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Southern Baptist Sissies
Fourteen years ago writer Del Shores followed his gay cult classic play ‘Sordid Lives’ with another dramedy that takes a hefty swipe at the conservative Baptists stance on homosexuality. Since its premiere it has been very successfully performed extensively in regional theaters throughout the country, but unlike its predecessor it has never found its way…
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Low Down
The renowned jazz musician Joe Albany was the only white pianist to have ever played bepop with the great Charlie Parker. It was height of the success that Albany achieved but something that is merely hinted at in this new sobering biopic that focuses more on the musician’s struggle with his addiction to alcohol and…
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The Dark Place
Keegan Dark has hyperthymesia which means he has visions of his extremely detailed autobiographical memory. The trouble is that both the visions and his memory are more than a tad fuzzy so it takes us some time to work out what they all can possibly mean. In fact its a good 30 minutes into this…
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The Theory of Everything
The remarkable life story of the world renowned physicist and cosmologist Stephen Hawking who was diagnosed with motor-neurone disease at the age of 21 years and defying medical prognosis of an imminent death went on to publish world-changing theories of relativity and quantum mechanics, turns out to be one of the most tender and romantic…
