Ireland may be one of our most favorite countries in the world but then again we have never lived there and had to suffer any of the powerful and evil bigotry that the Church have imposed on so much of the population. If you have seen either The Magdalene Sisters or Philomena you will know … Continue reading
For the past decade gay married couple Fausto Fernos and Marc Felion have very cleverly combining their two biggest passions (besides each other) namely cooking and drag queens. The guys say that although the concept of a cooking show with drag queens may seem like an unusual mix, it actually fits together like peanut butter and … Continue reading
The immediate future of Brazilian queer cinema may not look to rosy right now after the vitriolic homophobic President Jair Bolsonaro has recently declared that government funds will now be withheld from cinema projects containing LGBTQ content. Hopefully this (and he) will not last long as Brazil has become such a valuable source for … Continue reading
If I had one regret about by youth (!) it would be that I never really studied enough Shakespeare in school, which is so sad as his incomparable prose just sings. Especially when it is performed as well as in actor/director Ralph Fiennes’s new modern-day take on Coriolanus : yet another of Will’s plays that … Continue reading
When I look down the long list of the hundreds of films that Roger Corman has either directed or produced I have no recollection of seeing a single one of them. That obviously is not the case because as a teenager growing up in Britain in the 19..’s (well a few decades ago!) I lived … Continue reading