Church and State: the time that The Mormons didn’t get their own way

  One of the major surprises of the struggle for same-sex marriage in the US was that one of the reddest States of all got it on their Statute books a whole year before the Supreme Court made it legal throughout the entire country. Utah is still the one US  state where not only Church … Continue reading

Churchill

This new biopic on one of the 20th Century’s most famous political leaders is a re-imagining of the few days leading up to Operation Overload which the Allied High Command were preparing to launch in June 1944 to finally get a foothold back in Europe to hasten the end of the War. Churchill (Brian Cox) the … Continue reading

Ciao

Re-watching Yen Tan’s ‘Pit Stop’ ….. undoubtably one of the best gay movies this year …. prompted me to take another of the movies that he helmed in 2008 as that too has a remarkably touching romance that also, for very different reasons, is not destined to last for long   ‘Ciao’ starts with Jeff coping … Continue reading

Cicada: a tale of overcoming trauma to finding happiness

  We are not certain of how much of Matt Fifer is in his debut feature film Cicada which he wrote, co-directed and starred in , but it has such a solid ring of authenticity that it must be based on his life story. Fifer plays  twenty-something- year-old Ben who has just broken up with … Continue reading

Cilla Black No 1 at Christmas?

  The Brits are this week re-releasing  the hit single of Cilla Black singing “You’re My World” in the fervent hope it will be the Christmas No 1 Song this year which has always a traditional highlight for the music business in the UK.      Cilla, a discovery of her fellow Liverpudlians The Beatles, recorded this … Continue reading

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