Kevin Kline and Tom Selleck gay kiss in In & Out. Following my Valentine’s Day post featuring lots of male-female kisses and embraces (and a few shapely legs, bare breasts,…
AFI Awards winner Jacki Weaver in Animal Kingdom. The Australian Film Institute Best Actress winner has been nominated for several critics awards in the United States and is a likely…
Brittany Murphy in Uptown Girls. A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer release, the widely panned, $20 million-budgeted Uptown Girls – despite lacking major box office names – somehow didn’t turn out to be a…
Left to right: Costume worn by Danny Kaye in The Inspector General (1949), designed by Travilla. Costume worn by Viveca Lindfors in The Adventures of Don Juan (1948), designed by…
Frozen River with Melissa Leo and Mark Boone Junior: Sundance Film Festival Awards. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize Dramatic at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, first-time filmmaker Courtney Hunt’s…
Little Miss Sunshine with Greg Kinnear, Steve Carell, Paul Dano, Alan Arkin, Abigail Breslin, Toni Collette. ‘Little Miss Sunshine’ review: Script suffers from severe case of mad crowd-pleasing disease Much…
La Haine with Vincent Cassel: Cinematic Paris riots prophecy. With the Paris riots spreading to other French cities, Mathieu Kassovitz’s 1995 César-winning socially conscious drama La Haine / Hate comes…
Chris and Paul Weitz’s reactionary audience-pandering comedy About a Boy (2002) stars Hugh Grant as a man who tragically discovers his inner family man.
Wong Kar-Wai (image: Mattias Lindbäck ) Screenwriter-director Courtney Hunt’s immigrant smuggling drama Frozen River takes place in the days before Christmas near a border crossing on the Mohawk reservation between New…
Stephen Daldry’s uneven drama The Hours is immensely helped by the performances of Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman + Philip Glass’ haunting score.