FAGGOTS
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  Year Released: 2005 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 52 minutes |
Marcos Arriaga’s study of homosexual life in present day Peru is a fascinating look into Latin America’s struggle with religion, politics and machismo…
Posted on June 4, 2005 by James Wegg
CALLAS FOREVER
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  Year Released: 2002 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 108 minutes |
Franco Zeffirelli’s long and brilliant career bringing opera to the stage and screen, coupled with his friendship with Maria Callas make him the ideal director to set “Callas Forever” to life…
Posted on June 1, 2005 by James Wegg
INSIDE OUT FOR THE 15TH TIME
Now in its fifteenth year, Toronto’s Inside Out Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival has entered puberty with poise, panache and pride rather than the acne, awkwardness and angst that, more typically, plague a growing body while its hormones rage. Director Jeremy Podeswa was part of the original volunteer cooperative that laboured for nearly [...]
Posted on May 23, 2005 by James Wegg
LE GOÛT DES JEUNES FILLES
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Year Released: 2004 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 88 minutes |
This testament to what could be has a worldwide audience…
Posted on May 17, 2005 by James Wegg
CHRISTIAN BAUER SEEKING RITCHIE BOYS
NEWPORT BEACH FILM FESTIVAL 2005 INTERVIEW! For director/writer Christian Bauer, the making of “The Ritchie Boys” has been a personal odyssey spanning more than fifteen years. As a post-war German, he became engrossed in reading about those who felt compelled to leave Germany in the 1930s…
Posted on April 26, 2005 by James Wegg
COLLEGE DAYS, COLLEGE NIGHTS
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Year Released: 2005 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 127 minutes |
AIRING ON THE DOCUMENTARY CHANNEL, MARCH 1-3! The state of Canada’s university life and the attendant debate of higher education versus hire/education is so vividly captured in John Zaritsky’s College Days, College Nights that it should form the core curriculum of both those contemplating enrollment and – whether, family, spouses or governments – those who must pay the freight…
Posted on March 2, 2005 by James Wegg
DOWNFALL
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  Year Released: 2004 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 127 minutes |
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM ACADEMY AWARD NOMINEE! This difficult but brilliantly executed film will continue the discourse about one of the worst human tragedies ever, even as others flare up or continue…
Posted on February 23, 2005 by James Wegg
LADIES IN LAVENDER
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Year Released: 2004 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 103 minutes |
Dance has given the world more than just a well executed film, he’s provided those lucky enough to see it a few moments of human experience that will resonant within for years to come…
Posted on February 23, 2005 by James Wegg
THE CHORUS
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Year Released: 2004 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 95 minutes |
FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM ACADEMY AWARD NOMINEE! See this film – it will warm your heart and, perhaps, lure a few present-day wayward souls into the concert hall…
Posted on February 23, 2005 by James Wegg
BEAUTIFUL BOXER
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Year Released: 2004 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 116 minutes |
“Beautiful Boxer” is a magical vision of the ring of the imagination, where anything is possible if the top of the seemingly impossible staircase of self acceptance can be reached…
Posted on February 15, 2005 by James Wegg
BAADASSSSS! (DVD)
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  Year Released: 2003 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 108 minutes |
This is an important film if for no other reason than its comment about the value (and paradoxically the power) that in-your-face art has…
Posted on February 6, 2005 by James Wegg
ARMY OF ONE
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Year Released: 2004 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 100 minutes |
SCREENING AT THE PIONEER THEATER IN NEW YORK CITY, JANUARY 26 – FEBRUARY 1! Those clinging to power would rather scare our youth into fighting for the homeland, than voting out those who have ruined it…
Posted on January 19, 2005 by James Wegg
THE RITCHIE BOYS
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Year Released: 2004 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 93 minutes |
PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2005 REVIEW! Any thinking person – no matter what political stripe or moral belief – needs to see this important film then try to apply its valuable lessons to today’s, still, unstable planet…
Posted on January 16, 2005 by James Wegg
COACH CARTER
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Year Released: 2005 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 127 minutes |
IN THEATERS! In “Coach Carter”, director Thomas Carter and writers Mark Schwahn and John Gatins have taken the broad details of real-life coach Ken Carter as he transformed the worst team in the intercity league to near State champions, producing a film that sizzles on the court, but loses heat in the sub-plots and backstory…
Posted on January 15, 2005 by James Wegg
PUTERI GUNUNG LEDANG
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Year Released: 2004 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 127 minutes |
PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2005 REVIEW! And so the legends live on, and this film, itself a labor of love, should be seen and taken as the first magical step along the perilous road of bringing fine art to the screen…
Posted on January 12, 2005 by James Wegg