Dennis Dermody
March 19, 2024
Movies
Spellbinding, superbly acted, tale of queer revenge, expertly directed by Sam H. Freeman and Ng Choon Ping. Jules (Nathan Stewart-Jarrett) is a black performance artist in a London gay club. His drag attire gets him savagely beat up by a…
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Dennis Dermody
October 6, 2023
Movies
It’s ironic that the talk this weekend is the opening of The Exorcist: Believer, when the really brilliant, nightmarish film about demonic possession is also premiering- When Evil Lurks by the Argentine director Demian Rugna. Demian Rugna’s previous film- Terrified–…
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Dennis Dermody
August 7, 2023
Movies
Winter Kills is a brilliant 1979 paranoid political thriller by novice director William Richert, which got great reviews but was pulled from theaters after a short run. It also has garnered a well-deserved cult following. Jeff Bridges plays the brother of an assassinated…
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Dennis Dermody
July 24, 2023
Movies
Maggie Q plays a toughened, yet damaged, Iraqi war veteran named Tes who begrudgingly accompanies her sisters to their parents’ farmhouse way out in the desert for a bachelorette party. Her sister Beth (Kat Foster), a Stepford Wife with an…
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Dennis Dermody
June 6, 2023
Movies
Film at Lincoln Center and Janus Films announced an incredible retrospective from July 7-13: “The Dirty Stories of Jean Eustache” celebrating the career of the iconoclastic French post-New Wave director. “The films I made are as autobiographical as fiction can…
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Dennis Dermody
April 10, 2023
Movies
Loving French director Francois Ozon as I do, I shouldn’t have been surprised that he could transform a seemingly depressing premise about an elderly stroke victim who demands his daughters find a way for him to end his life into…
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Dennis Dermody
April 3, 2023
Movies
Is the epic, non-stop action orgy called John Wick: Chapter 4 too much of a good thing? Probably, but, as I was sitting in my theater seat with my jaw unhinged for nearly three hours in such a state of…
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Dennis Dermody
February 6, 2023
Movies
Director Carter Smith’s new film is a nightmarish, nerve-shredding, queer love story/body horror film. Two best friends are spending a final night on the town together in Maine. Long-haired, tattooed Dom (Jose Colon) is straight and his handsome buddy Benjamin…
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Dennis Dermody
January 30, 2023
Movies
If you think you’ve seen how horrible the wealthy can be at ritzy resorts by watching The White Lotus you still will be unprepared when you experience Brandon Cronenberg’s bizarre, twisted, hallucinatory- Infinity Pool. Alexander Skarsgard plays James Foster, an…
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Dennis Dermody
January 10, 2023
Movies
Quietly devastating film by Alice Diop about Rama (stunning Kayije Kagame), a writer and professor attending the trial of Laurence Coly (Guslagie Malanda), a Franco-Senegalese graduate student, who murdered her 15-month-old baby on a beach in France. Laurence is enigmatic…
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