2012
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How To Survive A Plague : the seminal AIDS movie
David France’s meticulously detailed account is how an angry and fiercely committed group of selfless people refused to lie down and play dead and by taking on both the pharmaceutical industry and Government institutions, they made a real difference and saved countless live. This is of course the story of the AIDS epidemic which…
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Let My People Go
Exactly who the people that need to be freed in this mildly amusing comic farce is never really made clear. Could it be Jews, or the Homosexuals, or the French or even the Finnish? There are a multitude of stereotypes in this rather convoluted comedy written by Christophe Honore who I am now beginning to realize is a…
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Yossi
Ten years on and Eyton Fox’s brilliant ‘Yossi & Jaeger’ about two Israeli soldiers who fall in love is fondly regarded as a ‘classic gay movie’, and now he follows it with this rather wonderful sequel. Yossi is still mourning the loss of his lover Jagger who died in his arms at the Front and he is…
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The Men Next Door
This is the latest movie from writer/director/producer Rob Williams who is a leading exponent of a genre that I call ‘Boy-Lit’. Light bubbly stories where boy meets boy, boy loses boy, then boy meets (another?) boy again, and lives happily ever after. Nothing heavy to test the brain, or challenge any assumption that love always wins in the end,…
