Directed by Mike Nichols The Birdcage is a sweet, slapstick comedy about two gay men posing as a man and wife for the introduction to the very conservative parents of their son's bride-to-be. It contains all the expected sources of humor and conflict as well as the inevitable revelations in the third act. But those … Continue reading The Birdcage (1996)
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Night Moves (1975)
Directed by Arthur Penn A film noir with shades of Robert Altman's The Long Goodbye and Roman Polanski's Chinatown, Night Moves is a Los Angeles-based detective story in which the private eye hero finds himself in over his head in a convoluted plot wherein nothing is as it seems. In contrast with those other two films, with finales … Continue reading Night Moves (1975)
Mississippi Burning (1988)
Directed by Alan Parker It's 1964, and two FBI detectives descend on a small town in Mississippi in search of three boys who have gone missing. We know these boys (two white, one black) have been murdered by the Klu Klux Klan, so the detective's journey has little to do with the search itself but … Continue reading Mississippi Burning (1988)
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