The Verve Is Back: The New York Film Festival 2004
This year’s fest features a wealth of winners and a few flops
Category: Movies
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”
Secrets and Lives: Mike Leigh’s Vera Drake
“We know what we are, but not what we may be
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
Welcome to the Chest Club: Tina Fey’s Mean Girls
Freaks and Geeks redux
DVD & Blu-ray · Experimental & Underground
Ai, Robot! Survival Research Laboratories: 10 Years of Robotic Mayhem on DVD
A Cruel and Rebellious Plot to Pervert the Minds of Viewers to Unholy Uses
Quickies: Random Short Reviews from Blue Spring to Wisconsin Death Trip
“Old fruit, you’ve got it!”
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