“Secretary” (S1 E102) “Secretary” is a 2002 American erotic romantic drama comedy film directed by Steven Shainberg and written by Erin Cressida Wilson, based on the short story “Secretary” by Mary Gaitskill. Starring Maggie Gyllenhaal and James Spader, the film explores the intense relationship between a dominant lawyer and his submissive secretary, who indulge in various types of BDSM activity such as erotic…
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🎬Movie Reviews🎬: “The Rocky Horror Picture Show”
“The Rocky Horror Picture Show” (S1 E92) “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” is a 1975 musical comedy horror film by 20th Century Fox, produced by Lou Adler and Michael White and directed by Jim Sharman. The screenplay was written by Sharman and actor Richard O’Brien, who is also a member of the cast. The film is based on…
🎬Movie Reviews🎬: “Milk”
“Milk” (S1 E67) “Milk” is a 2008 American biographical film based on the life of gay rights activist and politician Harvey Milk, who was the first openly gay person to be elected to public office in California, as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Directed by Gus Van Sant and written by Dustin Lance Black, the film…
🎬Movie Reviews🎬: “The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert”
“The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert” (S1 E57) “The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert” is a 1994 Australian comedy-drama film written and directed by Stephan Elliott. The plot follows two drag queens played by Hugo Weaving and Guy Pearce and a transgender woman, played by Terence Stamp, as they journey across the Australian Outback from Sydney to Alice…
🎬Movie Reviews🎬: “The Danish Girl”
“The Danish Girl” (S1 E46) “The Danish Girl” is a 2015 biographical romantic drama film directed by Tom Hooper, based on the 2000 novel of the same name by David Ebershoff, and loosely inspired by the lives of Danish painters Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener. The film stars Eddie Redmayne as Elbe, one of the first known recipients of sex reassignment surgery, Alicia Vikander as…
🎬Movie Reviews🎬: “The Story of O”
“The Story of O” (S1 E26) French director Henri-Georges Clouzot wanted to adapt the novel to film for many years, which was eventually done by director Just Jaeckin in 1975 as Histoire d’O (“Story of O”) produced by Eric Rochat and Gérard Lorin, starring Corinne Cléry and Udo Kier. The film met with far less acclaim than the book. It was banned in the United Kingdom by…
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