romance

  • Show Me What You Got : an enchanting ménage à trois

    Show Me What You Got : an enchanting ménage à trois

      For her sophomore feature film American writer/director Svetlana Cvetko has created an enchanting ménage à trois romance that makes for compelling viewing.  Shot in black and white, it is all  very reminiscent of a French New Wave flick, except this is very much a Californian/Italian affair. The three protagonists drift together in L.A. which…

  • Dashing in December : a queer Christmas Cowboy story

    Dashing in December : a queer Christmas Cowboy story

      The LGBTQ community’s fascination with gay cowboys long predates Brokeback Mountain the 2005 Oscar Winning movie that made us all fall in love with Heath Ledger.  Yet some 15 years later  there is still such a shortage of them on the big and small screen so that we got positively excited just about the…

  • Funny Boy : a tender queer love story set in a time of war

    Funny Boy : a tender queer love story set in a time of war

      Having just reviewed Jon Garcia’s excellent drama about a relationship set and filmed in the COVID Lockdown, we are beginning to realize his title Love In Dangerous Times could have also be used by a whole multitude of other movies.  Especially ones with an LGBTQ story lIne. For example Funny Boy is a coming-of-age…

  • Love in Dangerous Times : a pandemic romance

    Love in Dangerous Times : a pandemic romance

    The Covid 19 pandemic that has put all our lives on hold, or simply twisted them almost out of recognition , will finish one day .  The only thing certain is when the world is a safer place, the movie industry is bound to rush to make so many films about the Lockdown that we…