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Queer Matter : News, Reviews And Interviews
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Coffee Date
Divorced computer programmer Todd got more than he bargained with when he allowed his slacker brother to set him up on a Blind Date. The ‘Kelly’ he had been chatting to online shared his passion for art-house movies and they had already established a bond even before they met. Turned out that his brother had…
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MENTAL
There is an hilariously funny opening sequence when the camera swoops down from the nearby mountains to spot Shirley, a suburban housewife on the verge of a breakdown, hanging out her washing in her garden whilst she recreates the beginning of ‘The Sound of Music’ that she is totally obsessed with. Her five daughters however…
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In Celebration
This is a filmed adaptation of celebrated British playwright David Storey’s stage play that opened in London Royal Court Theatre in 1969. Storey was a leading exponent of ‘kitchen sink drama’ which in the late 1960’s atypically was a style of social realism which often depicted the domestic situations of working-class Britons living in terraced…
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The Stranger In Us
A brief encounter in a gay bar in Virginia one night results in small-town boy Anthony packing up and traveling to the West Coast where his one night stand has returned home too. Stephen is older and reasonably wealthier and offers his new boyfriend everything …. but it comes at a steep price. When Stephen’s…
