This is Joan Collins : she bares all in this excellent new documentary
You don’t have to be British (or queer) to appreciate that 88-year-old actress Joan Collins really is a national treasure. Made a Dame by HM The Queen, she has always been the nearest thing that we Brits ever had to old-style Holywood Glamour. Her rollercoaster personal life took her through her marriages, and affairs … Continue reading
Three Months : a very entertaining queer rom/com that is also a next-generation AIDS drama
Three Months, writer/director Jared Frieder’s debut feature is a rather wonderful queer teen rom/com that includes an AIDS scenario that is both contemporary and positive and for once doesn’t end in death. It’s a finely nuanced tale that is both entertaining and informative that reminds us that the spread of HIV may have declined, … Continue reading
tick, tick…. Boom : Andrew Garfield sings his way to an Academy Award
Very occasionally a movie comes along that is actually better than its advance hype. tick tick Boom is definitely one of them. The directing debut of Lin-Manuel Miranda (Hamilton) from a script by Steven Levenson (Dear Evan Hansen), this biopic musical is a love letter to the late Jonathan Larson and Broadway itself. Larson … Continue reading
Tickled
David Farrier has made a successful career working as a reporter for a small TV Station in New Zealand looking at the weird and bizarre side of life. He thought he found a perfect subject for his program when he came across a website a couple of years ago from Jane O’Brien Media asking for men 18-24 … Continue reading
Time to rewatch “Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon”
After visiting the Royal Academy’s major new retrospective of Francis Bacon: Man and Beast you’ll probably want to rewatch John Mayburys 1998 movie on the troubled genius. Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon is a no-hold-barred fictionalized account of the artist and his very tempestuous relationships. Bacon first spotted … Continue reading