drama

  • Queerguru’s Andrew Hebden reviews  BOY MEETS BOY

    Queerguru’s Andrew Hebden reviews BOY MEETS BOY

    Warning: This film contains penetration of social bubbles, unsanitized hands, and explicit bare facing. It is for fantasy purposes only. In Daniel Sanchez Lopez’s Boy Meets Boy two gay men meet each other on the dancefloor in Berlin after 24 hours of clubbing. At first, it’s the hazy intimacy of drugs that brings them together…

  • The World To Come : (may be as bleak as this one)

    The World To Come : (may be as bleak as this one)

      Set in 1856 this slow-burning drama is mostly as bleak as the wild Frontier it is set in.  It opens with a throughly depressed Abigail (Katherine Waterson) reading aloud in voiceover . “This morning, ice in our bedroom for the first time all winter,”  and you really feel the cold as she speaks. She…

  • Falling : Viggo Mortensen’s finely nuanced directing/writing debut

    Falling : Viggo Mortensen’s finely nuanced directing/writing debut

      Watching a third movie that deals with dementia in as many weeks is kind of a tough call (especially for a critic edging on in years).  First Sir Anthony Hopkins played a cantankerous old man who never let up on his sainted daughter Olivia Colman in The Father. Then competing with them for Best…

  • Haymaker !  It was probably a good idea on paper

    Haymaker ! It was probably a good idea on paper

      It’s a brave man who steps out from behind the camera and takes control of his own movie. That’s exactly what visual effects artist Nick Sasso did when he decided to write, direct, edit and also star in Haymaker his very first feature.  Sasso needs to be applauded for both his effort and determination…