comedy. drama
Queerguru’s Ris Fatah stirs up happy memories of the 1970’s Mods music scene reviewing The Pebble And The Boy
The four-year period from 1978 to 1982 was probably the most fertile period in British music history. A complete soundclash of music genres peaked and ruled the airwaves, including punk, new wave, disco, Two-Tone, new romantic, heavy metal, and of course the late 70’s Mod revival. A bleak UK political and economic landscape plus…
Ladies In Black : putting color into Sydney in the 1950’s
Veteran Australian filmmaker Bruce Beresford (Driving Miss Daisy) has evidently taken some 25 years to adapt the the bestselling novel by Madeleine St John to the screen. The result is a decidedly old-fashioned comedy drama that highlights the gentle world of Sydney in 1959 with just a hint of a message about the settlement…
MAY IN THE SUMMER
New Yorker best-selling author May is flying back to Jordan her home country accompanied by her two sisters Yasmine and Delia to plan her upcoming wedding. Her fiance remained behind and plans to arrive just before the ceremony in three weeks time. Her Jordanian mother, long divorced from her American Diplomat father has found God…
GIMME THE LOOT
Sofia and Malcolm are a couple of teenage graffiti artists (taggers) from the Bronx who set their hearts on the twenty year somewhat impossible challenge to ‘bomb the apple’ i.e. spray paint the NY Met’s notorious giant apple that is shown every time they hit a home run. This sweet naive pair believe that when…
