Mr. Nice

  Howard Marks was a drug smuggler who, when on the run as a Wanted Criminal, stole the identity of a Denis Nice.   And according to this entertaining biopic based on his life it was a very appropriate name for him as everybody (except the police and customs officials) seemed to love this rather charming and outgoing fun-loving … Continue reading

Mr. Nice Jewish Boy DC Pageant Returns After Hiatus

    In my mind (!) I would be the perfect candidate for this competition……except I don’t live in DC, and sadly its too big a stretch to call me a boy …..or even nice.  But I am excited the pageant is back after a two-year Covid hiatus. So this is how it works, they … Continue reading

Mr Right

  This rather appealing romantic comedy follows the lives of three gay metrosexual couples in London. Harry hates being a TV producer and dreams of leaving his job to travel the world. He loves Alex, an aspiring actor who is struggling to create an identity for himself as a performer. Rugby player William’s nine-year-old daughter is … Continue reading

Mr Soul! the queer man who was the pioneer of Black TV in the US

  Growing up as a white Jewish kid in London in the 1960’s carried with it a great deal of cultural delights in a decade that was hailed as ‘swinging,’ but as I grow older I realise that my slice of middle-class England was so frightfully British. We may have given birth to the Beatles … Continue reading

Mr. Turner

Mike Leigh’s stunning biopic of J.M.W.Turner is the portrait of the leading English Romantic landscape artist who was evidently also quite a philanderer and misanthrope too. Set in the 1820’s (although Leigh never tells us that) the movie focuses on the last 20 years of the painter’s life when he was at the height of … Continue reading

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