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Stranger By The Lake : one of the steamiest queer thrillers ever
Alain Guiraudie’s intriguing new thriller is about as homoerotic as can be without crossing the divide into soft porn. Its set on a tranquil isolated lake in a beautiful corner of the French countryside where the beach front is sparsely occupied by a handful of men sunbathing in the buff. Behind them lies a small…
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Madam Baterflai
The sub-title of Argentinian filmmaker Carina Sama’s first documentary movie is ‘diversity within diversity’ which aptly covers this close study of the lives of four transvestites and one transsexual in Bolivia today. Each of the five have made an extraordinary journey to reach the point of where they are now, and whilst most of have…
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THE WOLF OF WALL STREET
Martin Scorsese’s take on a big time financial crook who swindled money out of a legion of small time people to finance his life of excess and debauchery is a piece of faction. Based on the real life of convicted stockbroker Jordan Belfort whose Firm fraudulently sold billions of worthless penny shares, it does however…
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Four More Years
When David Holst believes that the Liberal Party he leads is winning the General Election, he thinks he will be Sweden’s next Prime Minister. But life and politics never ever go exactly as planned and when the Democratic Socialists are returned to power instead, David starts to question if he should not think about a…
