A Song For Your Mixtape

This is an extraordinarily beautiful and heart-wrenching short movie of the very tragic subject of gay teen suicide that is adapted from a story written by 20 year old actor Zach Kemper who also stars in it. It consists of a monologue that Kemper’s unnamed character pours out as he goes through the motions of going … Continue reading

A SORDID Celebration of LIVES : with our favorite memories and stories

  It has been almost 30 years since Del Shores write a wee stage play called Sordid Lives which not only won awards but was adapted into a movie in 2000.  It was the story of an (eccentric)  Texas family coming together in the aftermath of the matriarch’s death.  It received mixed reviews from the … Continue reading

A Suitable Boy

  Preferring not to read the original books that are adapted to into movies or TV shows we went into the BBC/Netflix treatment of Vikram Seth’s bestseller  A Suitable Boy totally cold.  We knew that the story, that award-winning Welsh writer Andrew Davies developed into a six part series ,was about an Indian mother trying … Continue reading

A Thing of Beauty Is a Joy for Ever

  A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing. East London photographer  Scallywag Fox’s stunning new black and white photo set of model Jack … Continue reading

A Time For Ilhan : Screening at Emerson College, Boston

  Boston: Bright Lights Film Series at Emerson College  are having a special screening of TIME FOR ILHAN ; Norah Shapiro’‘s excellent award winning documentary on the truly remarkable US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar This story of the Somali/American woman who single-handedly is changing the face of politics in Minnesota for good, is one of those … Continue reading

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