Although the title A Thousand Clouds of Peace Fence the Sky; Love: Your Being Loved Will Never End suggests a euphoric, pleasant story, in fact Mexican director Julián Hernández presents a noir film in black and white.  The title is from a poem by Pier Paolo Pasolini. Whereas John Rechy describes angst among reasonably mature gays in […]

When The Big Bounce begins, Native Hawaiians are protesting a real estate development that involves cutting down palm trees. Developer Ray Ritchie (played by Gary Sinise) is transforming land, possibly once occupied by a Native Hawaiian family, into a tourist resort on the North Shore of O`ahu, where we are occasionally treated to a view of surfing

What is the life of a male porn star like? Adored: Diary of a Porn Star, directed by Marco Filiberti, presents a very believable account of fictional Riccardo Soldari aka Riki Kandinsky (played by the director). Although flashbacks provide a glimpse into the porn star’s childhood, the story begins with his arrival at the family home

50 First Dates, the second film of 2004 to take advantage of the natural beauty of Hawai`i, is far more respectful of the Islands than the exploitative The Big Bounce. One day, on her father’s birthday, art teacher Lucy Whitmore (played by Drew Barrymore) breakfasted on a waffle diet and celebrated the birthday of her father

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl is a fantasy tale set at Port Royal, Jamaica, a seventeenth century fortress in the Caribbean (though actually filmed at St. Vincent), directed by Gore Verbinski. There is no native or slave population, just pompous British and mangy pirates. Caribbean pirates are featured as a videogame

LUTHER NAILS THE VATICAN’S SIMPLISTIC VIEW OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH A biopic about the life of Martin Luther is a most ambitious undertaking indeed, and director Eric Till has responded to the challenge with Luther as a study of a man whose ideas successfully challenge the ossified theology of Roman Catholicism under Leo XII as