Los angeles – Given the screeching teenage girls camped out for days in Toronto at MuchMusic awaiting the arrival of the cast of Twilight, you could be forgiven for thinking the new vampire romance pic is strictly for kids.
While it occasionally tries too hard, Repo! The Genetic Opera is an over-the-top, in-your-face and very gutsy (in every sense) cult classic in the making that could become the Rocky Horror Picture Show of the torture-porn generation.
Ballast sets as its dramatic locus a man, a woman and a child. All three live in a small town somewhere in the Mississippi Delta, though not all together. How they relate to one another, and …
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On the heels of her South African period piece, The World Unseen, Shamim Sarif delivers another lesbian love story, this one much flashier.
Growing Op might fizzle as comedy, but it does answer the question “Whatever happened to Rosanna Arquette?” The former A-lister, whose charm and acting skills are intact, plays the mother hen in a family involved in growing weed in the burbs.
It’s days after the American election, and you can sense the tension. In the wake of California’s passage of Proposition 8 banning gay marriage, the blogosphere – and a rally at Silver Lake in West Hollywood – is clogged with gay activists furious that a whack of black and Latino voters supporting President-elect Barack Obama could have voted against gays’ right to marry.
THURSDAY | NOV | 20 | 2008
- Cover Story
- Milk's man: James Franco
- Movie Feature
- Calling the spirit of Harvey Milk
- Oscar loves gays
- Movie Interview
- Tackling Twilight
- How to nail it
- Movie Reviews
- I Can't Think Straight
- Growing Op
- Ballast
- Repo! The Genetic Opera
- Milk
- Rep Cinema Feature
- The Burrowers
Movie Times & Mini Reviews
Rue Morgue magazine’s monthly CineMacabre movie night offers another look at J.T. Petty’s flawed but effective western-horror exercise The Burrowers after its local bow earlier this fall in TIFF’s Midnight Madness program.
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