And Then We Danced

Merab (Levan Gelbakhiani) has been training Georgian dance together with his girlfriend (Ana Javakishvili) for years when a new dancer (Bachi Valishvili) makes an appearance…  The love story may be…

A Very English Scandal

In 1961, Liberal MP Jeremy Thorpe (Hugh Grant) has a romantic affair with a troubled young man, Norman (Ben Whishaw); as Thorpe’s political career takes off, Norman gets back in…

Bohemian Rhapsody 

This biopic of the legendary rock band Queen and its singer Freddie Mercury was long in the making and suffered from a troubled production. The final results aren’t exactly bad,…

Moonlight: Three Shades of Blue

Alex Hibbert and Mahershala Ali. Photo: A24 I love the poster for this film. The colors are deep shades of blue, purple and cyan and the three faces of the…

Looking 

One of the most explicit TV series ever made about gay men followed a group of friends in San Francisco, with focus on the 29-year-old game designer Patrick (Jonathan Groff)…

Imitation Game: Another Beautiful Mind

Benedict Cumberbatch. Photo: The Weinstein Company The title refers to a paper that the brilliant mathematician Alan Turing wrote in 1950 where he introduced his now-famous test of a machine’s…

True Blood 

Alan Ball followed up Six Feet Under (2001-2005) with something completely different, even if death was a prominent theme on this show as well. The story began after the creation…

Far from Heaven 

Rainer Werner Fassbinder wasn’t the only one in awe of Douglas Sirk. In this drama, Todd Haynes recreated everything from Sirk's films to perfection. One in particular in fact, All…

American Beauty: Beyond Italian Upholstery

Mena Suvari. Photo: DreamWorks The story of how American Beauty, one of the most celebrated films of the 1990s, was made is the story of how a struggling TV writer…