Monsoon: going back home will not always work out as you plan
Queer Cambodian/Chinese filmmaker Hong Khaou’s sophomore movie that draws heavily from his own past unfolds at the slowest of paces in a very similar style as his debut film Lilting. This time the story is about a British/Vietnamese man going back to his birthplace for the first time since he was 6 years old … Continue reading
Morgan
Morgan is a twentysomething year old who used to be a good basketball player and a champion cyclist with a lot of things going for him before the accident. During a road race last year he gambled on a dangerous manoeuvre which left him paralysed from the waist down and now he simply spends all … Continue reading
Mosquita Y Mari
This is a cute latino coming-of-age story. Set in L.A.’s predominately immigrant Huntington Park area it tells of two Mexican teenage girls who become neighbors. One of them Yolanda, who’s nickname is Mosquita, is a ‘good’ girl who lives in a nice home with hard-working pushy parents who are proud of their daughter who gets … Continue reading
Music For Bleeding Hearts
For his sophomore feature film Brazilian writer turned director Rafael Gomes has adapted his own novel ‘Music To Cut the Wrists By’. Don’t be alarmed by the title as this engaging romantic comedy may have its melodrama, but his trio of lovelorn protagonists would still never resort to taking such action. We reviewed Gomez’s … Continue reading
My Big Gay Jewish Conversion
London based TV Producer/Presenter Simon Atkins seemed to have put the Catholicism of his childhood in Ireland on the back boiler when he met his boyfriend Matthew . Two years into their relationship Atkins starts to get more interested in Matthew’s Jewish faith, and although the two of them are not at a marrying … Continue reading