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SUMMERLAND : a British lesbian period drama

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  Summerland is the debut feature film from Olivier award winning playwright, screenwriter and director Jessica Swale.  She is reunited with actresses Gemma Arterton and  Gugu Mbatha-Raw who  both starred in her stage play Nell Gwynn, for this , another quintessential English drama with a real twist. Arterton and Mbatha-Raw play University Students  in the … Continue reading



Carol

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For his 6th feature film  queer filmmaker Todd Haynes returns to the 1950’s and re-visits the theme of repressed sexuality that he captured so brilliantly in his Oscar-nominated “Far From Heaven” in 2002.  Last time he worked from his own script, but this time around British/American playwright Phyllis Nagy has adapted Patricia Highsmith’s controversial novel … Continue reading



Downton Abbey : the best feel-good movie of the year (so far)

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  Watching the glorious movie version of Downton Abbey on the big screen is just like being welcomed back home to old (rather grand) friends who we have missed .  Of course we are not the visitors that Lord and Lady Grantham (Hugh Bonneville & Elizabeth McGovern) are expecting as they have just received a … Continue reading



‘Golden Youth’ (‘Une jeunesse doree’)

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  Golden Youth takes us back to the late 1970’s when Americans were desperately squeezing into Studio 54, and we Europeans were flocking to the more accessible but equally debauched Le Palace night club in Paris.  It was home to extravagant theme parties and performances, that literally threw together rich and poor, gay and straight, … Continue reading



Netflix’s period crime drama BODIES stars Kyle Stoller as the most handsome (closeted) detective

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  Bodies is a new Brit TV series about four detectives in four different time periods of London who find themselves investigating the same murder.  In it, Kyle Soller plays Detective Inspector Hillinghead who is seen in the aftermath of discovering the body in 1890. As he questions a photographer, Henry Ashe (George Parker), who … Continue reading



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