'Milk': Timely, and Hap's pick for No. 1 film of the year.By Hap Erstein After viewing some 300 movies last year, it all comes down to these: 1. Milk (dir. Gus Van Sant; w/ Sean Penn, James Franco, Josh Brolin) Beyond a biography of rising and eventually slain San Francisco politico Harvey Milk, this film tells a parallel tale of the rise of the gay right movement in … [Read more...]
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Sean Penn (center) stars as Harvey Milk in Milk.FILM: The year-end Oscar deadline is approaching, so the studios start rolling out their prestige product, like Milk, the superb biography of openly gay San Francisco board of supervisors member Harvey Milk, played by Sean Penn in an award-worthy performance and directed by Gus Van Sant in a career comeback. Opening locally on … [Read more...]