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The Dinner
For his fourth time in the directors chair NY based Israeli filmmaker Oren Moverman has adapted Herman Koch’s best selling novel The Dinner. It’s the story of two couples who get together for dinner somewhat reluctantly at a rid exclusive restaurant, and as the evening unfolds their polite exteriors disappear and by the time the…
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Gold Medallist Chris Mears Dives In Naked
The British Olympic Gold Medalist diver Chris Mears had no problem shedding his clothes for a photo shoot for the last ever issue of UK Sport Magazine. When asked why he was doing it Mears, who is straight, joked that his reason for stripping off for a gay mag was simple: to take on team-mate…
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Bobbi Jo Hart talks about Rebels on Pointe with queerguru
Bobbi Jo Hart is the director of the new movie Rebels on Pointe which is the first documentary that has gone behind the scenes of the world-famous all-male (and all-gay) ballet company Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo. It’s a wonderful heartwarming tale of how this Company has not just survived for over 40 years…
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The Student
For his seventh feature film acclaimed Russian filmmaker Kirill Serebrennikov has adapted a stage play by the German writer Marius von Mayenburg that takes a hefty swipe at religious fanaticism with this tale of Veniamin (Pyotr Skvortsov) a rebellious newly-devout teenager who is literally determined to make life hell for everyone else who he thinks are sinners.…
