Flamboyant Pete Burns dies aged 57

Pete Burns the Brit pop-singer who became a Reality TV personality, died suddenly yesterday  after a massive cardiac arrest.  He was 57 years old.  Boy George mourning his passing, described Burns as ‘one of our great true eccentrics‘.  Burns found fame as a member of a proto-goth group originally called Nightmares in Wax before they … Continue reading

Fawlty Tower’s Manuel dies

The actor Andrew Sachs who played the hapless and much beloved waiter Manuel in Fawlty Towers (ranked number one in a list of the 100 Greatest British Television Programs by the British Film Institute) died recently aged 86.  Sachs had a long and distinguished career on TV and in Films that lasted almost 60 years, but … Continue reading

From Zero to I Love You

  For his sophomore feature film as a writer/director Doug  Spearman reunites with Daryl Stephens who not only starred in his Hot Guys with Guns debut, but who was also a co-cast member of the groundbreaking Noahs Arc TV series. Stephens plays Pete a successful copywriter in Philadelphia who has a penchant for dating men … Continue reading

Four More Shots Please : unmissable fab trashy TV from India

  Amazon Prime has just produced a new Indian web television show which they are claiming is their take on Sex and The City.  However from where we sit it looks much more like a Real Housewives  of Mumbai.  “Four More Shots” is the story of  four unapologetically flawed women (two in their 30s and … Continue reading

Funny Boy : a tender queer love story set in a time of war

  Having just reviewed Jon Garcia’s excellent drama about a relationship set and filmed in the COVID Lockdown, we are beginning to realize his title Love In Dangerous Times could have also be used by a whole multitude of other movies.  Especially ones with an LGBTQ story lIne. For example Funny Boy is a coming-of-age … Continue reading

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