it that anytime I sit down to make a movie “list” I can hear in the background the dulcet voice of movie star Lola Brewster (lustily played by Kim Novak) in The Mirror Crack’d, “I could eat a…
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