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Dusty Springfield : You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me
The sublime Dusty Springfield was so much more than the flamboyant figure she cut with her peroxide blonde bouffant hairstyle, evening gowns, and her signature heavy eye make-up. At her peak in the 1960’s she was one of the most successful British female performers, with six top 20 singles on the US Billboard Hot 100…
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Years and Years : Last minute signs of a grower from Russell T Davies & Russell Tovey
If you can get through the glib diversity of the first half of this new show the fertile mania of the last minutes suggest it will be worth it. Years and Years could become a dystopian roller coaster with an unpredictable and fun story arc. Years and Years by Dr Who’s Russell T Davis…
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All in My Family : how one traditional Chinese family accepted their gay son’s children
It was only as recent as 2013 that the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party finally announced the decision to relax the one-child policy. Up to this time families were only permitted by law to have one child so it’s surprising that Hao Wu the filmmaker helming this short documentary actually has a…
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We’ll be looking into the Eyes of Tammy Faye again very soon
In our mind The Eyes of Tammy Faye Baker is one of the very BEST documentaries that the queer filmmaking duo Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato have ever made. Their affectionate profile of the larger than life eccentric and glamourous woman who was dragged down when Evangelist husband Jim Bakker was indicted, convicted, and imprisoned on…
