2013

  • Leather

    Leather

    Director Patrick McGuinn’s new movie has the most misleading title for a gay drama as the ‘leather’ referred to is not some raunchy bar lifestyle as one might expect but it’s about a backwoodsman who actually crafts handmade sensible sandals as a living.     Birch is a hunky hairy man who’s been sharing a…

  • Undressing Israel : Gay Men In The Promised Land

    Undressing Israel : Gay Men In The Promised Land

    Gay porn mogul Michael Lucas and his co-director Yariv Moser start their documentary in dismissing some of the widely held misconceptions that people around the world have about Israel.  That everyone rides around on camels, and secondly that the country is always at war. But in the next 45 minutes they quickly replace them with…

  • THE PATIENCE STONE

    In a decrepit bomb-damaged house in a  war-torn country ….probably Afghanistan ……an unnamed young woman in her mid thirties is struggling to take care of her two young children and also her much older husband who was seriously wounded in a battle. A bullet in his neck has reduced him to a comatose state, and…

  • THE GREAT BEAUTY aka LA GRANDE BELLAZZA

    There is not just only one person who could make claim to being ‘the great beauty’ in Paolo Sorrentino’s stunning new masterpiece that focuses on Rome’s fast set as everybody is completely obsessed with being desired and admired by all. Well, by everyone in their clique at least. At the epicentre of all this frantic…