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Queer Matter : News, Reviews And Interviews
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THE OFF HOURS
It’s really tough trying to relate or warm to a movie where every character bar one is so depressed. and this is one such case even though it really is not a bad wee film. It’s set in a small town diner where Francine a bored young unmotivated waitress works the night shift. Business is…
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SUNDANCE 2012
RWD’s take on some of the very best (and sadly a couple of the worse) movies from this year’s SUNDANCE FESTIVAL and hopefully (!) most of the good ones will hit your screens later in the year. Probably not your local Multi-plex but at the Art House/Indie Theater near you. Bethann Hardison is an African…
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WHORES GLORY
It’s tough watching Michael Glawogger’s documentary without dwelling (possibly too much) on one’s own moral viewpoint on prostitution. I’m not sure why he made the film even, apart from the fact that the women were there plying their trade anyway so why shouldn’t he record this? And at the end of this voyeuristic viewing,…
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Budrus
In 2003 the Israeli Government started construction on a Separation Fence in the Occupied West Bank BUT instead of going along the border line of the area, it cut right through Palestinian land. So much so, its planned route would have isolated six villages that would have then become completely land-locked. One of them was Budrus, and…
