Wish We Were There : Complete PEDRO ALMODOVAR RESPECTIVE goes Down Under
Every queer movie fan should be heading direct to Ritz Cinema in Sydney Australia for the biggest cinematic treat of 2022. They are mounting PEDRO ALMODÓVAR: A COMPLETE RETROSPECTIVE of the entire catalog of the work of one of the world’s greatest queer auteurs. It will feature 22 films from the two-time Academy Award … Continue reading
With Love: a new Latinx/queer holiday rom-com from Amazon Prime
The Holiday Season is the time when too many TV Networks want to get us all feeling romantic. We have nothing against that …… in principle …… but the films/series they make do tend to opt for sentimentality over substance. It’s really hit and miss whether you end up giving up or throwing up, … Continue reading
Wojnarowicz: an excellent new doc. on one of NY’s greatest queer artists/activists
The exceptionally talented queer artist David Wojanarowicz’s name may not easily trip off one’s tongue but at least now thanks to Chris McKim’s incisive documentary his place in the echelons of queer culture will finally be totally undisputed. Wojanarowicz died of AIDS in 1992 just 37 years old, but this new film makes us all … Continue reading
Woke : how a closeted French Muslim”s coming out changed everyone”s lives
Sullivan Le Postec created the award-winning series, Woke for Studio 4, the French public broadcaster’s web fiction platform in 2017. Now available globally, it is the story of the melodramatic comings and goings of an LGBTQ Drop In Center in Lyons, which is suddenly turned upside down with the arrival of Hitcham (Mehdi Meskar) … Continue reading
Woman On Fire
Brooke Guinan’s second-generation New York City firefighter father is a hero. He was one of the first responders who worked tirelessly at the site of the World Trade Center for weeks after 9/11. Brooke, a firefighter too, is also very much a heroine for a very different reason. She is the only openly-trans member of … Continue reading