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Sunday, August 17, 2025

'Blue Film' Review: A Swaggering Camboy Is Caught Off-Guard In a Provocative Chamber Piece by Guy Lodge

Anyone approaching "Blue Film" hoping to be titillated, per the pornographic implication of the title, is likely to be disappointed. "Blue" denotes sex, certainly, and that's forever on the …

SOURCE: Variety at 08:32AM[SHARE]

Saturday, August 9, 2025

'The Birthday Party' Review: Willem Dafoe Uncordially Invites You to a Murky Family Melodrama by Guy Lodge

No man is an island, except, perhaps, a man who owns one. The alienating, even dehumanizing effects of extreme wealth and privilege are brought to bear in "The Birthday Party," a grim little…

SOURCE: Variety at 11:51AM[SHARE]

Saturday, July 12, 2025

'Christy' Review: Brothers Estranged by the Care System Rebuild Their Bond in a Moving Irish Crowdpleaser by Guy Lodge

The gray suburban fringes of Cork's Northside region are gradually colored with hope in "Christy," an old-fashioned coming-of-age heartwarmer with few narrative surprises but a winningly aut…

SOURCE: Variety at 03:30PM[SHARE]

Friday, July 11, 2025

'Better Go Mad in the Wild' Review: Twin Brothers Love, Hate and Live Off the Land in an Enchanting Czech Original by Guy Lodge

Dense with tall, light-swallowing spruce trees and rooted in sodden, fertile ground, the Å umava Forest along the Czech-German border looks and feels like the setting for a Grimm Brothers …

SOURCE: Variety at 12:53PM[SHARE]

Wednesday, July 9, 2025

'The Visitor' Review: A Searching Lithuanian Character Study Caught Between the Peace of Solitude and the Pang of Loneliness by Guy Lodge

You can't go home again, as Thomas Wolfe famously told us, and the drifting, dawdling protagonist of "The Visitor" knows it all too well. But he goes home anyway, and stays there, and stays …

SOURCE: Variety at 07:45AM[SHARE]

Saturday, November 23, 2024

Streaming: the best Hamlets on screen by Guy Lodge

Ahead of Grand Theft Hamlet, in which Shakespeare's play is staged entirely inside a video game, check out cinema's avenging princes, from Laurence Olivier to Ethan Hawke When I was 16, for …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AM[SHARE]

Tuesday, January 25, 2022

John Cameron Mitchell: 'There's been a certain sex panic in the air' by Guy Lodge

The multi-hyphenate talks about the rerelease of his groundbreaking drama Shortbus and the changes in how we view sex in the past 15 years It's a little more than 15 years since John Cameron…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24AM[SHARE]

Sunday, January 16, 2022

Streaming: The Tragedy of Macbeth and the best Shakespeare on film by Guy Lodge

Joel Coen's noirish take on the Scottish play, now on Apple TV+, is up against Shakespeare screen classics from luminaries including Kurosawa, Olivier and Baz Luhrmann With Joel Coen's The T…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:48PM[SHARE]

Saturday, February 8, 2014

Guy Lodge's DVDs and downloads by Guy Lodge

Superb performances from Tom Hanks as a hijacked skipper and the late James Gandolfini as a disillusioned divorcee are among this week's DVD highlightsFor an ostensible Everyman, Tom Hanks h…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PM[SHARE]

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