romance

  • SIberia and Him : a love affair doomed from the start

    SIberia and Him : a love affair doomed from the start

      There cannot possibly be a more desolate place to live on Earth than in the vast plains of Siberia where the sparsely populated people miserably eake out a living and simply pray that there is no return  to war.  When Sasha’s grandmother fails to answer her phone for days the family send him off…

  • Fin de Sigle/End of the Century  :  Poem, painting or dream? 

    Fin de Sigle/End of the Century  : Poem, painting or dream? 

      For anyone who has traveled alone the first 12 wordless minutes of Fin de Sigle are so recognizably real that you don’t realize you are being set up for a love story that is not quite a poem, a painting or a dream. Gustavo, or Ocho (Juan Barberini) as he is known by his childhood…

  • A Luv Tale : about 4 queer women in Harlem

    A Luv Tale : about 4 queer women in Harlem

      It’s been 20 years since director’ Sidra Smith’s debut film A Luv Tale played the Film Festival  circuit and picked up a couple of Audience Awards.  Now she is back with a 6 part web series of the same name that picks up where she left off with  the story of the lives of…

  • Everything Is Free (although you often end up paying anyway)

    Everything Is Free (although you often end up paying anyway)

      After Brian Jordan Alvarez made his delightful web series The Gay and Wondrous Life of Caleb Gallo,  and before he hit the mainstream playing  Jack’s new husband Estefan Gloria in Will and Grace he created this rather compelling love story in 2017.  Alvarez wrote, directed, edited, starred in and even wrote the some of…