melodrama
Walking With Shadows: plodding shadows stay flat
Walking with Shadows has all the emotional set pieces that are expected from a film about a gay man who ends up married to appease the religious expectations of his family. With little to offer in the way of surprises the story plods towards a predictable destination whilst managing to under deliver against the…
Trade : a melodrama about accepting your real identity
The sophomore film from writer/director/producer Trae Briers is a story about how a casual meeting between two very different men turned into a melodrama that not one of them could have predicted. Michael (Austin Miller) is a highly successful corporate lawyer who lives in a luxurious villa on the beach in Malibu with Ashley (Tiffany…
Rainbow’s Sunset : a Filipino gay melodrama that is way too preachy
If you ever wondered what a gay Filipino Lifetime Made For TV Movie would look like, then Rainbow’s Sunset would be it. Maybe something got lost in translation, or it is to do with cultural differences, but this tale of these 80+ year old gay men finally moving in with each other when one…
From The Land of The Moon
It’s unusual to see the Oscar winning actress Marion Cotillard in anything as syrupy as From The Land of The Moon which in the old days would be simply dismissed as a ‘women’s picture’. Her presence and that of co-star Louis Garrel does at least raise the bar somewhat in what is otherwise a…
