Don’t be fooled by the deceptive title of this movie which implies it is just another teenage romp, as Craig Boreham’s feature film debut, is one of the most powerful edgy LGBT dramas to come out of Australia for some years. It’s hard not to compare it with Ana Kokkinos’s 1998 award-winning break-out hit ‘Head … Continue reading
The Summer is over and before Fall can kick in three 20-something-year-old couples who are good friends leave the NY for a weekend break together in a borrowed house on a pretty island somewhere. As soon as they arrive and make claims to their bedrooms for their short vacation the kvetching starts. Rather than focus on … Continue reading
Every country in the world dealt with the AIDS epidemic in the 1980’s & 1990’s in different way, and the government in Cuba chose to round up patients and send them to a military facility turned into a sanitarium where they were very carefully ‘supervised’. If the patient conformed and behaved they were allowed out on … Continue reading
From Colombia, not a country that one usually associates with LGBT movies, comes this very touching melodrama about two women who are mourning the recent tragic death of the same man, and who surprise themselves with how things develop when they get together to share their loss. Andres (Manuel José Chávez) had been estranged from … Continue reading
As I was living in the UK in the 1990’s I had never heard of the case of Paul Broussard a 27 year old gay man in Houston Texas who was the fatal victim of a hate crime in the early hours of July 4th 1991, until I came across this excellent intriguing new documentary. … Continue reading