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The Ghost Writer (2010) Mark Adnum Cattrall is still far too reminiscent of Samantha Jones, typecast forever probably, and her permanent sense of slutty double entrendre makes it impossible for her to be convincing as a cool, secretive aide.
Posted Aug 09, 2010  Edit critic review
Brüno (2009) Mark Adnum Just like with Ali G and Borat, Sacha as Brüno tricks famous faces into doing ridiculous interviews. This includes singers Paula Abdul and Latoya Jackson, who both leave within minutes after being served sushi on a naked Mexican.
Posted Jun 18, 2009  Edit critic review
Doubt (2008) Mark Adnum As the lemon-sucking, bonnet-shackled Sister Aloysius Beauvier, the godly dragon lady of St Nicholas Catholic school in the Bronx, Meryl Streep delivers the worst performance of her career.
Posted Feb 10, 2009  Edit critic review
2/5
Valkyrie (2008) Mark Adnum A one-man Hollywood on legs, Cruise is Eyes by Newman, Nose by Streisand, Body by Brando, Brain by Mickey Mouse.
Posted Jan 28, 2009  Edit critic review
Somersault (2004) Mark Adnum The gay subplot is the highlight of the film. \Free of the slack pretensions that saturate the rest of Somersault, the sequences between Joe and Richard (Erik Thomson), an older guy who recognizes Joe's furtive glances, are concise and suspenseful.
Posted Mar 15, 2007  Edit critic review
Butterfly---A Grimm Love Story (2006) Mark Adnum Armin Meiwes is currently in a German jail for biting and cutting off Bernd Brandes' penis, frying it and serving it as a light meal for the both of them, before slaughtering Brandes, carving his body into choice cuts and storing them in the fridge.
Posted Mar 15, 2007  Edit critic review
Cut Sleeve Boys (2006) Mark Adnum This dreadful and inane minstrel show takes its title from a poem written by a Han Emperor who cut off the sleeve of his beautiful robe so he could get out of bed without waking his sleeping male concubine.
Posted Mar 15, 2007  Edit critic review
Paper Dolls (2006) Mark Adnum Heymann seems to be a big-hearted guy who, despite his own admission that he's happy to be alone, wants to push his Paper Dolls into as much happiness as they can find.
Posted Mar 15, 2007  Edit critic review
Broken Sky (2006) Mark Adnum I agree with Salma Hayek, who exclaimed "so many Mexicans!" while announcing the nominations for the 2007 Oscars ceremony, that the past twelve months have featured a bounty of great Mexican films.
Posted Mar 15, 2007  Edit critic review
Notes on a Scandal (2006) Mark Adnum Does anyone else note the similarities between Cate Blanchett and Kate Bush? They have the same first names, physically resemble each other, remain aloof from tabloid hoopla, and share the same kind of elysian artistic genius.
Posted Mar 15, 2007  Edit critic review
Adam & Steve (2005) Mark Adnum Surprisingly, there are some merits in this latest dropping from the despicable Zany Gay Romantic Comedy factory.
Posted Dec 04, 2006  Edit critic review
Yentl (1983) Mark Adnum Like Yentl herself, the movie is constantly in search of who and what it is, only finds itself thwarted by certain circumstances, and sails off the screen still searching, leaving us unsatisfied rather than uplifted
Posted Dec 04, 2006  Edit critic review
October Moon (2005) Mark Adnum what a strange choice, to set a weirdo gay stalker loose with some rope and a set of steak knives amid a sea of gay-tolerance platitudes
Posted Dec 04, 2006  Edit critic review
Gay Sex in the '70s (2005) Mark Adnum the title is rather misleading as though we hear a lot about sex venues and see the odd xxx-pic or clip, there isn't a great deal of gay sex in Gay Sex in the 70's
Posted Dec 04, 2006  Edit critic review
Shortbus (2006) Mark Adnum Even as Mitchell pursues his gently romantic anti-agenda it's explicit three-way sex scenes or the appearance of remote-control vaginal vibrating-egg sex toys that move his tale along
Posted Dec 04, 2006  Edit critic review
The Object of My Affection (1998) Mark Adnum a surprisingly gutsy film that gets better as it goes along
Posted Oct 07, 2006  Edit critic review
Law of Desire (1987) Mark Adnum Antonio Banderas was originally called Jos Antonio Domnguez Bandera (note the missing "s") before Almodvar suggested he change his name
Posted Oct 07, 2006  Edit critic review
Stonewall (1995) Mark Adnum The Stonewall legend never really knows what to do with itself - we know that drag queens led the riots, but conservative gay activists are always happy to insert their own ancestors into the record.
Posted Oct 07, 2006  Edit critic review
Deathtrap (1982) Mark Adnum Michael Caine and Christopher Reeve apparently drank litres of alcohol to get through their dreaded male-male kiss scene in Deathtrap, but you'll need something stronger than alcohol to stay interested in this movie.
Posted Oct 07, 2006  Edit critic review
Wild Side (2004) Mark Adnum Elliptic films of this type invariably drown in their own inscrutability but there's an emotional and psychological authenticity here that elevates Wild Side from the problems of its coma-inducing genre.
Posted Oct 07, 2006  Edit critic review
Jeffrey (1995) Mark Adnum Jeffrey is, easily, the worst gay-themed film ever made.
Posted Oct 07, 2006  Edit critic review
Burning Money (2000) Mark Adnum Druggy but expert armed robbers, Angel and Nene escape to Uruguay when a hold-up in Argentina goes wrong.
Posted Oct 07, 2006  Edit critic review
Tying the Knot (2004) Mark Adnum Tying the Knot's heart-on-its-sleeve makes for several serious missteps.
Posted Oct 07, 2006  Edit critic review
Bent (1997) Mark Adnum A sentimental mock-Jewish string score, bony lead actors and heartless SS guards fill up a very stock picture of martyrs at the mercy of a cruel world.
Posted Oct 07, 2006  Edit critic review
The Silence of the Lambs (1991) Mark Adnum Misguided and counterproductive gay activists set upon The Silence of the Lambs and made fools out of themselves simplifying and misinterpreting certain elements of a complex cinematic masterpiece.
Posted Oct 07, 2006  Edit critic review
Bad Education (2004) Mark Adnum Bad Education is missing the fairy dust that made All About My Mother such a magical masterpiece.
Posted Oct 07, 2006  Edit critic review
All About My Mother (1999) Mark Adnum Huma, a chain-smoking diva in the style of Bette Davis, doesn't seem to distinguish between her offstage self and her role as Blanche duBois, while Manuela becomes, for a moment, a fusion of Eve Harrington and Stella Kowalski.
Posted Oct 07, 2006  Edit critic review
Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (2005) Mark Adnum Kilmer and Downey Jr spar well together, in several truly hilarious exchanges, but their characters are so well drawn and the Black's script so brainy that stale home/hetero tit-for-tats over handfuls of donuts during the stakeout do not occur.
Posted Oct 07, 2006  Edit critic review
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) Mark Adnum Frank seduces both Brad and Janet, kills a love rival who's been imprisoned in a deep freeze (played by Meatloaf) with a pick, and tries to keep a tight leash on the energetic Rocky.
Posted Oct 07, 2006  Edit critic review
Anatomy of Hell (2003) Mark Adnum A beautiful but nameless woman (Amira Casar) tries to kill herself in the toilets of a gay disco. One of the gay clubbers, a handsome and also nameless man (Italian porn superstar Rocco Siffredi), rescues her.
Posted Oct 07, 2006  Edit critic review
Summer Storm (2004) Mark Adnum I think it's interesting that hetero coming-of-age, teen-love films tend to be broad frat-house comedies a la American Pie while gay versions on the theme lean towards a lushly romanticised, almost tragic vision of innocence lost.
Posted Oct 07, 2006  Edit critic review
You'll Get Over It (2002) Mark Adnum Yet another troubled-gay-teen dragged Christ-like through the wringer of high-school-hell film.
Posted Oct 07, 2006  Edit critic review
Death in Venice (1990) Mark Adnum Homosexual attraction in Death In Venice is such an isolated, intellectual quest that it has no carnality, and becomes something like a mania or temporary fever-induced mental attack.
Posted Oct 07, 2006  Edit critic review
Beefcake (1999) Mark Adnum Bob Mizer was the enterprising creator of the Athletic Model Guild, a modelling agency and publishing house that celebrated 1950s-style beefacke bodybuilders through its R-rated magazine "Physique Pictorial"
Posted Oct 07, 2006  Edit critic review
Labyrinth of Passion (1982) Mark Adnum Look, this isn't Almodvar's best film. His second feature, it's a pretty low-budget, low frills affair and the signature kinks are shrill and unhewn.
Posted Oct 07, 2006  Edit critic review
Food of Love (2002) Mark Adnum Paul (Kevin Bishop) is a capable pianist, but not talented enough to break into recital hall superstardom.
Posted Oct 07, 2006  Edit critic review
Alexander (2004) Mark Adnum Anthony Hopkins, made up to look about a hundred and fifty, plays a narrator who records Alexander's life at the library of Alexandria, a grand building which in this film looks more like Elton John's bathroom or the set for an ad for "Kouros".
Posted Oct 07, 2006  Edit critic review
Paragraph 175 (2000) Mark Adnum Made by the Academy Award winning team responsible for Common Threads: Stories From The Quilt, Paragraph 175 is a predictably excellent documentary that explores the haunting memories of a group of gay and lesbian Holocaust survivors with subtlety.
Posted Oct 07, 2006  Edit critic review
Phantom (2000) Mark Adnum Officially selected at the Venice Film Festival and variously proclaimed as "one of the year's ten best films" etc., by reviewers in gay and non-gay media, O Fantasma is really an overblown bore
Posted Oct 07, 2006  Edit critic review
Lola & Bilidikid (1999) Mark Adnum Murat lurks around public toilets and drag bars trying to find some entry point into his adulthood and eventually encounters Lola (Gandi Mukli), a drag performer who turns out to be Murat's estranged brother
Posted Sep 23, 2006  Edit critic review
Mandragora (1997) Mark Adnum Mandragora - or Mandrake - is a noxious plant named from two Greek words meaning "harmful to cattle". Reportedly hallucinogenic and used in the distant past as an anaesthetic before operations, it was fabled to grow under the gallows of hung men, thirstin
Posted Sep 23, 2006  Edit critic review
A Year Without Love (2005) Mark Adnum As his immune system declines, his need for affection increases, but when he hooks up with a hardcore sex gang, meets the charismatic Martn and decides to publish a frank autobiography, he drifts away from his supportive family
Posted Sep 23, 2006  Edit critic review
200 American (2003) Mark Adnum things kind of go no where but also in all directions as this woeful movie jumps aboard the Crapola Express to ****ville
Posted Sep 23, 2006  Edit critic review
The 24th Day (2004) Mark Adnum Twenty-four days after he's learnt of his HIV seroconversion, Tom (Scott Speedman) tracks down Dan (James Madsen), who he believes infected him. Tom takes Dan home, handcuffs him to a chair and withdraws some of Dan's blood
Posted Sep 23, 2006  Edit critic review
9 Dead Gay Guys (2003) Mark Adnum Lower-class Irish guys darting from one misadventure to the other dated about as quickly as Hugh Grant's voice-over narration in films like Notting Hill and About A Boy
Posted Sep 23, 2006  Edit critic review
Close to Leo (2003) Mark Adnum a beautifully shot film with an affectingly melancholy heart. It's intelligent and innovative in several ways and I haven't seen a film that deals with a very young, HIV-positive gay guy in quite the ways that this film does
Posted Sep 23, 2006  Edit critic review
Testosterone (2003) Mark Adnum A perfectly titled film, since the fleeting mid-story appearance of Antonio Sabato Jr.'s **** was apparently all that was necessary to vacuum cash out of gay male film goers' wallets and into the box offices of gay and lesbian film festivals the world ove
Posted Sep 23, 2006  Edit critic review
Taxi to the Toilet (1980) Mark Adnum Taxi Zum Klo (Taxi to the Toilet) is a remarkable AIDS-eve film that was scandalous in its day and still runs rings around self-proclaimed "edgy" queer films that bore us to death each year at the annual local gay and lesbian film festival
Posted Sep 23, 2006  Edit critic review
Come Undone (2000) Mark Adnum Stanley Kubrick once said that watching a film was like taking part in a controlled dream. But Presque Rien is really like the kind of daydream you might have at work, while you stare out the window waiting for five o-clock
Posted Sep 23, 2006  Edit critic review
Stupid Boy (2004) Mark Adnum Oh, when will it end? How many more art-farty films about aimless young homo gits gliding on auto-pilot through an endless string of anonymous sexual encounters do we need to see?
Posted Sep 23, 2006  Edit critic review
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