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Rainbow’s Sunset : a Filipino gay melodrama that is way too preachy
If you ever wondered what a gay Filipino Lifetime Made For TV Movie would look like, then Rainbow’s Sunset would be it. Maybe something got lost in translation, or it is to do with cultural differences, but this tale of these 80+ year old gay men finally moving in with each other when one…
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Stephen Coy reviews Michael Carroll’s ‘Stella Maris & Other Key West Stories’ : a thoroughly enjoyable, layered assemblage of stories
Little Reef, Michael Carroll’s previous collection was a thoroughly enjoyable, layered assemblage of stories set in Florida and populated with gay men. His new collection follows a similar path but presents work that is more challenging, yet just as good. The inner voices of the characters may sometime seem scattered or hard to follow, especially…
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Queer filmmaker Nick Borenstein’s double take at Tribeca
NY queer filmmaker Nick Borenstein got the ultimate seal of approval recently by actually having two short films accepted into the Tribeca Film Festival. No mean feat as this leading Festival is always heavily subscribed with thousands of submissions from the best of contemporary filmmakers. Judging by his two very cute and funny films,…
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The White Crow ; the story of the original Bad Boy of Ballet
For his third time behind the camera the two time Academy Award nominated actor Ralph Fiennes has tackled the story of the defection to the West of Rudolph Nureyev the Russian who was one of the greatest dancers of all time. With a script by two time Academy Award nominated writer David Hare, this…
