2020
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Dashing in December : a queer Christmas Cowboy story
The LGBTQ community’s fascination with gay cowboys long predates Brokeback Mountain the 2005 Oscar Winning movie that made us all fall in love with Heath Ledger. Yet some 15 years later there is still such a shortage of them on the big and small screen so that we got positively excited just about the…
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FROSTBITE- Who Pinched My Muff
Frostbite – Who Pinched My Muff? ☆☆☆ Garden Theatre, London When choosing which pantomime ** to go and see, some are chosen because you like who is appearing in them, or maybe you saw a good one at the same venue last year. There are some pantos, however, which are chosen purely on…
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The Donut King
The totally surprising and extraordinary roller coast life of Ted Ngoy is the stuff of a good movie drama ….. except that this is a documentary of his almost unbelievable real life. A word of warning here, before you start to stream Alice Gu‘s wee film, go grab yourself a box of donuts, as…
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The Father : with an award-winning performance from Anthony Hopkins
It seems that Europeans have the edge when it comes to telling such elegant tales on the sensitive subject of dementia. Hard to forget the image of Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva as the devoted elderly couple in Micheal Hanke’s Amour in 2012. They stole all our hearts and won every award imaginable in…
