drama
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Queen & Slim : a black ‘Bonnie & Clyde’
The jump from directing Beyonce’s music videos to helming her 2 1/2 hour first feature film seemed to overwhelm Melina Matsoukas resulting in an intriguing but uneven film. Hyped everywhere as a ‘black Bonnie & Clyde” which was kind of a spoiler as to how this thriller would end, but saying that this, and…
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Greta : a queer Brazilian sex drama that takes Greta Garbo”s name in vain
Poor Greta Garbo would turn over in her (lesbian) grave if she knew how her name was being taken in vain in this rather turgid queer Brazilian drama. Its the feature film debut of writer/director Armando Praça who claims he adapted it from a stage comedy, in which we think he means he drained…
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Copa 181 : the story of a gay sauna that is a home away from home
The immediate future of Brazilian queer cinema may not look to rosy right now after the vitriolic homophobic President Jair Bolsonaro has recently declared that government funds will now be withheld from cinema projects containing LGBTQ content. Hopefully this (and he) will not last long as Brazil has become such a valuable source for…
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Motherless Brooklyn : Edward Norton”s film noir
Edward Norton’s movie which he wrote, directed and starred in and was obviously a work of passion, is an impressive film noir. Very loosely adapted from the novel of the same name by Jonathan Lethem it’s a sprawling tale set in New York in the 1950’s which evokes more than a passing memory of…
