Netflix’s two major musicals : Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom and The Prom

  Netflix has not one, but two big musical films about to be released and vying for both our hearts, minds  and  Academy Awards too. The first one Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, an adaptation of August Wilson’s  Tony Award Winning play about the Chicago blues titan. With  Viola Davis giving a sublime performance in the … Continue reading

Netflix’s period crime drama BODIES stars Kyle Stoller as the most handsome (closeted) detective

  Bodies is a new Brit TV series about four detectives in four different time periods of London who find themselves investigating the same murder.  In it, Kyle Soller plays Detective Inspector Hillinghead who is seen in the aftermath of discovering the body in 1890. As he questions a photographer, Henry Ashe (George Parker), who … Continue reading

Netuser: a new short queer thriller streaming online

  Queer writer/director Eric Rosen’s new short thriller film NETUSER all started to formulate in his mind last year after he had a nightmare. “I had dreamed that [then candidate] Pete Buttigieg was assassinated,” says Rosen. “I woke from it really shaken. I couldn’t lose it. At the same time, I was having these conversations … Continue reading

Never Again is Now : how the rise in antisemitism is a threat to all Jewish lives

  Evelyn Marcus a Dutch Jew starts her documentary acknowledging about her extremely good fortune that both her parents, and their families, were Holocaust survivors.  Growing up in a Amsterdam suburb as a comfortable middle class family in the post WW2 Years, the emphasis of the Marcus family was celebrating life to the fullest. This … Continue reading

Never Can Say Goodbye to The Communards 35 years later

    The Scottish singer/songwriter Jimmy Sommerville was one of the most important queer voices from the 1980s onwards.  This diminutive London-based performer provided so much of the music we danced to in the Clubs back then, where he also frequently hung out when he wasn’t on stage.  In 1982 he co-founded the Bronski Beat, … Continue reading

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