‘My Brother’s Killer’ SXSW Review: A Macabre Real-Life Murder Goes Unsolved for Decades
A very cold case from 1990 gets reheated in “My Brother’s Killer.” Rachel Mason’s documentary probes the mysterious murder that year of 25-year-old William Arnold Newton, who had appeared in several gay porn films as “Billy London.” That modest notoriety, combined with the macabre nature of the deed and its unsolved status for decades, lured […]
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‘Pizza Movie’ Review: Gaten Matarazzo Goes from Stranger to Sillier Things in a Goofy Bad-Trip Comedy
If your first thought on encountering a film called “Pizza Movie” is that it’s kind of a dumb title, don’t worry: Brian McElhaney and Nick Kocher’s antic, frantic comedy is way ahead of you. Late in proceedings, a haphazard fourth-wall break throws us to the pair of writer-directors at their desk, agreeing with each other […]
By Guy Lodge
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Rachel Mason’s excellent 2019 documentary feature Circus of Books took us inside an ordinary mom and pop business with a difference. Starring her own mother and father, Barry and Karen, it told the story of the Masons’ flagship store, a bookshop that was, for a while, at the heart of the West Hollywood gay scene, […]
By Damon Wise
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