drama
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Port Authority : falling in love is not always what it seems
This intriguing debut feature from writer/director Danielle Lessovitz is a journey of discovery of a confused 20 year old youth who runs away from his troubled life in Pittsburgh to try his luck in NY. However when Paul (Fionn Whitehead) arrives at the Port Authority, half-sister Sara (Louisa Krause) who he had hoped to…
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Goodbye Seventies : the latest film from Todd Verow
There is an uneasy space in cinema where homages to bad 70s movies sit. The cliches of stilted dialogue, dodgy camera angles, arthouse pretentiousness and grainy visuals can hardly be celebrated without employing them. And doing so feels like double dipping back into a garbage can we were all glad to empty. Todd Verow…
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Forgotten Roads : a brilliant new queer Chilean drama
Despite all the problems in the world, 2020 has seen a remarkable crop of such excellent queer debut feature films from first time directors/writers. Forgotten Roads from Chilean filmmaker Nicol Ruiz Benavides is right up there amongst them. Kudos for both his script and his visual interpretation but especially for the sublimely nuanced performance…
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Rialto : an exploration of masculinity
Rialto, the sophomore feature film from Scottish filmmaker Philip Mackie Burns was written by queer Irish playwright Mark O’Halloran who adapted from his own award-winning stage play ‘Trade’. Incidentally O’Halloran also wrote the script of the stunning film Viva which in 2015 was Ireland’s Official Submission for Best Foreign Film at the Academy…
