Netflix’s period crime drama BODIES stars Kyle Stoller as the most handsome (closeted) detective
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
Never Again is Now : how the rise in antisemitism is a threat to all Jewish lives
Evelyn Marcus a Dutch Jew starts her documentary acknowledging about her extremely good fortune that both her parents, and their families, were Holocaust survivors. Growing up in a Amsterdam suburb as a comfortable middle class family in the post WW2 Years, the emphasis of the Marcus family was celebrating life to the fullest. This … Continue reading
Nevrland : a post-gay coming of age story
17 year old Jakob (Simon Frühwirth ) has just graduated high school and as it is the summer break his single-parent rather subdued father fixes him up with a temporary job at the abattoir he word at in town. The pair of them live in a isolated house in the country with Jacob’s elderly … Continue reading
New French Shorts 2020 : with flashes of honesty, humour and a little horniness
A marvelously robust and compelling group of French shorts. They are all satisfyingly different filled with flashes of honesty, humour and a little horniness AHMED’S SONG (Le chant d’Ahmed) Director: Foued Mansour The low key charm is real as young Mike, a chancer … Continue reading
New PBS Doc ‘THE WAR ON DISCO’ investigates the late 1970s when angry homophobes and racists tried to stop the music….
For most of us (of a certain age) our passion for everything disco peaked in 1977 with John Travolta’s swagger in the opening scenes of Saturday Night Fever. The film resulted in the Best Actor Oscar Nomination for Travolta but for the rest of the world, it shepherded in a whole new movement … Continue reading