OBVIOUS CHILD : a rom com that dares to deal with abortion

The movie opens with a very confident Donna in the middle of her stand-up comedy routine in a small nondescript bar in New York. She is extremely funny and disarmingly honest as she talks candidly about the absurdities of her own life. The small audience love it and applaud her enthusiastically when she finishes her … Continue reading

Of all the queer love stories released this Christmas season, Netflix’s SMILEY stands heads and shoulders above the rest

  Of all the queer love stories released this Christmas season, Netflix’s SMILEY stands heads and shoulders above the rest.  After watching the sanitized don’t-frighten-the-children  (or the straight) offerings from both Hallmark and Lifetime TV, it’s so refreshing to see something so authentically queer. However, its creator Guillem Clua who adapted the 8-part series from … Continue reading

Of Girls And Horses

Alex is a sullen rather troubled teenager who has been sent by her adoptive mother to work one summer as an intern on a remote farm in Northern Germany in the hope that this will help her resolve some of her internal struggles.  She is taught by thirty-something-year-old Nina how to train horses with the … Continue reading

OF GODS

The whole crux of this film is whether 8 French Trappist Monks should leave their Monastery, and all the villagers who depend upon them, when the lives are threatened by a group of Terrorists in the midst of a horrific bloody civil war.  The time is 1996, and the setting is the Atlas Mountains in … Continue reading

OF GODS & MEN

The whole crux of this film is whether 8 French Trappist Monks should leave their Monastery, and all the villagers who depend upon them, when the lives are threatened by a group of Terrorists in the midst of a horrific bloody civil war.  The time is 1996, and the setting is the Atlas Mountains in … Continue reading

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