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Love Blooms [L’amour debout] *** (2019, Paul Delbreil, Adèle Csech, Samuel Fasse) – Classic Movie Review 12,727

Paul Delbreil stars in the 2019 French film Love Blooms [L’amour debout] as would-be film-maker Martin, who comes to meet his tour guide girlfriend Léa (Adèle Csech) in Paris but she suddenly breaks up with […]

Nov, 26

Tick, Tick… Boom! [tick, tick… BOOM!] **** (2021, Andrew Garfield, Robin de Jesús, Alexandra Shipp, Joshua Henry, Vanessa Hudgens) – Movie Review

Lin-Manuel Miranda makes his exciting feature directorial debut in the 2021 American biographical musical drama film Tick, Tick… Boom!, based on the stage musical by Jonathan Larson. Andrew Garfield stars as Jonathan Larson, who in […]

Dec, 01

Velvet Goldmine **** (1998, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Ewan McGregor, Eddie Izzard, Christian Bale) – Classic Movie Review 1529

Rhys-Meyers and Ewan McGregor strut their flamboyant stuff in writer-director Todd Haynes’s gay-friendly, Citizen Kane-style exposé of 1970s glam rock. In truth, the immensely ambitious 1998 drama Velvet Goldmine is a part failure, but it […]

Aug, 09

Cupcakes (2013, Anat Waxman, Ofer Shechter) – Movie Review

Co-writer/director Eytan Fox’s nostalgia-minded tale is a gloriously cute, camp and charming comedy that takes a Eurovision-style song contest as its starting point and delivers lots of laughs, one or two tears, some very daft […]

Apr, 27

The Stag *** (2013, Andrew Scott, Hugh O’Conor, Peter McDonald, Michael Legge) – Movie Review

A bachelor stag party weekend in the great outdoors takes some strange but not entirely unexpected detours. Surprisingly, maybe, co-writer/director John Butler’s film comedy is very likeable and amusing, well acted by a good cast, […]

Mar, 14

In and Out [In & Out] *** (1997, Kevin Kline, Joan Cusack, Tom Selleck) – Classic Movie Review 763

Director Frank Oz’s widely popular, gay-friendly 1997 movie is a good-natured but shaky comedy about an American mid-western small-town teacher (Kevin Kline), about to be married to his childhood sweetheart (Joan Cusack), who is outed as […]

Jan, 28

As Good As It Gets ***** (1997, Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt, Greg Kinnear, Cuba Gooding Jr, Shirley Knight, Skeet Ulrich) – Classic Movie Review 185

‘How do you write women so well?’ – awed publishers’ receptionist ‘I think of a man, and I take away reason and accountability.’ – Melvin Udall Jack Nicholson and Helen Hunt won Best Actor and […]

Aug, 24

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