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FILM REVIEW | Cocoon
Cocoon is a true depiction of the trials and triumphs of female adolescence, a coming-of-age tale that every woman can relate to.
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FILM REVIEW | Funny Boy
A young boy is a bit different in Deepa Mehta’s charming and emotional new film Funny Boy.
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FILM REVIEW | County Lines – Drug dealing is hard work
Henry Blake, in his debut as director and writer, gives us an intimate and moving portrait of a young man groomed into the drug trade. In County Lines, we meet Tyler (Conrad Khan), who lives at home with his single mother Toni (a very good Ashley Madekwe) and his little sister Briony (Shauna Sim). Tyler […]
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FILM REVIEW | Dating Amber – Growing up gay is not easy
Fionn O’Shea and Lola Petticrew are just about perfect as a young couple who pretend to fall in love in1995 Ireland in the new film Dating Amber. But they are not an actual couple. You see Eddie (O’Shea) is Gay (though he won’t admit it), and Amber (Petticrew) is a Lesbian, and both are on […]
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FILM REVIEW | Proxima – Will melt your heart
A film that will bring tears to your eyes and will melt your heart.
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FILM REVIEW | Dedalus – startling and memorable
Dedalus is a fictional triptych portraying community, love, and loss. It’s a film that deals with homosexuality and age, with three very different storylines. And while one of them is a bit confusing, it’s a very good piece of work by a first-time director. A goodlooking young man (newcomer Alexander Horner, a natural) is a bit […]
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FILM REVIEW | Blackbird – A four-star weeper
If you’re in the mood for a good cry, watch the new film Blackbird.
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FILM REVIEW | Monsoon – Quiet and Meditative
From the man who brought us the brilliant ‘Lilting’ in 2014 returns with his new offering Monsoon. Lilting, directed by Hong Khaou, told the story about the death of a young gay man leaving his lover to deal with a grieving Chinese Cambodian mother. It was quiet and meditative as is Khaou’s new film Monsoon. […]
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FILM REVIEW | Dating Amber – Cute but predictable
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 LGBT+ offering to coincide with Pride season. And it’s a cute film, if you’re into […]
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FILM REVIEW | The Prince – Very sexy and dramatic prison drama
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 (Juan Carlos Maldonado), secretly in love with his best friend, in a fit of jealous […]
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FILM REVIEW | Tommaso – Going crazy in Rome
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 film from his roomy apartment he shares with his young (29) Moldovan girlfriend Nikki (a […]