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rants and raves of the best & worst of queer cinema


Something Like Summer

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Something like Summer the rather accomplished directing debut of David Berry from a script by Carlos Pedraza is full of surprises.  What starts out as a sweet LGBT romantic coming-of-age musical actually ends up as melodrama, and a very definite tear-jerker too. In between it covers a lot of ground always trying (and succeeding most of the time) it … Continue reading



The Pass

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The openly gay Brit actor Russell Tovey (TV’s Looking) currently wowing audiences in London’s Royal National Theater in previews of a revival of Angels in America, gives a tour-de-force performance as a closeted football player in The Pass.  In possibly a career-best, Tovey repeats a role which he first created in the stage play of the same … Continue reading





Summertime

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Italian filmmaker Gabriele Muccino is back on his home turf after a stint in Hollywood where, amongst other things, he directed two Will Smith movies.  His new movie is the story of two Italian teenagers and although Muccino, in a story he co-wrote with Dale Nall, briefly starts their tale in Rome, he moves the action to the … Continue reading



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