Sundance
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Landline
This is a tale of a family that has secrets that it keeps from each other, until they get found out that is. It centers on two sisters : 20 something-year-old Dana (Jenny Slate) who is almost grown up, or so she thinks. She works as a copywriter at a trendy Manhattan magazine, and lives…
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The Last Word
Veteran Oscar-winner Shirley MacLaine is one of those rare breed of actors that we would happily wait in line just to hear her read the Telephone Directory out loud, in fact there are parts in this rather tepid contrived comedy that we wished she had being doing just that. It wasn’t the fact that this…
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Beach Rats : first peak at the steamy new LGBT movie
One of the most talked about and critically acclaimed LGBT films of the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, was BEACH RATS which is a gritty, dark and dreamy story about the sexual awakening of a Brooklyn teenager. It centers on Frankie (stunning Brit newcomer Harris Dickinson), an aimless youth on the outer edges of Brooklyn, struggling to escape his…
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Queer Movies at Sundance 2017 (and no sign of gay-for-pay James Franco in any of them)
It’s not that we have anything against Mr Franco but frankly some of his recent Sundance LGBT movies really stank. In 2015 his I Am Michael the story of Michael Glatze the ex gay activist who became an obnoxious born-again Christian, was so poor that it never saw the light of day after playing a…
