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Jayson Bend : Queen and Country
Jayson Bend has to be the campest LGBT movie we have seen for ages. Billed as the World’s First Gay Secret Agent it is an amusing parody of a James Bond spy movie chock-a-block with very obvious double entendres. The hero Jayson Bend 009 (the handsome Davis Brooks) works in London at the Royal Intelligence…
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As If We Never Said Goodbye : Glen Close is Back
Twenty four years after she first starred in the Sunset Boulevard, first in L.A. then on Broadway where she won a Tony Award for her performance as Norma Desmond, Glen Close is back in a new revival of the show. This new production originated in London last year when the English National Opera (ENO) presented…
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The Shirtless Violinist plays Hallelujah and we melt
We really have no idea why the extremely talented musician Mathew Olsen goes by the name ‘Shirtless Violinist’, asides from the fact that he is topless (and very hot) and plays the violin. Whatever reason his new version of Leonard Cohen’s anthem ‘Hallelujah’ is totally sublime and exactly the calm and soothing sounds that we really need…
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Toni Erdmann
Winfried Conradi (Peter Simonischek) loves to clown around much to the annoyance of everyone including his ex-wife, and even the postman. This suburban German ex-schoolteacher now semi-retired with just a few reluctant pupils learning piano left, his life revolves around his elderly dog and his equally old mother who lives next door. When both of…
