queertiques
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Kill The Monsters
This very ambitious dramedy is the sophomore feature film from writer/director/actor Ryan Lonergan who also produced and edited too. It is a very clever American allegory that tells the tale of a charming gay ‘throuple’ who embark on a road journey right across the country when the newest member of their partnership gets a…
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Conversations With Gay Elders: Kerby Lauderdale
Having directed/produced two major queer documentaries in the past : The Cockettes (2002) and We Were Here (2011), Emmy Award nominated filmmaker David Weissman has now created a documentary storytelling project focused on older gay men. In each of his ‘Conversations With Gay Elders’ Weissman conducts interviews with gay men in their 70’s as they…
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Mapplethorpe
Filmmaker Ondi Timoner’s spirited attempt to capture the very essence of the sheer genius who was Robert Mapplethorpe in this new scripted biopic, sadly leaves us asking for more. In the two decades of his short life that are portrayed by Matt Smith playing the troubled photographer shows a self-centred man who could manipulate…
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Sodom
Brit film critic Mark Wilshin steps behind the camera for his very impressive feature film debut with this enthralling passionate love story. The action which takes place on one single night in Berlin when 20 year old Will (Pip Brignall) a bridegroom-to-be has been abandoned by his mates handcuffed to a streetlamp wearing nothing…
