Welcome to Chechnya : the story behind the purge to exterminate all LGBTQ people
The former Newsweek investigative journalist turned filmmaker David France’s third documentary is one of the most harrowing depictions of contemporary LGBTQ life that we will ever have to sit through. Fortunately France and his team are skilled enough to tell the stories with such heartfelt compassion that we don’t just feel like voyeurs but … Continue reading
Westerland
The setting for Tim Staffel’s adaption of his own novel is as bleak and desolate as the story itself. On the windswept icy mass of the island of Sylt off Germany’s most northernmost region, young Jesus is sitting alone on a bench in the middle on nowhere, with a plastic bag over his head. The … Continue reading
What Happens Next
Paul Greco is an uptight wealthy 50-year-old unmarried man who has just made a killing by selling off the Company he owned and ran and is now at a loose end as to what to do with all his free time. His hyper interfering sister gets him a dog to take for walks in the … Continue reading
What If I Am Gay? a look back to 1987
American TV Networks have always been notoriously puritanical and homophobic by nature. We remember the story of Red Hot + Bue the very first album Red Hot Benefit Series which sold over a million copies worldwide, raised nearly $1m for the activist group ACT UP, and was heralded as one of the first major AIDS benefits in … Continue reading
What We Have
Forty-something-year old Maurice has forsaken his hometown of Paris where he was successful actor and landed up in North Bay a remote small town in Northern Ontario where is regarded as something of an exotic enigma. His French accent wins him compliments but his insistence on still keeping to some of his big city habits … Continue reading