drama
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Teenage Kicks
Don’t be fooled by the deceptive title of this movie which implies it is just another teenage romp, as Craig Boreham’s feature film debut, is one of the most powerful edgy LGBT dramas to come out of Australia for some years. It’s hard not to compare it with Ana Kokkinos’s 1998 award-winning break-out hit ‘Head…
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The Falls : Covenant of Grace
During the first two movies in this trilogy, writer/director Jon Garcia ensured that we really connected to the two young gay Mormon missionaries who were the protagonists, so that we became completely invested in the outcome of their on/off relationship. Now with Covenant of Grace, the third and last part of their story, we will…
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One Kiss
Clutching a newly won Italian Golden Globe comes an insightful teen drama that adroitly tackles a whole slew of issues such as homophobia, bullying and date-rape sex. Despite the serious nature of it’s subject matter, the movie opens on a very sunny note infusing such warmth and humor throughout that doesn’t prepare one at all…
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The Handmaiden
The celebrated South Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook manages to pack a lot of detail into the entire 2 1/2 hours of the erotic and exotic drama of his latest stunning epic The Handmaiden. Park has adapted Sarah Walter’s historical crime novel Fingersmith which was set in Victorian Britain, and transposed to Japanese occupied Korea…
