Nina is a very typical ballerina obsessively consumed with the New York City ballet company where she is desperate to be plucked from the Corps to be a Principal. Egged on by her former ballerina mother Erica who is desperate that her daughter gets the big break that she never had, and so exerts a … Continue reading
In 1968 a group of some 180 women machinists in the Ford Factory in Dagenham, a London suburb, defied the fiercely male entrenched society at the time and did the unheard of thing by going out on strike and demanding equal pay. Lined up against them were Trade Union Officials that cozied up to Management, … Continue reading
A young girl fed up with waitress-ing in a diner in some God-forsaken place in the Midwest, decides to pack it all in and get a one-way train ticket to LA to seek her fame and fortune. She stumbles on the Burlesque Club run by a fading Star that features a lot of very scantily … Continue reading
This totally stunning series of films are from a quartet of novels that fictionalized a series of horrific crimes including those committed by the Yorkshire Ripper an infamous serial killer, and also unprecedented widespread police brutality and corruption that shook the UK in the late 1970’s /early 80s when it all came to light. Shot … Continue reading
On November 4th 2008 the joyous news of Barack Obama’s historic victory being elected the 44th President of the US was tinged with great sadness for most gay men and women as on that same day as Californians, by a small majority, voted to overturn their State Supreme Court ruling that had permitted same sex … Continue reading