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Boy Meets Girl
Eric Schaeffer’s refreshing and enchanting drama about three 20 year-olds looking for love in a small backwater town in Kentucky gently challenges us to suspend our preconceived views on gender labels and be as open to what happens as these lovelorn kids are. Ricky is a confident and determined transgendered young woman who is marking…
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The 10 Year Plan
The good thing about J C Calciano’s latest take on hapless gay men struggling to find true love (but not nothing as deep as the meaning of life) is that within 10 minutes you know the whole story, give or take the odd line of embarrassing dialogue, and there is really no need to have…
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Trust Me
I did ‘trust’ actor turned writer/director Clark Gregg that after watching the trailer that this, his sophomore feature, was a comedy. Far from it, even though it has some comic moments this dark story of a Hollywood Agent whose career is sinking below rock bottom, is quite a depressing affair. Gregg stars as Howard Holloway…
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The Outrageous Sophie Tucker
The late great Sophie Tucker was one the World’s most popular and successful entertainers for the first half of the 20 Century. This very early superstar with her wonderful range of comic and risque songs was one of the first women in show business who pioneered the way grabbing top billing in Vaudeville Theater, on…
