An engaging but ultimately flawed twink flick that reinforces the idea that you can only be openly gay in the big city, rather than remaining in the provincial community in which you grew up. Dating Amber – Amazon Prime’s latest […]
Jacqui Weaver is memorable as a mother who mourns the death of her son – a drag queen – in the terrific new film Stage Mother. Maybelline (great name), married to very conservative Jeb (Hugh Thompson) who never quite accepted […]
A young man is sent to prison for killing another man in The Prince – a film which is not your typical prison movie. The Prince (El Principe), a homoerotic prison drama, out now, is set in a 1970’s Chilean prison. Jaime […]
David France is quickly becoming one of the best documentary filmmakers of our generation. In 2012 he brought us the riveting How to Survive a Plague – about the early years of the AIDS epidemic and the ACT UP activists […]
EUROVISION SONG CONTEST THE STORY OF FIRE SAGA – A big-budget comedy musical extravaganza about our favourite pan European gay as anything song contest with added Australia of course. A perfect very knowing made with love homage including all the […]
Very intense and dramatic, The Ground Beneath My Feet is a pure psychological thriller that will mess with your head. German with English subtitles, and released in Germany last year, the film follows Lola (Valerie Pachner), a very competitive business […]
Willem Dafoe gives one of his best performances as a film director struggling to come to terms with life. Dafoe is the title character – ‘Tommaso’ – an older American ex-pat living in Rome. He is putting together a new […]
I always look forward to the release of a Woody Allen film because I know exactly what I’m going to get. But this time, with A Rainy Day in New York, we get Woody in top form. This release has […]
The soapiest of gay soap operas arrives in the form of From Zero to I Love You. Scott Bailey stars as Jack Dickinson, very handsome and successful, with a fun and lively and attractive wife Karla (Keili Lefkovitz), two adorable […]
A woman disappears in the snowy mountains of France – and it’s her death that links several people together in the very dramatic French film ‘Only the Animals.’ The opening shot in this film is of a black man with […]
A film about the author J.D. Salinger that was originally shot in 2016 is now released in the UK and is actually not half bad. ‘Rebel in the Rye’ is about J.D. (Jerome David Salinger) and the years leading up […]
