Single Street : where having a baby trumps falling in love
The new Dutch film Single Street (aka Singel 39) which is the movie debut of TV director Frank Krom is labelled a rom-com but is technically not one in the traditional sense. When girl meets boy she is immediately put into the friend zone which is where she stays for the whole length of … Continue reading
Sister Aimee : The Disappearance of the US’s most famous religious charlatan.
Sister Aimee is a bonky film about an even bonkier character Aimee Semple McPherson whose story is too ridiculous to be real. In fact filmmakers Samantha Buck and Marie Schlingmann make a point of telling us that only 5.5% of their film is true and the rest is pure (and slightly warped) imagination. They focus … Continue reading
Something Must Break
Androgynous punk Sebastian works stacking paint cans in a warehouse by day and at night lives in a cramped messy apartment with his lesbian friend Lea. He is intensely broody and unhappy with practically everything in his life especially his gender, and spends his time in a haze of drugs, drink and hanging out in gay bars … Continue reading
Staccato : a 19th Century tale of Upstairs/Downstairs gay love
Set in the 1800’s this short film is an Upstairs/Downstairs tale where the aristocratic young master of the House Thomas Croydon (Craig Granger) falls for Sean (Kevin O’Malley) one of his hunky gardeners. In a story that is equally passionate and histrionic, it shows a side of life we will never see in Downton Abbey Directed … Continue reading
Stonewall
When out-gay German film director Roland Emmerich bombed The White House in ‘Independence Day’ everyone cheered (it became the first movie to take over $100 million at the Box Office in a week). However the moment he announced that his latest movie would be revisiting the Stonewall Riots that had marked the start of the gay liberation … Continue reading