Like Foam aka Como la espuma
It’s Milo’s (Carlo D’Ursi) birthday and so Gus (Nacho San José) his best friend and carer is determined that he will do his best to break his ‘dry spell’ and get him laid. The wealthy and handsome Milo has been moping around his enormous mansion alone feeling sorry for himself because he is confined to … Continue reading
Like You Mean It
Thirty-something-year-old gay couple Mark and Jonah’s relationship is already looking shaky when they go out with their best friends to celebrate Mark’s latest birthday. The evening doesn’t quite turn as planned when the friends announce that for the next three months leading up to their wedding they are allowing each other licence to have final flings. The … Continue reading
Lilting
Junn is a rather disgruntled 60-something year old Chinese woman who has been co-oreced against her will into moving into a care facility for Seniors by Kai her son. The opening scenes of this wee British drama see the unhappy mother berating her only child for her present predicament which is exasperated by the fact … Continue reading
Limited Partnership
As the dust settles down on the historic decision of SCOTUS to pave the way for same-sex marriage to be legalised for all Americans in every State some commentators still consider we achieved so much in a short time. That is probably because what is in their mind as the starting point was when the … Continue reading
Lingua Franca : the tale of an undocumented Filipino trans caregiver
NY based Filipino trans filmmaker Isobel Sandoval’s heart-wrenching third feature film is sadly one of those tales of the moment that seem like they can never end well. Its the story of Olivia (played by Sandoval) who is an undocumented Filipino caregiver who looks after Olga an elderly Russian Jewish women (Lynn Cohen) in … Continue reading
