2020
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Rebecca: Did they really have to burn down Manderley for this?
The award-winning British writer/director Ben Wheatley responsible for some excellent edgy films such as Sightseers and Kill List seemed an odd choice to helm Netflix’s Rebecca. He is valiantly trying to get the message through that his is not an adaption of Hitchcock’s 1940 original that won two Academy Awards including best Picture, It…
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New Queer Music for Fall : Love Harder, Justin Bieber, Anabel Englund and Faultlines.
The song “Yeehaw” from Love Harder featuring Willie Jones & Rynn begins with a whole lot of country flare, guitar riffs, and twang but by the time you get to the chorus you are immediately transformed to a contagious dance beat and heavy bass that makes you want to hit the dancefloor. Such a…
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Outfest Now : a new mission-driven queer streaming platform
Are you ready for yet another movie streaming platform? Before you say no (!) check this new one out. Its from OUTFEST, LA’s Queer Film Festival (founded back in 1980!) who claim it will be the first mission-driven LBGTQIA+ platform with films, series, live-streamed-events creator conversations and more We must admit they do have…
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Naz & Matt Foundation and the fight against religious homophobia
Unassuming Matt Mahmood-Ogston is an unlikely LGBTQ hero, and even though he may deny it, he is exactly that. He turned the tragic death of his long-time fiance Dr Naz Mahmood into creating the Naz-Matt Foundation to stop religious homophobe. Three days after 34 year old Naz had told his Muslim parents he was…
