Roger reviews Quentin Tarantino’s eighth movie: the very tongue-in-cheek bloody carnage of The Hateful 8, which despite all its gratuitous violence is one of the funniest movies around right now.
RWD reviews David Drakes genderswap production of Oscar Wilde’s most popular comedy The Importance of Being Earnest at the Provincetown Theater for PTV. <
Imagine an even grander version of the Dowager Countess of Grantham who has fallen on hard times and now is a homeless bag woman as that is exactly how Maggie Smith is in this delightful British comedy based on a mostly true story. It’s a tour-de-force performance that sadly didn’t get the Oscar Nomination for … Continue reading
TRUTH : a Sony Classics newsroom drama dealing with the 2004 CBS ’60 Minutes’ Report investigating Pres. George W Bush’s military service that ended up costing veteran newsman Dan Rather his job, starring Cate Blanchett as Mary Mapes the determined TV producer who wouldn’t be shaken off the trail.
RWD reviews VIVA : the compelling story of one young Cuban gay man struggling with his impoverished existence and coping with the sudden return of his long-lost homophobic father in dilapidated Havana and who found his salvation in performing. Submitted for a Best Foreign Film Oscar Nomination : this is one of the best LGBT … Continue reading