Something Like Summer
Something like Summer the rather accomplished directing debut of David Berry from a script by Carlos Pedraza is full of surprises. What starts out as a sweet LGBT romantic coming-of-age musical actually ends up as melodrama, and a very definite tear-jerker too. In between it covers a lot of ground always trying (and succeeding most of the time) it … Continue reading
Something New
Charismatic out-gay actor Ben Baur who in 2015 made Out’s 100 List and is best known for his starring role in the rather raunchy LGBT web series Hunting Season, has written himself a plum part in Something New. This rather cute 15 minute short directed by T J Marchbank has Baur playing love sick Jonah … Continue reading
Sorry Angel
Following hot on the heels of BPM Beats Per Minute the powerful seminal French Aids movie that swept up every major César Award and at Cannes too last year, comes a new film from queer French auteur Christophe Honoré that tells a heartbreaking story from that same period. His movie is set in 1993 before the introduction … Continue reading
Sort Of : one of the funniest queer comedies on HBO Max
We’ve just come across this wee gem on HBO max that slipped by us when it was first released. It’s the gentle story of a gender-fluid Toronto millennial of Pakistani heritage in an eight-part Canadian comedy about identity. It was created by its star, Bilal Baig, and director Fab Filippo, this and all … Continue reading
Southern Pride : the struggle to organize Gay Pride in the Deep South
For his 5th documentary queer Canadian filmmaker Malcolm Ingram has returned to the American South where he shot his award-winning Small Town Gay Bar in 2006, Now he is back in two small towns in Mississippi on the Gulf Coast looking at the state of the LGBTQ community just after Trump’s election in 2016. We … Continue reading