Check out all of the posts tagged with "coming out".
A Bolivian father seeks out and confronts his late son’s ex-boyfriend. Rodrigo Bellott’s 2019 Bolivian drama film Tu me manques [I Miss You] is especially thought-provoking and moving. A Bolivian father seeks out and confronts […]
The haunting 2018 French gay-themed movie I Am Jonas takes the risky bold step of switching continuously between present and past, and succeeds perfectly, becoming as exciting as any first-rate thriller. Writer/ director Christophe Charrier’s […]
Writer/ director Diemo Kemmesies’s German gay drama film Silent Youth is an edgy spin on the classic coming out story, all about what will be hard to remember later, or what you may prefer to forget, […]
Writer/ director Jonah Markowitz’s super-nice, tremendously optimistic 2007 feel-good romantic drama gay movie Shelter is persuasively done, with a winning performance by Trevor Wright as Zach, a slightly lost aspiring young artist living in San Pedro, […]
Writer-director Joel Edgerton’s biographical drama Boy Erased is based on a memoir by Garrard Conley about the conversion therapy of an American gay teenager. It is a very good, very compelling film, all too real film, […]
‘Dear Moviegoers, Please form a line at concessions. It doesn’t have to be straight. Love, Simon.’ Here’s to you, Mr Robinson. Can a whole movie hang on its hero’s smile and charm? Yes, apparently it can. Nick […]
Writer-director Eliza Hittman’s provocative coming-of-age/ coming-out drama is intelligent, thoughtful, exciting, intensely gripping, involving and sexy. Movies are all in the detail, and this is superbly detailed and nuanced. Harris Dickinson is outstanding as a […]