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Greed : a satirical comedy about a story that in reality is far from funny.
Michael Winterbottom’s latest movie is a fast-paced satirical comedy about a story that in reality is far from funny. It’s the very skimpily veiled story of notorious Brit billionaire businessman Sir Philip Green who the British Parliament named as ‘the unacceptable face of capitalism’. Green used nefarious means to buy Topshop and half a…
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New Music this week ….Kyle Motsinger: Single, Lauv: Lonely and Mike Taveira : Curious
New York-based queer singer/songwriter Kyle Motsinger has just the released the third single and music video from his upcoming sophomore album “Whenever” is all about being patient for the right person to come along. We don’t know whether this is autobiographical or not, but its hard to imagine that tall striking bearded redhead would…
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Parking : a compelling short LGBTQ film from Iran
Parking is a very rare breed as it is one of the few Iranian LGBTQ movies ever made, This 9 minute short directed by Ahmad Seyfipour is the tale of a burglary that goes wrong. When a man is stealing from a garage he comes across two men having sex on the back seat…
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Treatment By Adrian Bridget
It’s difficult to write about this text, mainly because it defies categorisation and scrambles the logic of what we understand by the noun, “novel”. Whilst the front cover proclaims it is a novel, the inside blurb calls it ‘a mash-up of love story, pornography, art criticism, literary appropriation, and essayistic meditation, operating on the peripheries…
