2015
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Chemsex
Chemsex is an unidentifiable issue to most people but after watching this excellent but scarily sobering new documentary from filmmakers Max Gogarty and William Fairman of VICE you will see how this fast-growing phenomenon is deeply affecting a certain part of the urban gay community. It’s about gay men ‘slamming’, which is evidently the more…
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Meet The Patels
Finding the love of your life in today’s culture isn’t easy, particularly with its dependency on social media. In fact it can really be quite complicated as Ravi Patel found out especially when he wanted to bring his parent’s happiness into the equation too. Ravi, a rather charismatic Indian/American actor living in L.A. has just split…
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45 Years
For his third feature film British writer/director Andrew Haigh has made yet another intimate drama, but unlike the previously two this time his subjects are neither young or gay. His story here centers on a retired middle-class couple leading a rather slow-paced idyllic life on the Norfolk Broads in England. Kate Mercer (Charlotte Rampling) and…
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Eddie Peake and his Naked Art
British artist Eddie Peake who currently has a solo exhibition of work called ‘The Forever Loop’ which is on view at The Curve, Barbican Centre, London, has just presented a “reimagining of sorts” of one of his performance pieces from his days studying at the Royal Academy. Whilst a post-graduate student Peake staged a naked five-a-side football…
