drama
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Victim
This was the first serious approach to homosexuality the cinema had ever made. Made in Britain in 1961 where, as in the US, being gay was still a crime, the movie was actually banned from American theaters simply because it used the word ‘homosexual’. The story is of a handsome young man called ‘Boy’ Barrett who…
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RELEASE
From the team that bought us ‘Shank’ the first winner of the Roger Walker-Dack Award for Emerging Artists in Queer Cinema comes this gritty prison drama about Jack, a convicted Priest, who all the other inmates round on because they wrongly assume he’s a pedophile. Already deserted by the Church and now totally alone he has to…
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Japan Japan
Any movie that starts off with a large naked erect penis can’t be all that bad can it? The answer is Yes it can. I know. I’ve just watched it. This very sloppy visual mess is of an Israeli slacker that spends his entire day either looking out of the window, or at his own…
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20.13: Purgatory
Set in the 24 hours of Christmas Eve 1969 in a Portuguese Army Camp in a remote part of Mozambique where for some reason (that I sure I should remember from my history lessons) they are involved in a civil war. As night-time falls the ‘rebels’ attack the camp and as the soldiers lives are…
