It’s completely impossible not to be swept away by filmmaker Lisa Cortes’s enthusiastic admiration for Little Richard the undisputed King of Rock’ n Roll (the title that Elvis mistakenly thought was his). Little R is a charismatic fireball whose roller coaster life on and off the stage had so many highs before it reverted … Continue reading
In Ira Sach’s follow up to his highly acclaimed 2013 hit ‘Keep The Lights On’, love is also extraordinarily wonderful too. It’s the tale of George & Ben a devoted couple who have enjoyed a somewhat glorious life together in Manhattan for the past 39 years. Now that same-sex marriage is legal in NY they decide … Continue reading
Patrick Gale’s brilliant two-part story loosely based on his own parent’s marriage of compromise is by far the best part of the BBC TV’s excellent Queer Britannia series that screened in the UK earlier this year. The Man in The Orange Shirt are beautiful tales of love across two interconnected films highlighting the very … Continue reading
It’s hard to grasp the fact that Matthew Shepard should have been celebrating his 37th birthday this year if it hadn’t been for the tragic events of that fateful night 16 years ago on that desolate prairie outside of Laramie in Wyoming. So many of us still think of him as the slight short blond-haired … Continue reading
The prolific French/Canadian Xavier Dolan is unquestionably one of the ten best queer filmmakers today. And he’ll be at the top of of the list too. In 2009 at the tender age of 20 his debut film I Killed My Mother, which he wrote, directed, produced and starred in, won him three prestigious awards … Continue reading