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GIANT LITTLE ONES

March 27, 2019 By Leave a Comment

GIANT LITTLE ONES

GIANT LITTLE ONES is a perceptive, intelligent examination of what happens when unexpected feelings and actions don’t have neat labels.  In a time when acceptance of teenage sexuality, at least straight sexuality, has become the norm for most concerned, both parents and their sexually active kids, the question of sexual fluidity can still flummox.

Tagged With: coming of age, high school, sex, sexual fluidity

SAUSAGE PARTY

August 12, 2016 By Leave a Comment

SAUSAGE PARTY

It’s just as well that Seth Rogan’s animated comedy, SAUSAGE FEST, is R-rated. That would be because the most awkward question a parent might have to answer after his or her child has seen this metaphysically dense romp wouldn’t be about the specific mechanics involved in the bonding between Brenda (Kristen Wiig), a bosomy hot… Read More »

Tagged With: animated, bagel, bath salts, grits, hot dog bun, lavash, orgy, sausage, sex, stereotypes

3

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

3

3 is a German variation on the classic French bedroom farce. As such, in addition to the leaping from metaphorical bed to metaphorical bed with all the attendant cross-purposes and miscommunications, there are also robust and tantalizing morsels of semiotics, synchronicity, existential identity, with a romantic spirit at work that not only invokes, but also… Read More »

Tagged With: adultery, romance, semiotics, sex

THE GURU

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

THE GURU

THE GURU is a fluffy confection that mixes the exuberance of Bollywood with measured lunacy of 30s screwball comedies and adds just a dash of “The Joy of Sex” to leaven the mixture with a millennial sensibility. Our hero is Ramu, an Indian dance teacher who was marked as a child by seeing John Travolta… Read More »

Tagged With: mysticism, pornography, review andrea chase, romance, sex, spirituality

TEKNOLUST

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

One of my favorite lines in Lyne Hershman-Leeson’s TEKNOLUST concerns the side effects of knowledge. They’re dangerous because they’re unpredictable. Once you learn something, paradigms shift, assumptions evaporate, and you’re forced to look at the world in a whole new way and maybe even re-think your whole life. Scary stuff.  The film ponders the nature… Read More »

Tagged With: clones, romance, sex, virus

LIES (GOJITMAL)

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

LIES (GOJITMAL)

Ah, sadomasochism, the gift that keeps on giving–—welts, bruises, tattoos in all sorts of interesting places and that’’s the theme of LIES, the latest flick from Jang Sun Woo, up until now one of my favorite directors on the world scene.  But, hey, everyone slips up occasionally. For Jang it’s a particularly joyless coupling of… Read More »

Tagged With: dreck, sadomasochism, sex

Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu is BIUTIFUL

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu is BIUTIFUL

Until now Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu has made films that feature multiple story lines of people in crisis. With BIUTIFUL, he follows one story from beginning to end, but loses none of the complexity or richness of his previous work. It also incorporates part of his own experience of feeling a brush with death. When I… Read More »

Tagged With: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, BIUTIFUL, collaboration, death, director, drama, film, Javier Bardem, magical realism, movie, narrative, screenwriter, sex

Gregg Araki Goes KABOOM

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Gregg Araki Goes KABOOM

Gregg Araki made his reputation for uncompromising indie filmmaking with a the Doom Generation Trilogy. Those films explored the terror and exhilaration of being young, confused, and hormonal. His later film, MYSTERIOUS SKIN, was unflinching in its depiction of the effects of child sexual abuse on its victims. His latest, KABOOM, picks up many of… Read More »

Tagged With: Chris Zylka, college, David Lynch, Doom Generation Trilogy, fantasy, Gregg Araki, Haley Bennet, Juno Temple, Kelly Lynch, post-millenial, Sci-fi, sex, Thomas Dekker

Helen Hunt Conducts THE SESSIONS

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Helen Hunt Conducts THE SESSIONS

I spoke to Helen Hunt on October 5, 2012, and the obvious question was about whether or not being unclothed before a camera ever feels normal. She was good-natured about answering, and went on to talk about the trepidations she did and didn’t have about accepting the role of Cheryl Cohen-Greene, the sex-surrogate who helped Mark O’Brien,… Read More »

Tagged With: based on a true story, Cheryl Cohen-Greene, cinema, disability, drama, film, Helen Hunt, iron lung, John Hawkes, losing virginity, Mark O'Brien, movie, narrative, paralysis, poet, polio, polio survivor, sex, sex surrogate, sin, Sundance Special Jury Prize

Jimi Mistry & Heather Graham Find THE GURU

September 1, 2014 By Leave a Comment

Jimi Mistry & Heather Graham Find  THE GURU

THE GURU was a hit in Europe long before it made its way to the States and that’s a darn shame. Its infectious good humor and playful smarts is something no moviegoer should have to do without a minute longer than necessary. Playful is also the way I’d describe two of its stars, Jimi Mistry… Read More »

Tagged With: bollywood, comedy, compassion, culture shock, Heather Graham, Jimi Mistry, nudity on set, playful, porn film, sex, spirituality

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