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FILM REVIEW | Stranger By The Lake
★★★★ | Stranger By The Lake Alain Guiraudie’s intriguing new thriller is about as homoerotic as can be without crossing the divide into soft porn. It’s set on a tranquil isolated lake in a beautiful corner of the French countryside where the beach front is sparsely occupied by a handful of men sunbathing in the […]
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FILM REVIEW | GBF
★★★ | GBF When Tanner is accidentally outed in school, whilst the other boys in his class may resort to taunting and bullying him, the girls start to seriously compete for his attention. Three of the most popular teen girls in particular believe that if Tanner would be their G (ay) B (est) F(riend), which […]
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FILM REVIEW | Free Fall / Freier Fall
Free Fall (or Freier Fall, to give it its German title) is an award-winning drama from director Stephen Lacant. It has been branded a sort of German Brokeback Mountain, and indeed there are parallels between the two movies, but in some ways Free Fall is more gritty, more rooted in the present day. Marc would […]
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FILM REVIEW | Interior Leather Bar
★★★ | Interior Leather Bar Director William Friedkin claims that he had to take his notorious movie Cruising about the gay S&M sub-culture to the US Ratings Board on 50 occasions before they would give him a ‘R’ certificate that permitted it to be shown in cinemas. Whether that is totally true or not is […]
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FILM REVIEW | House Of Boys
★★★★ | House Of Boys The blurb and the cover on this DVD doesn’t do it justice. It gives the impression of some sleazy b-movie, lots of gyrating hips, few (if any) articles of clothing and even less of a plot line. This isn’t true!
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FILM REVIEW | I Do
I followed the twitter feed on this movie well before it finally arrived on my doorstep to review. David W Ross, the star and force behind the movie, has an engaging twitter presence – playing on his good looks and obvious talent, and witty banter. David is a former member of ’90’s boyband Bad Boys […]
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FILM REVIEW | Leave It On The Floor
If, like me, you’re a sucker for a musical about voguing set in LA, with a mainly unknown cast and containing some catchy tunes you’ve never heard of – this is the movie for you! The music is original, with the tittle track being one of the strongest – but wait till you hear the […]
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FILM REVIEW | Bashment
Developed from his original stage show, director Rickki Beadle-Blair explores the controversial subjects of class, racism and homophobia in dance hall music in this contemporary urban drama.
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FILM REVIEW| I Want Your Love
★★★★ | I Want Your Love is collaborative film between gay porn studio NakedSword and independent filmmaker Travis Mathews. Jesse is an aspiring artist who feels creatively blocked because of the state his finances and his massive amount of debt. After spending the last decade in San Francisco, Jessie decides to move back home to […]
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FILM REVIEW | Transylvania
★★★★★ Transylvania What do you do when the person you want so badly doesn’t want you, even when you’re pregnant and have travelled across Europe to find him? That’s the basic premise of this film – what happens afterwards…
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FILM REVIEW | Keep The Lights On
★★★★★ | Keep The Lights On This award winning and Sundance Festival selected film is an intricate look at the lives of two men who enter into a relationship in 90s New York. Directed by Ira Sachs. Erik is a Danish documentary film maker who meets Paul via a telephone-sex chat-line. Erik is anxious about […]