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Queer Matter : News, Reviews And Interviews
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Beginners
Father and son Hal and Oliver are beginners at relationships even at this late stage in their lives. Hal is 75, newly widowed, and declares himself gay and determined to make the most of the time he has left. Oliver on the other hand is 38, single, with a string of affairs in his past…
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FAT, SICK & NEARLY DEAD
If the title doesn’t scare you off, then this wee joyous journey that documents a tubby transforming himself into a trim hottie will so inspire you. Joe Cross is a successful Day Trader in Australia who has come to the conclusion that his 310 pounds and his 53” waist are the cause of his chronic…
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Carancho
The opening credits of acclaimed filmmaker Pablo Trapero (‘Lion’s Den’) latest movie contain the disturbing fact that some 8000 people die in car accidents in Argentina each year. It’s created a whole industry devoted to scamming victims out of insurance money which is the basis of this gripping bloody socio-drama thriller that makes for a…
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3 BACKYARDS
I’m been staring at a blank screen long after this movie finished trying to make some sense out what I had just seen. Its been some 11 years since filmmaker Eric Mendelsohn’s’ promising debut and Sundance Award winning movie ‘Judy Berlin’ and maybe he just used all that time to ‘over-think’ this totally incomprehensible follow…
