This was the first serious approach to homosexuality the cinema had ever made. Made in Britain in 1961 where, as in the US, being gay was still a crime, the movie was actually banned from American theaters simply because it used the word ‘homosexual’. The story is of a handsome young man called ‘Boy’ Barrett who … Continue reading
If you have been on one of the many daily Chicago River cruises that takes you through the heart of the city at any time during the past 14 years the chances are that you have seen Vincent P. Falk. From the start of summer season on Memorial Day until way into October he is … Continue reading
It seemed somewhat a remarkable co-incidence that I sat down to watch this movie the same night that Mickey Rooney’s death was announced. Mickey will always be ‘Andy Hardy’ to me : the irrepressible boy that thought he could solve all of life’s problems with jumping up and exclaiming ‘Let’s put on a Show’. And … Continue reading
Big butch Tony who’s obsessively homophobic takes umbrage when he is forced to work with Steve his Boss’s nephew who is obviously gay because he wears Prada shoes. (Don’t yell at me, I didn’t wrote this plot!) Tony makes no attempt to hide his repulsion and things almost comes to blows between the two men … Continue reading
From Eytan Fox the Director of ‘Yossi and Jaegar’ comes a story of a Mossad Agent who is ordered to track and down and kill one of the last remaining Nazi war criminals before he can die a natural death. To find his man, he is expected to act as a Tour Guide and befriend the … Continue reading