This week sees the online screening of Broken Heart Land a powerful documentary essentially about LGBTQ Rights but is also very much about a culture of prejudice, bigotry and sheer hatred that still prevails in so many parts of our country. It is a portrait of a town divided along the right/left fault-line that … Continue reading
One of the major surprises of the struggle for same-sex marriage in the US was that one of the reddest States of all got it on their Statute books a whole year before the Supreme Court made it legal throughout the entire country. Utah is still the one US state where not only Church … Continue reading
We are not certain of how much of Matt Fifer is in his debut feature film Cicada which he wrote, co-directed and starred in , but it has such a solid ring of authenticity that it must be based on his life story. Fifer plays twenty-something- year-old Ben who has just broken up with … Continue reading
British actor turned director Harry McQueen sophomore feature film SUPERNOVA has just had its World Premiere at the San Sebastian Film Festival this week. The movie has entered as it stars Academy Award winner Colin Firth and Academy Award nominee Stanley Tucci as a long time gay couple grappling with a dementia diagnosis … Continue reading
Brit queer filmmaker Simon Anderson’s short almost-romantic drama takes place in the idyllic English countryside at night after Sam’s brother’s wedding. The happy couple have gone to bed and as Sam (Matthew Tennyson) is in the garden a night cap , he starts up a conversation with Nick (Nigel Allen) one of his brother’s … Continue reading