Author, Journalist and Activist Paul Burston talks about his memoir “WE CAN BE HEROES”

    When you read a resume like PAUL BURSTON‘s you feel (a) totally exhausted and (b) that you really should achieve more with your own life! He’s a journalist, author, activist, one-time editor, and founder and host of POLARI the LGBTQ+ literary salon. Before we started talking to him we knew a little about … Continue reading

AIDS DIVA The Legend of Connie Norman

  In the second half of the last Century when the LGBTQ community found its very survival was at risk, even at its darkest moments there was usually also a bright beacon of light and hope.  As the AIDS pandemic devastated us indiscriminately in the 1980’s most of us felt overwhelmed and helpless,  but there … Continue reading

A Screaming Man

Adam, a former National Swimming Champion, is the proud manger of the pool at a smart hotel in N’Djamena, the capital of Chad, where he has worked for the past 30 years.  Known by all simply as’ Champ’, he now has his grown up son Abdel working as he Assistant so all is right in … Continue reading

A Separation

  It’s rare to get the whole crux of a movie in an opening scene but that’s exactly what happens here when we see Nader & Simin facing a judge on their own in an otherwise empty room arguing about getting a divorce.  They are a successful middle-aged professional couple living in present day Iran who had agreed in principle … Continue reading

A SOMEWHAT GENTLE MAN

This is a somewhat gentle deadpan comedy that takes its time to draw you in.  Set in the outskirts of a bleak town in Norway, it is the story of Ulrik a middle-aged murderer just released from prison, whose attempts at becoming a reformed man are thwarted by Jensen, his former gang boss who is … Continue reading

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