FILM REVIEW | Freaks (1932) Cinema Re-release
★★★★ | Freaks (1932) Cinema Re-release Hollywood Classics presents a cinema release of “Freaks” – in cinemas from 12th June 2015 This classic opens with a sideshow barker shouting about […]
Putting The 2015 Ford Focus Through Its Paces
The common or garden hatchback has had a bit of a rough time of late. With everyone and their dog all after a high-riding SUV like the Nissan Juke or […]
FILM REVIEW | Meet The Fokkens
69-year-old identical Dutch twins Martine and Louise Fokken give a new meaning to the word sexagenarian. Both of them have been working as prostitutes in Amsterdam’s red light district for […]
FILM REVIEW | More Than Friendship
★★★ | More Than Friendship Twenty-something-year-olds Lukas, Mia and Jonas have been best friends since their childhood, but then three years ago this all changed. They fell in love with […]
FILM REVIEW | Folsom Forever
★★★★ | Folsom Forever Mike Skiff’s illuminating new documentary on the Folsom Street Fair, one of San Francisco’s iconic gay events, starts off by dispelling a few of the myths […]
RESTAURANT REVIEW | The House of Ho, Soho, London
Bang on Old Compton Street lies The House of Ho (and according to a rather comical page on their menu; “We might be called Ho’s but we are, at least, […]
FILM REVIEW | A Most Violent Year
★★★★★ | A Most Violent Year Ok, a film that’s set in 1980 (my era) and stars Oscar Isaac (W.E. and Inside Llewyn Davis) and Jessica Chasten (Interstellar and Zero […]
FILM REVIEW | Italy
★★★★★ | Love It or Leave It. In 2009 I remembered being totally enamored with an irrepressible young Italian gay couple that documented the struggle of acceptance of gay rights […]
FILM REVIEW | Candid Love
★★ | Candid Love Filmmaker Kurtz Frausun’s voyeuristic record of an ill-fated relationship between two desperately troubled men is a disturbing sight that raises all sorts of questions. The first […]
FILM REVIEW | Rosewater
This rather tense drama opens with Iranian journalist Maziar Bahari been awoken by Investigators in his mother’s house in Tehran and subsequently hauled off to jail. Then in a flashback, […]
THEATRE REVIEW | Carrie The Musical
A musical adaptation of Stephen King’s supernatural novel Carrie, which was a hit 1976 film, has just opened, and it’s very good! It’s hard to believe that music could be […]