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 […]
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 | The Full Monty, UK Tour 2015
★★★★ | The Full Monty, UK Tour 2015 In 1997, a film about unemployed steel workers turning into unlikely strippers became the most successful film in the UK (until it […]
FILM REVIEW | Private Romeo
★★★★★ | Private Romeo Over a weekend eight male high school cadets are left behind when the rest of the McKinley Military Academy go away on an exercise and they […]
FILM REVIEW | Futuro Beach
★★★★★ | Futuro Beach Karim Ainouz’s mesmerising melancholic drama starts and ends in a very similar fashion. In the opening scenes we see two motor bikers racing across the sand […]
FILM REVIEW | Hooked Up
★★★ | Hooked Up Technology is moving so fast and we now own more powerful processing power in our pockets (I mean your phone) than ever before. The cameras are […]
FILM REVIEW | Beyond The Walls
★★★★★ | Beyond The Walls This unexpected and rather remarkable film from first-time writer/director David Lambert realistically scrutinises the intimate details of the rise and fall of an edgy gay […]
FILM REVIEW | Broken Gardenias
★ | Broken Gardenias Jenni is a misfit and a nerd. She is so clumsy that she breaks most of the plant pots at the nursery where she works and […]