Secrets and Lives: Mike Leigh’s Vera Drake
“We know what we are, but not what we may be
Category: Movies
The Verve Is Back: The New York Film Festival 2004
This year’s fest features a wealth of winners and a few flops
Quickies: Random Short Reviews from The Black Pirate to H.P. Lovecraft to Uum Kulthum: A Voice Like Egypt
“Ah’m no freak! They ah disgustin’!”
Punishment Parks: The Battle of Algiers on DVD
Look familiar?
“If I were different, maybe things could be the same, only different.” Leo McCarey’s Screwball Classic The Awful Truth on DVD
Cary Grant and Irene Dunne live our dreams
Exploitation & Erotica · Festivals & Awards
Where Kink Is King: The 2004 CineKink Festival
Won’t you be my pony boy?
Odessa, Texas Goes Hollywood: Friday Night Lights I
Are you ready for some rural idiocy?1
Tears in the Astroturf: Friday Night Lights II
This feel-good movie doesn’t
Martha, Interrupted: Fassbinder’s 1974 Masterpiece on DVD
“You’re always wanting to touch me!”
Let’s Talk About Sex, Baby: Revisiting Preminger’s The Moon Is Blue
Mixing it up with Otto and Alfred (Kinsey, that is)
Documentaries · LGBT & Queer · Memoir · Reviews
Going Mental: The Travesties of Tarnation
“He’d fuck himself if he could”
Quickies: Random Short Reviews from Blue Spring to Wisconsin Death Trip
“Old fruit, you’ve got it!”
Asian · DVD & Blu-ray · Reviews
Stray Man: Kurosawa’s Stray Dog on DVD
Tokyo steams, Mifune screams, Shimura beams
Activist & Political · Documentaries · Reviews
A Succession of Presents: Howard Zinn: You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train
Pay attention to that man behind the curtain
Upper-Lip Stiffs: The Agatha Christie Megaset Collection
Christie should be smiling she still outsells the Bible
They Can’t Give You Anything but Love: Robert Aldrich’s Grissom Gang on DVD
Of course, it’ll cost you
Harry Potter and the Valley of the Mysterious Female
When Harry got laid
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