Although it’s over 30 years since the AIDS pandemic decimated the queer community it’s still a very raw memory for so many of us. In the new millennium, we were inundated with fictional movies on the subject, and the majority of them were appalling. Sensationalized, morbid, alarmist, and even excuses to promote rampant homophobia. … Continue reading
We were immediately intrigued by the title of this movie as it is something we reviewers try to avoid completely. Then after reading how out-gay actor 4 time Emmy Award winner Jim Parsons had personally optioned the rights to this memoir by his friend the entertainment journalist (and TVLine co-founder) Michael Ausiello, we had … Continue reading
There is a tinge of sadness to watching The Duke when you realize that it became the swan song of British film and theater director Roger Michell who recently died aged 65… Michell’s work included a number of critically acclaimed productions at the National Theatre. His filmography included The Buddha of Suburbia , Hudson in … Continue reading
The Courier takes us back to the time last century when a successful British Businessman was recruited by the MI6 the UK’s Spy Service to spy on Russia . Those were the (good) old days when we still had the old-fashioned cloak and dagger real-life spies and Russia was the ONLY country that was … Continue reading
The horrifying real-life story of the mass-murderer Olga Hepnarova, who was the last woman to be hung in Czechoslovakia in 1975 aged 22 after she deliberately drove a truck through a line of people waiting at a bus-stop, makes for very bleak viewing. Shot in black and white in the bleak depressed town where this … Continue reading
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