Dropping The Soap
Taking aim at the banality of US Soap Opera is an easy target and the creators of the very entertaining web series Drop The Soap have a great deal of fun at parodying all the over-the-top aspects that have made them such a staple of Daytime Television for decades. ‘Colluded Lives’ the fictional ‘Soap’ at the … Continue reading
Drown
Len Smithy is the arrogant captain of the team of young sturdy lifeguards on the same stretch of Australian beach where his father had been before him, and his father before that. He’s won the Team’s annual challenge race five times now and is used to being the undisputed king of this patch of sand … Continue reading
Drunktown’s Finest
‘Sick Boy’ wants to enlist in the Military to provide for his girlfriend and their baby on the way but he keeps slipping into his old habits which get him into trouble. Nizhini was adopted and spent most of her adolescence boarding in private schools far away and is obsessed with locating her birth family. … Continue reading
DUST : Nowhere to run from awkward memories
Dust’s coming of age story is not the polished instagram version of puberty. It is as naïve, bare and unedited as a teens sexted video. Dust compellingly captures the exact moments between adult hood and childhood when the familiar people, places and bodies of earlier years no longer fit together. Painful as a pimple … Continue reading
Dykes, Camera, Action! a look at the history of lesbian filmmaking
In Caroline Berler’s excellent investigation into lesbian cinema, which is a must see for any queer cinephile, she attempts to give us a female version of The Celluloid Closet. It is a valiant attempt as there are not nearly as man queer women’s movies and they have always been overlooked by those produced by gay … Continue reading