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Sorry We Missed You : Ken Loach’s latest piece of brutal realism
For those cinephiles who worried that Ken Loach’s Palme D’Or Winner ‘I Daniel Blake’ may have been the last film from the veteran British director then his new one “Sorry We Missed You” is a welcome addition to his resume. Typical for this very socialist-committed man who always wears his heart on his sleeve,…
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Bollywood, the worlds campiest film genre, finally goes Gay.
Bollywood has just made its first ever gay rom-com and the news has spread like wildfire and its trailer has have 59 million hits in just one month. It’s been only two years since the Indian Supreme Court finally overturned its ban on homosexuality that had been imposed by the British when they ruled…
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SAFE/HAVEN: Gay Life in the 1950’s Cherry Grove
Since the 1940’s Cherry Grove, New York a small village on FIRE ISLAND has been a vacation paradise for the LGBTQ Community. The Cherry Grove Archives Collection a non-profit organisation was established to record the community’s history and is currently presenting an Exhibit SAFE/HAVEN; GAY LIFE IN THE 1950’s at Stonewall National Museum & Archives in Wilton Manors. Queerguru…
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Greed : a satirical comedy about a story that in reality is far from funny.
Michael Winterbottom’s latest movie is a fast-paced satirical comedy about a story that in reality is far from funny. It’s the very skimpily veiled story of notorious Brit billionaire businessman Sir Philip Green who the British Parliament named as ‘the unacceptable face of capitalism’. Green used nefarious means to buy Topshop and half a…
