Bizarre

Lest there be any doubt we should start by saying that his new movie from French director Etienne Faure truly deserves its title more than any other cutting edge movie released on the fringes that we have seen this year. It is actually taken after the name of the Brooklyn Cabaret Club that 18-year-old Maurice … Continue reading

Black Butterflies

  It’s so hard not to think of Sylvia Plath when you watch this heart-wrenching biopic of the celebrated but deeply troubled South African poet Ingrid Jonker as both of then took their own lives at a young age.  Plath was just 30 when she poisoned herself in 1963, and Jonker drowned herself two years later … Continue reading

Black Divaz

As part of the celebrations of the 40th Anniversary of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, NITV an Australian TV Channel commissioned filmmaker Adrian Russell Wills to make Black Divaz. This totally exhilarating hour-long documentary followed six rather fabulous indigenous Drag Queens as they assembled to take part in the very first Miss First Nations Drag Queen competition. This … Continue reading

Black Hats are The New Black

  You don’t have to be Jewish to enjoy the thoroughly entertaining award-winning Israeli award winning series The New Black , but it does help. Set in an upscale Yeshiva in Jerusalem, the story is about four young ‘shababnicks’.  This we soon learn is a term for a young ultra-Orthodox person who leaves his or … Continue reading

BLACK LODGE : part film screening and part industrial rock opera

  Part film screening and part industrial rock opera concert, BLACK LODGE is on the disturbing and complicated mythologies of the queer surrealist writer William S. Burroughs (Naked Lunch). Created by David T Little and produced by Beth Morrison Projects. Black Lodge just had its World Premiere featuring glam opera band Timur & the Dime … Continue reading

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