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FILM REVIEW | Silent Youth
Marlo a young engineering student is taking a break from school and is visiting a girlfriend in Berlin. When she goes off to work, he takes off to explore the city. Crossing the street he momentarily links eyes with another man, and after the pass, they take furtive looks back at each other. Moments later as he crosses […]
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FILM REVIEW | Appropriate Behaviour
The story peters out with little conclusion other than the fact that Ms Akhavan is an immensely talented performer and is a powerful presence on the screen. I am sure that we will see a great deal more of this future star.
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FILM REVIEW | In Their Room: London / Berlin / San Francisco
US Filmmaker Travis Mathews is a professional voyeur. His documentary movies all focus on gay men and their intimacy and are very raw and explicit. His most successful project to date is ‘Interior Leather Bar’ where he, and a somewhat obsessed James Franco, pieced together what they thought maybe the content of the chunk of […]
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FILM REVIEW | Boys On Film 12: Confessions: Applauded For Their High Production Values
Boys On Film 12: Confessions | ★★★★★ UK film distributor Peccadillo Pictures much-acclaimed series of gay short films BOYS ON FILM has a new 12th Edition called CONFESSIONS. Like all the previous collections this shockingly-good compilation of movies from mainly first-time filmmakers around the world features different stories about the lives of young gay men. […]
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FILM REVIEW | Who’s Afraid Of Vagina Wolf?
★★ | Who’s Afraid Of Vagina Wolf? Anna has just turned 40. She’s a chubby Cuban/American lesbian filmmaker, lonely, depressed and with more than a generous helping of self-pity that she loves to wallow in. At her birthday party to mark her entry into middle-age she wears a giant vagina costume which may get her […]
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FILM REVIEW | You And The Night
The opening sequence of French writer/director Yann Gonzalez debut feature starts with confusion that never really eases up through this avant-garde art-house film. ★
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FILM REVIEW | The Way He Looks
The lazy summer is over and Leo and his best friend Giovana are back in High School for the new term when curly headed new boy Gabriel joins the class for the first time.★★★★★
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FILM REVIEW | Man At Bath
★ | Man At Bath Emmanuel is a man of very few words, a hustler and the live-in lover of Omar. They live in an apartment in a tower block in Gennevilliers, a working-class suburb of Paris. When Omar announces that he is going to New York for a week to work on a film […]
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FILM REVIEW | Getting Go
For three weeks in the summer of 2012 filmmakers Cory James Krueckeberg and Tom Gustafson (the producer/director behind the cute ‘MARIACHI GRINGO’ and the gay cult film ‘Were The World Mine’) followed two guys all over New York with a camera and a script and nothing else. ★★★★★ Tanner, a slightly nerdy recent college grad had […]
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FILM REVIEW | Getting Go, The Go Doc Project
★★★★★ | Getting Go, The Go Doc Project For three weeks in the summer of 2012 filmmakers Cory James Krueckeberg and Tom Gustafson (the producer/director behind the cute ‘MARIACHI GRINGO’ and the gay cult film ‘WERE THE WORLD MINE’) followed two guys all over New York with a camera and a script and nothing else. […]
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FILM REVIEW | Any Day Now
★★★★★ | Any Day Now So, here’s the thing, I can be an old, hard cynical fart when I want to be – but occasionally, just occasionally along comes something that makes me weep like a baby. This film is one of those things. What starts out as a simple story of love and acceptance […]