Tag: coming of age
Pulse
This debut feature film from Daniel Monks and Stevie Cruz Martin is one of the most provocative stories that tackles gender identity and presents its own very different sci-fi take on this issue that is both innovative and intriguing. Disabled teenager Olly (Monks)is getting increasingly unhappy that whilst his schoolmates are all enjoying dating and the…
Novitiate
When Nora (Julianne Nicholson) out of the blue took her 8 year daughter Cathleen to church one Sunday, she told the inquiring Catholic Priest, it was simply because she wanted Cathleen to be able to make her up mind up on religion when she was old enough. However when the shy studious girl turns…
Everyone will Love Simon
20th Century Fox have just released the first teaser trailer of what could be one of the cutest coming-our stories of 2018. Love, Simon is an American comedy-drama directed by Greg Berlanti (Dawson’s Creek) and based on the novel Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli. The film stars Nick Robinson, (Jurassic World) as Simon, a 17-year-old closeted gay high school student forced…
Hidden Kisses
16 year old Nathan (Bérenger Anceaux) is the new boy at school, and unbeknownst to him his arrival stirs up some very definite feelings in his classmate Louis (Jules Houplain). When the two of them are at party at the weekend Louis makes his move and kisses Nathan in a deserted spot in the…
Call Me By Your Name
Luca Guadagnino’s latest, and best movie has been the subject of a stealth marketing campaign which revealed little of substance about the movie but somehow hyped expectations to a dizzy height. Thankfully for once they proved extremely accurate as this near-faultless film about an intergenerational summer love affair is a sublimely perfect coming-of-age story that is…
