The Best of Ramon Mendez is nearly three hours of eight scenes from eight movies which find the good looking Latino hunk in four duos and four trios (one underwater!) with men who often look just like him. Plus some slick twinks and youths, carrying on in a john, a jungle, a park, a pool, a bar, a bathhouse, a bizarre bedroom, a back alley, and backstage at a go-go bar! Scenes are all beautifully shot and the men all beautifully shot. Movies excerpted are 8 Inches from Brazil, Jungle Cruisers, Just between Us, Poolside Heat, Bananas from Brazil, Underwater, Doing the Tricks, and 8 Inches from Brazil 2!
As a huge fan of Sean Baker’s Tangerine, The Florida Project, and Red Rocket, I’ve wanted to watch Anora since before it even was released. But life got in the way, my watchlist grew, and honestly, the fact that it was marketed as a romantic comedy put me off. Even with all the critical praise and the five Academy Awards it won last year, I just kept postponing it indefinitely.
“And I think to myself….what a wonderful world”. Louis Armstrong sang about this notion via his classic 1967 song, an ode to witnessing elements of our life that should be but some reminders of exactly what that concluding line of each verse indicates. Now we see our contemporary realities and, just being honest, it makes a sentiment like this seem SO overtly far away….perhaps even impossible….to accept or believe could be. It sounds harsh, but again, so much of what is occurring speaks not to beauty, but bedlam.
Lin-Manuel Miranda's Tony-winning musical translates beautifully to the screen.
'Run This Town' takes an unflinching look at the Rob Ford scandal that shook Toronto to its core while using fictional millennials to drive a concise story .
Battles will come and go and queer people do die for their identity and fights for rights, but that doesn’t mean the gays don’t deserve their happy endings in stories.
