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These schoolboys, blurrily indistinguishable from each other for a large part of the film, basically run wild in their loosely structured classes, re-enacting scenes from old Bette Davis movies, bursting into song recitals, and occasionally dropping their pants and lying supine on desks, whilst prattling saucy entendres in French....
The setting: a boy’s orphanage out in the middle of freakin’ nowhere at the end of the Spanish Civil War. The building is extremely isolated (of course), and is a whole day’s walk across dry scrubby desert to the nearest town in case, well, you know, anything were to...
This completely by-the-book feel-good sports drama sticks in your head about as long as a Nike commercial. No, I take that back. Nike has had some pretty good advertising campaigns the last few years. Robert Duvall plays a stodgy owner of a lowly Scottish “football” (translation: soccer) club. This...
Before I saw Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, I had asked several people what they had thought of the film, as I tried to decide whether or not to see it before losing all momentum. “So… how was it?” I’d ask. Every time—really, every time—the response would...
Stephen (Greg Lauren) and Danny (Christopher Gartin) are a totally open gay couple who met while they were both Army Rangers. (Isn’t that where true love usually happens?) Anyway, after leaving the Army, the natural progression was to become enforcers/bodyguards for Victor Patrizzi (Tony Lo Bianco), the head of...
Tipping the Velvet is a three-hour television adaptation of the surprisingly successful first novel by Sarah Waters (read Moviepie’s exclusive interview with Sarah Waters about the series). Surprising in that the novel was basically an erotic lesbian romp through the 1890s Victorian England underworld, with prostitution, cross-dressing, music halls,...
2002 has turned into quite a banner year for Sarah Waters. At 36, the Welsh-born, London-based writer found herself to be the youngest author on the 2002 shortlist for literature’s prestigious Booker Prize for her latest work, the twisty Victorian mystery Fingersmith. Though this recognition garnered much attention for...
Until I saw this film, I had no idea what a shockwave the development of the Cinerama format sent through the entire world when it first appeared in the early ’50s. In my mind, it was simply the name of a theater downtown that had a big-ass screen and...
As in any film involving the remote wilderness and frightening backwoods characters, Guardian begins as a carefree trip of independence (read: topless canoeing) and builds towards a climax of that is filled with horror, sex, betrayal, and real or imagined violence. With the menacing threat of a rapist on...
Let me just say this: Michael Winterbottom is an extremely cool and creative director that always seems one step from making a great film. I will go see anything that has his named stamped on it, despite the fact that I usually end up feeling slightly deflated by the...
It’s not often these days in movies when you can genuinely say, “Well, I’ve never seen THAT before!” The Fast Runner, the first major film shot entirely in the Inuit language (that would be north, north, north Canada, for those of you rusty on native peoples) contains at least...
Modern gay romantic comedies seem to walk a thin line between pretty good (but not great) and utter crap. And unfortunately most of them are crap. That’s true, of course, of mainstream straight romances, too, but you don’t see mainstream audiences heaping support and praise all over garbage in...
