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Drown
Len Smithy is the arrogant captain of the team of young sturdy lifeguards on the same stretch of Australian beach where his father had been before him, and his father before that. He’s won the Team’s annual challenge race five times now and is used to being the undisputed king of this patch of sand…
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His Wedding Dress
This debut feature from newbie Cuban filmmaker Marilyn Solaya is a grim tale about a transsexual’s relationship with a naive straight man back in the country’s dark days of 1994 before the President’s daughter Mariela Castro started to champion equal rights and tolerance for the LGBT community. This particular story is based on a real life one…
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You’re Killing Me
Joe is a serial killer. He started with murdering small animals but now that he has been released from the Mental Institution he was ‘confined too’ he has progressed to adults. Mostly gay ones, particularly annoying ones, and they are several of them in this new slasher/romantic comedy about a group of self-absorbed gay men…
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Tig
It’s not unusual for comedians to use their stand up routines as a substitute for a session with their therapists as they use their audience to unburden all their woes too. Tig Notaro however went much further than most when she went on stage to do her usual act one night in the Largo Club…
