Tag: 2011
August
L.A. is having one its hottest summers ever when Troy lands back in town. He’s being living in Spain for the past four years but now he thinks he wants to find a job and a new apartment and move back home. It all depends on Jonathan his younger boyfriend who he dumped without warning…
(A) Sexual
I guess the byline of this movie could be ‘Everything You Need To Know About Not Having Sex’ ,but unlike Woody Allen’s movie that I paraphrased this from, this documentary is no laughing matter. It focuses on David Jay a very earnest handsome young man in his 20’s who after he ‘came out’ to his parents established a whole network…
Rent Boys
For well over the past four decades Berlin’s Zoo Railway Station has been the main stomping ground for the city’s rent boys. Using archive footage from 1965 this fascinating documentary from gay activist filmaker Rosa Van Praunheim paints the scene there as it has evolved until the present day. It is a desperately sad tale of…
Weekend
For the ‘NY Times’ to review a ‘gay’ movie is far too rare an occurrence but when A.O Scott, its senior Critic, goes one step further and gives one a rave review, then you know that that this is no ordinary film. This wee British movie that went on to be a multi-award winner was shot…
Gun Hill Road
Enrique returns home to the Bronx after a lengthy spell in Prison to discover that Angela his wife is distant to say the least, and his son Michael is now a transgender woman and known as Vanessa. None of this sits well with headstrong Enrique who views these changes as a personal threat to his…
