For Shirin, a twenty-something-year-old angst ridden fashionable Brooklynite, life is mess. We don’t need to feel sorry for her, as she does that so well herself. She is reluctantly breaking up with Maxine her girlfriend and leaving the home they shared with little more than a strapon dildo. She is moving into a shabby squalid … Continue reading
The opening scene of the movie reveals a very reluctant Marta cleaning a luxury apartment aided and abetted by Junior her 9 year old son who she has dragged along as she cannot afford a babysitter. She’s annoyed as she feels that this work is beneath her but has to do it anyway as she … Continue reading
The German/Canadian documentarian Thomas Wallner’s record of the closing night of the ‘Gardenia’ the famous Belgian Cabaret that had been touring Europe for the past years pries far too closely for comfort into the melancholy filled lives of the performers. They are a group of elderly, mainly overweight, transsexuals and gay men who are drag … Continue reading
Anna and Marina are an Italian lesbian couple who have been together for 10 years and are at the point in their relationship where they want to add an extra dimension into it by having a baby. Both women have avoided bringing up the conversation before as they were unsure of how the other would … Continue reading
Ringo Le’s comic drama admirably tackles the concept that even in our physique obsessed culture, gay men who are socially inept and more than pleasantly plump can still get their chance at a big romance. The lonely soul in this instance is Bob, who is a chubby successful party caterer in L.A. who has made … Continue reading