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Queerguru’s Andrew Hebden reviews PREDRINKS/AFTERPARTY a high octane and fizzy romp at Drayton Arms Theater
PREDRINKS/AFTERPARTY ☆☆☆☆ Drayton Arms Theatre On another night of Brexit mayhem in party politics it was a relief to have a night of chaos that kept its destructive tendencies on stage. PREDRINKS/AFTERPARTY is a high octane and fizzy romp that is aptly described, as one of the characters says of themselves, as “a food…
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The Invisibles : the story of Jews who hid from the Nazis in Berlin in WW2
The Invisibles is an intriguing hybrid docudrama that bears witness to the number of German Jews who chose to go into hiding rather than being captured by the Nazis in WW2. In 1943 Goebbels the Reich Minister of Propaganda of Germany declared that after all the purges there were no Jews left in Berlin. …
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Birds of the Borderlands : Jordan Bryon’s look at gender and sexual identity in the Middle East
When the camera starts rolling on Birds of the Borderlands it is initially hard to work out if Australian genderqueer filmmaker /activist Jordan Bryon is foolhardy or brave or equally part of both. Bryon who prefers to use they, them, their pronouns on a whim took it upon themself to up and move to…
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Papi Chulo :Matt Bomer stars in John Butler’s latest LGBT drama
The openly gay Irish writer/director John Butler follows his charming award-winning coming out tale Handsome Devil with an intriguing movie set in Los Angeles. It’s the story of a good-looking local TV weatherman Sean (Matt Bomer) who we first meet when he is having an on screen meltdown on live TV. His very understanding…
