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Alan Cumming : the new Queen of the Meat Market
Showtime TV have just taken over a passion project that out-gay Scottish/American actor Alan Cumming had been developing with director Rosemary Rodriquez (‘The Good Wife’) of a 30 minute dark comedy series based on the story of one of N.Y.’s most flamboyant restaurateurs Florent Morellet. Morellet opened the restaurant that bore his name in the early…
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Mississippi Grind
Curtis is a mystery and sort of remains one right to the very end of this intriguing road-movie about two inveterate gamblers. When we first meet this rather handsome and charismatic 30-something-year-old he turns up in a dingy casino in Dubuque, Iowa and very noisily crashes into a poker game in full swing. At the…
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Happy Birthday Pedro
Its the 66th Birthday of one of our very favorite gay filmmakers. From ‘What Have I Done To Deserve this?’ to ‘Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown’, ‘Bad Education’ and ‘All About My Mother’ etc. we have unreservedly loved ALL his movies. Here’s a clip of your last one that sums up how…
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Viva Ireland…. and other Oscar Hopefuls
When it comes to Countries selecting their Official Submissions to the Academy of Motion Pictures in the hope of being Nominated (an winning) a Best Foreign Picture Oscar we should never ever be surprised at what goes down. Of the 32 entries so far (last year there was a total of 83) four of the…
