WISHFUL DRINKING

This is Carrie Fisher’s take on own her life to date: highly edited and mined deeply to extort as many laughs as she can from  stories that must have seemed anything but funny when it actually happened.  The daughter of movie star  Debbie Reynolds and hit crooner Eddie Fisher whose traumatic marriage, divorce and re-marriages … Continue reading

With Love: a new Latinx/queer holiday rom-com from Amazon Prime

  The Holiday Season is the time when too many TV Networks want to get us all feeling romantic.  We have nothing against that …… in principle …… but the films/series they make do tend to opt for sentimentality over substance.   It’s really hit and miss whether you end up giving up or throwing up, … Continue reading

Wojnarowicz: an excellent new doc. on one of NY’s greatest queer artists/activists

The exceptionally talented queer artist David Wojanarowicz’s name may not easily trip off one’s tongue but at least now thanks to Chris McKim’s incisive documentary his place in the echelons of queer culture will finally be totally undisputed. Wojanarowicz died of AIDS in  1992 just 37 years old, but this new film makes us all … Continue reading

Woke : how a closeted French Muslim”s coming out changed everyone”s lives

  Sullivan Le Postec created the  award-winning series, Woke for Studio 4, the French public broadcaster’s web fiction platform in 2017.  Now available globally, it is the story of the melodramatic comings and goings of an LGBTQ Drop In Center in Lyons, which is suddenly turned upside down with the arrival of Hitcham (Mehdi Meskar) … Continue reading

Woman In Gold

Maria Altmann has been living in California since she and her late husband managed to flee from Austria when World War 2 started. Now that her sister has just died Maria has uncovered several documents concerning all the art and other valuables that the Nazis had looted from their family home. One of them was … Continue reading

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