After the commercial success of LOVE SIMON in 2018 ( it grossed $66 million worldwide) Disney’s ears pricked up thinking that the world was ready for their take on a gay teen romance /drama. This feel-good crowd-pleaser of a movie was directed by (openly gay) GREG BERLANTI (BROKEN HEARTS CLUB) from a script based on … Continue reading
The prolific French/Canadian Xavier Dolan is unquestionably one of the ten best queer filmmakers today. And he’ll be at the top of of the list too. In 2009 at the tender age of 20 his debut film I Killed My Mother, which he wrote, directed, produced and starred in, won him three prestigious awards … Continue reading
Greg Cope White is adapting his memoir The Pink Marine was first published in 2016. after he had spent six years as a US Marine, before embarking on a career as a television and film writer This 10-part TV series which has gone into production for Netflix will follow, Cameron Pope (played by our … Continue reading
Bram is in his 20’s and a good-looking Belgian/Turkish gay man who is rather smitten with blond, blue-eyed Kevin who works with his mother at their wee Cafe in Antwerp. Unusually for self-confident Bram who subsides his Waiter’s job by some small time drug dealing on the side, he is however unsure of either Kevin’s … Continue reading
At one point in this movie the lead character, Nicholas Van der Swar (Kai Luke Brummer) is warned “Try to stay invisible” but there is nowhere to hide as director Oliver Hermanus slowly and powerfully strips individuality and intimacy away from him. Conscripted at sixteen into the white supremacist army defending the apartheid of … Continue reading