drama
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Outings
This new Brit LGBT edgy TV series that went straight to DVD that tackles the life of group of friends in the northern UK town of Manchester is worlds away from HBO’s LGBT series Loving set in San Francisco featuring a group of rather sophisticated urbanites. Outings bills itself as a cross between as Queer as…
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Rara
When Chilean lawyer Paula (Mariana Loyola) divorces her husband Victor (Daniel Munoz), her new partner Lia (Agustina Muñoz) moves in to share her home in this small conservative town. One day Paula is summed for a meeting with the school Principal after her 8 year old daughter Catalina (Emilia Ossandon) had made a drawing of…
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Nocturnal Animals
Ex fashion guru Tom Ford may start his new movie in the vacuous and pretentious wealthy L.A. art world where everyone is obsessed with appearances, but the other two strands of this multi-layered story take them, and us way out of our comfort zone. After her latest rather outrageous Opening featuring obese naked middle-aged female…
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20th Century Women
Writer/director Mike Mills is revisiting his own family history again as the source for his latest movie. It served him well last time when in ‘Beginners’ he told the story of his father who came out as gay when he was 75 years old, garnering an Oscar for Christopher Plummer. This time around Mills’s focus…
