Outrage - Movie Review and Synopsis
Kirby Dick focuses his camera on closeted politicians who lobby for anti-gay legislation in the U.S.
Linking you all to Out’s interview with Kirby Dick feels appropriate since, once upon a time — before the aforementioned mag looked and smelled like the men’s department at Barney’s, it used to engage in the practice of publishing the names of closeted men and women of influence. Consider rallying your friends and allies, think about how rad it would be if Act Up and the Mattachine Society were still active, and realize there are handfuls of people like former U.S. Senator Larry Craig who live horrible lives and actively oppress people of their own kind around the world.
Director: Kirby Dick
Stars: Barney Frank
Studio: Magnolia Pictures
Genre: Documentary
An origins story that follows the early life of James Howlett (Jackman), also known as Logan, and best known as Wolverine. The chronicle of his younger years as a mutant connects to his relationship and eventual falling out with Victor Creed/Sabretooth (Schreiber), and his fateful entry into the Weapons X project, the governmental program that turns willing and unwilling beings into living weapons.
A bachelor is haunted by the ghosts of his past girlfriends at his younger brother’s wedding.
Mala (Evan Rachel Wood) is a precocious girl living on the beautiful planet Terra, a place where peace and tolerance are celebrated. Unbeknownst to Mala and her fellow Terrians, the last inhabitants of Earth have exhausted the resources of their planet and those of three others, and are now searching for a new home. This Earthforce has discovered that the use of a Terraformer will make Terra habitable for humans but poisonous for Terrians. When the Earthlings embark on a hostile invasion of Terra, Mala’s father, Roven (Dennis Quaid), is kidnapped. Hoping to save her father, Mala captures and hides a crashed human pilot named Jim (Luke Wilson). While Mala nurses Jim back to health, the two forge a friendship and a plan that could save both the human race and the planet of Terra. Soon, however, they realize that peace will not be secured unless they can combat both the Terraformer and dark political forces that will stop at nothing in their drive to achieve power for power’s sake.
A multi-strand narrative set in early 1980’s Los Angeles, centered on an array of characters who represent both the top of the heap (a Hollywood dream merchant, a dissolute rock star, an aging newscaster) and the bottom (a voyeuristic doorman, an amoral ex-con). Connecting the intertwining strands are a group of beautiful, blonde young men and women who sleep all day and party all night, doing drugs — and one another –with abandon, never realizing that they are dancing on the edge of a volcano.
