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About Jeffery Berg

Jeffery Berg, a writer who lives in Jersey City, NJ, is a frequent guest on the Retro Movie Love Podcast. His poetry has appeared in various journals, and his film writing can also be found on AwardsWatch and on his blog, jdbrecords.com.

Ponyboi

A tense drug thriller with a magnetic character at its core.

By |June 26th, 2025|Crime|0 Comments

Garland Jeffreys: The King of in Between

A revealing overview of the musician's career and music that should appeal to both longtime fans and the uninitiated.

By |June 5th, 2025|Music|0 Comments

Jane Austen Wrecked My Life

If only life was like a Jane Austen novel.

By |May 27th, 2025|Romantic Comedy|0 Comments

Bonjour Tristesse

A contemporary take of Françoise Sagan’s 1954 novel that is elegant and intriguing, but also restrained and austere.

By |May 1st, 2025|Book adaptation|0 Comments

On Swift Horses

A mix of conventional Hollywood gloss and scrappy, lusty, unbridled rebellion, starring Daisy Edgar-Jones and Jacob Elordi.

By |April 25th, 2025|Book adaptation|0 Comments

The Wedding Banquet

The delightful cast enhances this remake.

By |April 17th, 2025|Comedy|0 Comments

The Visitor

Bruce LaBruce’s reworking of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 1968 Teorema is sex-positive, celebratory, and feverishly explicit.

By |April 4th, 2025|DVD/Streaming/On Demand, Satire, Sci-fi|0 Comments

Viet and Nam

Audacious, expressionistic, and evocative, Viet and Nam blends a secret romance between two young male coal miners with reverberations of the historic past.

By |March 27th, 2025|Asian, GLBT, Top Picks|0 Comments

100,000,000,000,000, When the Phone Rang, Windless | First Look 2025

The festival takes viewers to glitzy, gaudy Monaco; the former Yugoslavia; and a rapidly changing Bulgarian village.

By |March 14th, 2025|Festivals, Teen, War|0 Comments