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More to “The Maybe”
There’s more to “The Maybe” than simply Tilda Swinton sleeping in a box. It’s a curious experience to visit Tilda Swinton’s art installation “The Maybe” in its current incarnation at the Museum of...
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Deep in Vogue with Punk’s Couture
Music icon Malcolm McLaren (he died in 2010) was an integral early element in multiple counter cultures and upcoming genres throughout his career. In the late 1980s he helped spearhead the mainstream...
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The Roof is on Fire
The summer season brings with it many traditions and seasonal changes: beer gardens suddenly open up their canopy decking, gin and tonics are suddenly being ordered by far more bar patrons than usual,...
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Across 110th Street
Just because the area of Central Park north of Jackie Onassis Reservoir may not be as famous or well-traversed – it’s certainly not for filmmakers – doesn’t mean it wants for a beauty all its own...
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Continental and The Secret Disco Revolution Examine Gay Culture’s First Blush...
“In order to be successful, you either have to create a desire, or fulfil a need”, says Continental bath owner Steve Ostrow in writer/director Malcolm Ingram’s third homo-centric documentary...
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Snow White’s Sadistic Sister
If one is to view Paul McCarthy’s latest large-scale exhibit at the Paul Avenue Armory as a treatise on the mass corporatisation of Disney then, well, he must hold them pretty low esteem. With “WS”,...
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Liberace and Anna Nicole: Larger Than Life on the Small Screen
Television has long been fascinated with telling the life tales of famous personalities. These personalities that lead lifestyles with a mixture of fabulous and tragic tend to fascinate with the excess...
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Dwan Six Times: The Rise and Decline of a Director
I consider myself fortunate to have been able to see six films as a part of the Museum of Modern Art’s recent Allan Dwan retrospective, “Allan Dwan and the Rise and Decline of the Hollywood Studios”....
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How Do You Solve a Problem Like Gender Inequality?
“It’s about time”, said Barbra Streisand at the 2010 Academy Awards before announcing “…Kathryn Bigelow” as the first female winner of the prestigious best director prize for The Hurt Locker. Given the...
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Conjuring the Ultimate Fighting Champion of Haunting Movies
This review contains some spoilers to The Conjuring. James Wan’s The Conjuring is the Ultimate Fighting Champion of haunting movies. It is all of the movies. Every single one. Coming to the film...
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James Franco and Travis Mathews Blur Sex and Violence, Fact and Fiction
Is Interior. Leather Bar a documentary? Is it a docu-drama? Is it a mockumentary? It will probably tickle director James Franco pink to see his film cause such a bout of frustration amongst viewers,...
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The Orphan and Mr Universe: Il Futuro Explores the Ethics of Sexuality
The sight of Rutger Hauer in Il Futuro is a far cry from the European beauty he displayed back in 1982 with Blade Runner. He looks tired and overweight, sheathed in a silk bathrobe of oriental origin,...
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War is Hell (duh) in Jayne Mansfield’s Car
**this review is reprinted from 2012 when I saw Jayne Mansfield’s Car at the Melbourne International Film Festival** War is hell, duh. Sadly, Billy Bob Thornton’s first time behind the camera in some...
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Concussion Hits Like a Blow to the Head
It’s perhaps appropriate that Stacie Passon titled her debut feature Concussion. It’s a film that deals with the workings of the brain in bruising ways that many in the recently expanding lexicon of...
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Stylin’ Up with the 30th Anniversary of Wild Style
In the annals of cinema, Charlie Ahearn’s 1983 hip-hop docu-drama Wild Style is hardly as revered as it ought to be. It won no awards, rarely features on any lists niche or otherwise, and seemingly...
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Kill Your Darlings is Out of the Closet, but Not Outside the Box
For a film that goes out of its way time and time again to tell the audience that its protagonist was a pioneering wunderkind who helped revolutionise an artform and thought outside the box, John...
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I Am Divine is Divine, but no Madness
True story: I once came up with an idea to make a documentary on Divine simply because I thought the title Shit-Eating Grin was too good to pass up. Naturally, my complete and utter inability to do...
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Art Investigated in Pair of DOC NYC Titles
It’s somewhat fitting that I saw Finding Vivian Maier and Levitated Mass together. While both deal with the world of art, it’s the fine print that makes them somewhat ideal twins. Both are finely told...
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When it Rains it Pours: Gay Cinema Round-Up
It’s rare that a fan of LGBT cinema has a bounty of options that allows someone such as myself to say “skip this and see that.” Pickings are usually so slim at any given time that gay audiences...
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