drama
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Moffie : Soldier stripped bare
At one point in this movie the lead character, Nicholas Van der Swar (Kai Luke Brummer) is warned “Try to stay invisible” but there is nowhere to hide as director Oliver Hermanus slowly and powerfully strips individuality and intimacy away from him. Conscripted at sixteen into the white supremacist army defending the apartheid of…
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Hope Gap : when his parents marriage ends Jaime is expected to fix things
Hope Gap is based on the real story of the childhood of writer/director William Nicholson . He had first written it in the form of a play The Retreat from Moscow which went on to win 3 Tony Award Nominations on Broadway. The latter seems very surprising watching the movie adaptation which is now…
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Stranger Hearts: a trio of unhappy souls
KEVIN JAMES THORNTON has followed up his disappointing debut feature “How To Get From Here To There‘ a low budget queer sci-fi movie with this new web series for Dekkoo. Stranger Hearts follows three gay men from wildly different backgrounds whose lives would somehow one day overlap. Billy (musician Matt Moran) has all the…
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Lingua Franca : the tale of an undocumented Filipino trans caregiver
NY based Filipino trans filmmaker Isobel Sandoval’s heart-wrenching third feature film is sadly one of those tales of the moment that seem like they can never end well. Its the story of Olivia (played by Sandoval) who is an undocumented Filipino caregiver who looks after Olga an elderly Russian Jewish women (Lynn Cohen) in…
