5 min movie guide
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PRIVATE ROMEO
Over a weekend eight male high school cadets are left behind when the rest of the McKinley Military Academy go away on an Exercise and they are ordered to carry on with their studies regardless. In the English Literature Class they are studying ‘Romeo and Juliet‘ and the two young men reading the leads begin…
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THE IMPOSTER
This is the implausible true story about a young dark French man passing himself off as a blond American teenager who had been missing for some years. I actually remember reading this story in The New Yorker a while back and was flabbergasted then, but now seeing the whole scenario skillfully re-enacted on the big…
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THIS IS WHAT LOVE IN ACTION LOOKS LIKE
1n 1973 the American Psychiatric Association declassified homosexuality as a mental disorder. Later that same year ‘LOVE IN ACTION’ was founded by an evangelical Christian ministry specifically ‘to restore those trapped in sexual and relational sin through the power of Jesus Christ’ i.e. to forcible make gay men straight. As the oldest established ‘ex-gay’ organization…
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THE VOW
Luck is unpredictable. Take this weekend, when on Friday 13th I became a US Citizen (outstanding good luck) and then on Saturday and Sunday I saw back to back movies starring Channing Tatum (exceptional bad luck). Ex male stripper/fashion model/dancer Mr Tatum got his big break as a disadvantaged dancer in ‘Step Up’ and has…
