Goodbye Seventies : the latest film from Todd Verow
There is an uneasy space in cinema where homages to bad 70s movies sit. The cliches of stilted dialogue, dodgy camera angles, arthouse pretentiousness and grainy visuals can hardly be celebrated without employing them. And doing so feels like double dipping back into a garbage can we were all glad to empty. Todd Verow … Continue reading
Gossamer Folds : the tale of an unlikely friendship
Queer filmmaker Lisa Donato who is known for her short films got her first feature film directing job from actress Yeardley Smith. Smith who was both producing and starring in Gossamer Fold, has a reputation as a good ally of the LGBTQ community. She chose well as Donato’s debut turned to be one of … Continue reading
Great Expectations ………for Great Expectations
Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens the greatest author of the Victorian era. This is his penultimate completed novel and it depicts the education of an orphan nicknamed Pip. It.s a coming-of-age story with themes of wealth and poverty, love and rejection, and the eventual triumph of good over evil, and was an enormous … Continue reading
Great Freedom : one man’s story about being imprisoned in Germany for decades for being gay
Germany’s pernicious Paragraph 1675, was part of the German Criminal Code from 15 May 1871 to 10 March 1994. It made homosexual acts between males a crime, and in early revisions, the provision also criminalized bestiality as well as forms of prostitution and underage sexual abuse. All in all, around 140,000 men were convicted under the … Continue reading
Green Book : the best man on man love story of the awards season
Odd couples are seeds for great stories. If you squint a little to see it The Green Book is more than a mismatched road trip pairing of black and white, gay and straight, talent and ignorance. It is the best man on man love story of the awards season Frank “Tony Lip” Vallelonga (Viggo … Continue reading
