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Parting Glances **** (1986, John Bolger, Richard Ganoung, Steve Buscemi) – Classic Movie Review 8867

Writer-director Bill Sherwood’s 1986 Queer Cinema drama Parting Glances is a powerful bittersweet look at New York gay life in the Eighties, with funny, touching and heart-breakingly tragic moments. Writer-director Sherwood works little wonders with […]

Aug, 25

Pain and Glory [Dolor y Gloria] ***** (2019, Antonio Banderas, Penélope Cruz, Asier Etxeandia, Leonardo Sbaraglia, Cecilia Roth, Julieta Serrano, Nora Navas, César Vicente) – Movie Review

Writer/ director Pedro Almodóvar’s reflective semi-autobiographical Pain and Glory [Dolor y Gloria] (2019) is tremendous, as near perfection as any film gets. Almodóvar is on great form in serious mode in one of his best […]

Aug, 25

A Man of No Importance **** (1994, Albert Finney, Brenda Fricker, Michael Gambon, Tara Fitzgerald, Rufus Sewell, Patrick Malahide, David Kelly) – Classic Movie Review 8,763

Albert Finney, Brenda Fricker and Michael Gambon star in the 1994 comedy drama film A Man of No Importance. Finney plays a closeted gay bus conductor in Dublin in 1963 who puts on Oscar Wilde […]

Jul, 27

A Month in the Country *** (1987, Colin Firth, Kenneth Branagh, Natasha Richardson, Patrick Malahide, Tony Haygarth, Richard Vernon, Jim Carter) – Classic Movie Review 8702

Director Pat O’Connor’s 1987 British drama A Month in the Country is a subtle film version of J L Carr’s novel, made with TV in mind but promoted to a cinema release. The tale is […]

Jul, 13

To Forget Venice [Dimenticare Venezia] ***** (1979, Mariangela Melato, Eleonora Giorgi, Erland Josephson) – Classic Movie Review 8603

Story-writer/ co-producer/ director Franco Brusati’s 1979 drama To Forget Venice [Dimenticare Venezia] is an exquisitely performed, delicately told story of two mixed gay couples spending a weekend in the country. A brother, Nicky (Erland Josephson), […]

Jun, 18

Rocketman **** (2019, Taron Egerton, Jamie Bell, Richard Madden, Bryce Dallas Howard, Steven Mackintosh, Gemma Jones, Stephen Graham) – Movie Review

Taron Egerton stars in Rocketman (2019) in a bravura performance as Reg Dwight, who nicks his new first name from his band mate Elton Dean and supposedly his new surname from John Lennon, though apparently […]

May, 25

The White Crow **** (2018, Oleg Ivenko, Ralph Fiennes, Louis Hofmann) – Movie Review

Whether emoting or dancing, Oleg Ivenko is mesmerising as Rudolf Nureyev in director Ralph Fiennes’s intense, multi-layered story of the Russian dancer’s defection to the West. How he dances! He hardly looks like Nureyev, really, […]

Apr, 02

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