Bernardo Bertoluccis THE DREAMERS is a moody bit of erotica that devolves into a muddle. Trying as it does to mix the heady and revolutionary nature of politics and sex in the 1960s, when it is set, it fails to draw the parallels necessary to elevate the porn-lite into a more profound, not to mention potent, realm… Read More »
YOUNG ADAM
There is no one actually named Adam in YOUNG ADAM, based on the novel by 50s Brit Beat Alexander Trocchi. Its use is open to interpretations, biblical and other. Make of it what you will, but be prepared for a harsh, yet mesmerizing dissection of the way morality is often lived rather than how it is always… Read More »
INSIDE DEEP THROAT
Filmmakers Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato have taken a hot button topic and turned it into a piquant and incisive sociological treatise on the societal attitudes towards sex and sexuality and how those attitudes, oddly, havent changed much even with the sexual revolution. That it’s also a look at the eternal struggle between art and… Read More »
KILLER JOE
There are truths about human nature that only brutality in its rawest form can depict. Such is the concept embraced with both verve and style by William Friedkin in KILLER JOE, a tale of moral compasses gone askew, dysfunctional family dynamics taken to their logical extreme, and human life reduced to a commodity on a… Read More »