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    Fire Song

    Even as queer cinema continues to keep evolving it is still something of a surprise to discover yet another new barrier has been broken with the first movie from an unexpected provenance. Writer/director Adam Garnet Jones has done just that by setting and actually making his feature film, a very tender coming-of-age drama, in a First Nation reservation … Continue reading

    FIREFLIES : an Iranian gay man’s search for freedom

      After escaping from Iran where he was persecuted for being gay, Ramin (Arash Marandi) mistakenly takes the wrong freighter out of the port and ends up stranded in Vera Cruz Mexico.  It is hardly the vibrant city that it once was and is now decaying and demoralised like so many of people who seem … Continue reading

    FIRST DAY for a transgender girl at High School @ HULU

      Full credit to the Australian TV Channel ABC ME for both their insight and judgement for producing this excellent children’s TV mini series FIRST DAY  about a transgender girl’s first year of high school.   Originally an award winning short film,  it stars transgender actor Evie Macdonald as Hannah, who must face the challenges that … Continue reading

    First Look at DEAD HOT a new Brit queer romance thriller to be screened on Prime Video

        Prime Video has just released the first trailer of an intriguing-looking sic-part queer comedy thriller.  Dead Hot is set in Liverpool UK (it has an officially recognized  Gay Quarter) and it explores themes of “family, class, love, trauma, and identity”. It tells the story of two twentysomethings Elliot and Jess, best friends united … Continue reading

    Five Dances

    Alan Brown’s latest movie has one of the most accurate titles that pulls no punches and is exactly what it promises i.e five dances. Held together by the strands of a wisp of a tenuous plot, it is however still a sweet and sensual coming-out-tale thanks to the presence of a charming young dancer who … Continue reading

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