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The sublime Brian Bedford as Lady Bracknell is now streaming online
Drag was not invented by Ru Paul as he would love us to believe. He simply catapulted into an orbit of excess that doesn’t bother trying to kid us into believing that a man has transformed into a woman. Drag and cross-dressing have their roots way back to Shakespeare’s time when all the female…
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Miss Hope Springs emerges post-pandemic as glamorous as ever
Most of us have sat out the Lockdown living in sweats and/or very questionable pajamas. They have helped us drop any pretense of ‘making an effort’ beyond overeating and putting on those extra Covid pounds. We carefully said ‘most’ because we know of one person in particular who refused to lower her standards. The…
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Enfant Terrible : the story of queer German auteur Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Enfant Terrible is a perfect name for this unsettling biopic about the queer German auteur Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Filmmaker Oskar Roehler spares no punches in telling the tale of this outrageous egomaniac who treated everybody in his life so vilely and in a manner that could not be justified by the fact that his films…
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Photographer MAGNUS HASTINGS captures the RAINBOW REVOLUTION
You’ll probably know LA-based Brit photographer, Magnus Hastings, for his stunning book WHY DRAG? which he published in 2016. It was an enormous success and went straight to the top of the portrait photography charts. Sir Elton John, who has an extremely impressive collection of photography, summed it up so succinctly when he said ”…
