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Trying to make light of cancer in movies is never easy and attempts at doing so do not usually make for good box office as last year’s Sundance big hit Me, Earl & the Dying Girl sadly found  out when it failed to find an audience.  This new movie, which is the directorial debut of writer Chris Kelly, and … Continue reading



Finding Phong

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This documentary is the story of Phong a 20-something-year-old Vietnamese transwoman as she goes about realigning her body to finally becoming the woman she has always rightly felt she was.  The youngest of six siblings, Phong could never identify the source of her deep childhood depression until she left her small village home to go to … Continue reading




That’s Not Us

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The Summer is over and before Fall can kick in three 20-something-year-old couples who are good friends leave the NY for a weekend break together in a borrowed house on a pretty island somewhere.  As soon as they arrive and make claims to their bedrooms for their short  vacation the kvetching starts. Rather than focus on … Continue reading



The Firefly

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From Colombia, not a country that one usually associates with LGBT movies, comes this very touching melodrama about two women who are mourning the recent tragic death of the same man, and who surprise themselves with how things develop when they get together to share their loss.   Andres (Manuel José Chávez) had been estranged from … Continue reading



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