2016
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Scrum
Scrum traces the success of the Sidney Convicts Rugby Team as they participate in the Bingham Cup Tournament in 2014 is probably one of the most uplifting LGBT documentaries for a very long time . It’s very essence is embedded in a story of hope, and how something so intrinsically wonderful came out of tragedy…
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Un-Royal Variety Show
There is a very quaint British theatrical tradition that was started in 1912 for King George V to help raise funds for Variety Artistes’ Benevolent Fund and is still going strong today. Originally called The Royal Command Show implying that all the Acts had been asked to perform by the King himself, it later morphed into…
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Doing Elliot
Every time the Spanish filmmaker Noel Alejandro releases another of his very explicit short movies, we re-visit the whole dilemma of whether this is art or pornography. His sixth movie ‘Doing Elliot’ is a cinematic depiction of an unexpected sexual encounter between two long friends. When Thomas first spots Elliot in his local park, he…
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The Handmaiden
The celebrated South Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook manages to pack a lot of detail into the entire 2 1/2 hours of the erotic and exotic drama of his latest stunning epic The Handmaiden. Park has adapted Sarah Walter’s historical crime novel Fingersmith which was set in Victorian Britain, and transposed to Japanese occupied Korea…
