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Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
In this lightweight implausible and gloriously silly movie Robert Downey Jnr. plays a petty thief who specializes in robbing toy stores and who stumbles into being an actor in a twist that only happens in movies. To train him for the role of a Private Eye, the film’s Producers assign him to work with a gay…
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Victim
This was the first serious approach to homosexuality the cinema had ever made. Made in Britain in 1961 where, as in the US, being gay was still a crime, the movie was actually banned from American theaters simply because it used the word ‘homosexual’. The story is of a handsome young man called ‘Boy’ Barrett who…
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Animal Kingdom
The opening scene of this gritty crime thriller movie shows Jay, a teenage boy, at home calmly watching ‘Deal or No Deal’ on the TV as his heroin addicted mother has just O.D. on the couch besides him. His grandmother, who has been estranged from her daughter for years, rushes over to pick…
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THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES
This enthralling new movie from filmmaker Derek Cianfrance (BLUE VALENTINE) is a thriller in three acts which link together to tell an engrossing story. The first part …. by far the strongest …. is the story of Luke a stunt motorcyclist in a travelling carnival who discovers he has a bad son. This tattooed covered…
