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WEB JUNKIE @ Sundance 2014
China does nothing on a small scale. The Government has established 400 rehabilitation and treatment centers to ‘cure’ what they claim is over 24 million young people of compulsive Internet use … or as they crudely term it ‘electronic heroin’. This eye-opening documentary looks at just one of these military type camps and how it…
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The Case Against 8
On the morning of November 5th 2008 our euphoria over the election of Barak Obama as the first African/American President of the US was severely dampened when we learnt that voters in California had passed Proposition 8, albeit by a slim majority. Overnight they had taken away the legal right of same-sex marriages in the…
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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…
