The Normal Heart

Growing up, coming of age and coming out at the tail-end of the AIDS crisis was a total mind-fuck of terrifying, confusing, emotionally-scarring proportions. (Run that “Pride” meme round your head why don’t you, while contemplating the Gay Cancer….) So: I missed out on the glorious bacchanalia, and landed at a time of fear and…

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In Time

In In Time, Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried are given a single metaphorical conceit – time is money – and asked to streeeeeeeeeetch it out into an entire 90 minute movie…. The results are not entirely unpleasing or unsuccessful – it’s got dashing Matt Bomer for a bit at the beginning, so how could it…

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