This week on The Movie Gourmet – a new review of My Donkey, My Lover and I, plus four recommendations for the Frameline film festival – opening today in San Francisco and next week online.
CURRENT MOVIES
- Montana Story: a family secret simmers, then explodes. In theaters.
- The Duke: he finally gets his audience. In theaters.
- Downton Abbey: A New Era: harmless enough. In theaters.
- Everything Everywhere All at Once: often indecipherable and mostly dazzling. In theaters.
- My Donkey, My Lover and I: it had me at the title. In theaters.
- Hit the Road: a funny family masks their tough choice. Streaming at Laemmle.
- Like a Rolling Stone: The Life and Times of Ben Fong-Torres: tell me more. Netflix.
- Fanny: The Right to Rock: triple-threat trailblazers. In theaters (but hard to find).
- Jane by Charlotte: as mildly interesting as the subject. AppleTV.
- Mau: fact-based optimism and thinking big. Streaming at Laemmle.
ON VIDEO
The most eclectic watch-at-home recommendations you’ll find ANYWHERE:
- Dick Johnson Is Dead: funny, heartfelt and frequently bizarre. Netflix.
- The Women’s Balcony: a righteous man must keep his woman happy. Amazon, AppleTV, Vudu, YouTube.
- The Handmaiden: gorgeous, erotic and a helluva plot. Amazon (included with Prime), Vudu.
- Very Semi-Serious: glorious The New Yorker cartoons. Amazon, AppleTV, YouTube.
- Touching the Void: the gripping true life story of a mountaineer who had to cut his climbing partner’s rope. Amazon, AppleTV.
- The Women’s Balcony: a righteous man must keep his woman happy. Amazon, AppleTV, Vudu, YouTube.
- Electrick Children: magical Mormon runaways in Vegas. Amazon, AppleTV, YouTube.
- NUTS!: the rise and fall of a testicular empire. Amazon, AppleTV, Vudu, YouTube.
- The Imposter: you gotta see this. Amazon, AppleTV, Vudu, YouTube.
ON TV
On June 21, Turner Classic Movies will air A Bucket of Blood, a campy, minor horror film from 1959, more interesting as a window into beatnik culture. Can you dig it?