Is this film KING CHARLES III really the monarch’s future story, or purely the figment of Mike Bartlett’s imagination?
As the stories of King Charles III and his 2nd wife’s Coronation show no signs of abating we thought we’d share a fabulous one that is a figment of someone’s wild imagination (or is it?) A new film predicts the reign of King Charles will inspire a sex scandal, violent protests, and Princess … Continue reading
Italy, Love It Or Leave It
In 2009 I remembered being totally enamored with an irrepressible young Italian gay couple that documented the struggle of acceptance of gay rights in their Country and being totally horrified about the vitriol and power of the Far Right Political Parties that seem to make the American Evangelistic Conservatives seem like real sweethearts by comparison. … Continue reading
It’s All So Quiet
From the 2013 Berlin Film Festival comes this overwhelmingly sad tale of a closeted gay Dutch farmer whose intensely private and repressed life seems to be heading towards either the point of no-return or a major turning point. Helmer is 55 years old and when he is not attending to the few cattle and sheep … Continue reading
It’s Just In My Head
This new cute short film is the writing/directing debut of Romanian Marius Gabriel Stancu who’s daytime job is the Festival Manager of The Open Reel a major European distributor of LGBTQ films It’s a story that so many gay men can relate too personally, but in most cases it didn’t always end on such … Continue reading
It’s Only The End of The World
French-Canadian filmmaker Xavier Dolan’s latest impassioned cinematic outing, and his most mature to date, is a family drama that consists of a lot of very long wordy speeches, yet it is essential about what is not being said about the elephant in the room. 42-year-old Louis (Gaspard Ulliel) has come back to his family … Continue reading