BOOKSMART : a superb coming-of-age tale with rising star Beanie Feldstein

  Queer actress Beanie Feldstein, the younger sibling of actor Jonah Hill,  had a recent stint appearing in Hello Dolly on Broadway in the shadows of Bette Midler, but after her stunning breakthrough performance in Booksmart she is bound to always be upfront and center from now on.  A star is really born.  Feldstein plays  … Continue reading

Booksmart : the lesbian high school comedy that everyone is talking about

  One of the most successful premieres at SXSW Film Festival this year was a lesbian high school comedy that has been the subject of an enormous amount of buzz.  This is the story of lesbian Amy (Kaitlyn Dever) who has spent the whole of her last year studying like mad to get straight ‘A’s.  … Continue reading

Boom Bust Boom

At first glance the whole concept of a movie that seeks to look at the rather complicated  practices of the global financial markets that keep leading us in and out of crisis  being written and directed by Terry Jones a member of Monty Python, seems somewhat insane. It is however anything but, as Jones has … Continue reading

Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat

  There already have been several documentaries about the life of Jean-Michel Basquiat who is considered to be one of the greatest artists of the 20th Century, but Sara Driver’s new one just focuses purely on his late teenage years.  There is no discussion on his childhood in Brooklyn or how he ended up in SoHo the first place, as … Continue reading

Boris Johnson Wants Us To Leave

Boris Johnson the right-wing heterosexual Mayor of London wants the Brit LGBT community to support the campaign for Britain to leave the European Community once and for all.  The motive for the country to want to completely isolate itself again is meant to be mainly for economic reasons, but it has a lot more to … Continue reading

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