The Sopranos was groundbreaking in its depiction of the Mafia. One of the more revealing storylines was when the mobster Vito Spatafore turned out to be gay and having a major crush on a short order breakfast cook he called Johnny Cakes. You didn’t see that in The Godfather. The series didn’t have any lesbian … Read more
John Waters has been called the “Pope of Trash” so often that the title may feel like a substitute for true analysis of his films. It gets at something real, of course. Few directors have devoted as much energy to dog feces, sexual deviance, bad mothers, criminal behavior, religious blasphemy,
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