2016
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Top 12 Picks @ MiFo LGBT Film Festival
We were going to list our Top Ten Picks at MiFo’s forthcoming Fort Lauderdale Festival, but the programmers have excelled themselves this time around and we cannot whittle it down to less than 12 ‘must see ‘ films. (And no, it doesn’t include James Franco’s latest gay role in King Cobra which had us yawning…
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Queer ’90’s : a Snapshot of the Watershed Decade
A new movie Art House is always a cause for a celebration, but when it opens with such lofty plans as The Metrograph, then it’s sort of like a wet-dream for real hardcore cinephiles. The two screen theater opened in March this year in Ludlow Street on New York’s Lower East Side and also encompasses a…
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Mrs Merton : a true British comic legend
Mrs Merton is a quintessential British TV legend. The creation of the brilliant comedienne/writer Caroline Ahearne, this ‘elderly’ agony aunt was the host of an BAFTA Award-winning mock TV chat show that ran for three years from 1995 on the BBC. Celebrities lined up to be her guest even though none of them were spared…
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The Crown set to be a Royal success for Netflix this Fall
Two-time Academy Award Nominee Peter Morgan continues his fixation with HM Queen Elizabeth with his latest creation that he has written and executive produced for Netflix. The Crown, which is set to be the company’s most expensive original drama series to date, chronicles the tumultuous early days of the young Queen’s realm, so don’t expect Dame…
