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Peter von Kant **** (2022, Denis Ménochet, Isabelle Adjani, Khalil Gharbia, Hanna Schygulla, Stéfan Crépon, Aminthe Audiard) – Movie Review

François Ozon’s 2022 film Peter von Kant freely adapts Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s play The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, turning the fashion designer Petra of the original into film director Peter. Actually, it is […]

Nov, 06

Rocketman **** (2019, Taron Egerton, Jamie Bell, Richard Madden, Bryce Dallas Howard, Steven Mackintosh, Gemma Jones, Stephen Graham) – Movie Review

Taron Egerton stars in Rocketman (2019) in a bravura performance as Reg Dwight, who nicks his new first name from his band mate Elton Dean and supposedly his new surname from John Lennon, though apparently […]

May, 25

Benjamin *** (2018, Colin Morgan, Phénix Brossard, Anna Chancellor, Joel Fry, Jack Rowan) – Movie Review

Colin Morgan stars as the dazed and confused gay film-maker Benjamin in writer-director Simon Amstell’s amusing and appealing, bittersweet romantic comedy called Benjamin oddly enough. Colin Morgan, last seen in Rupert Everett’s The Happy Prince (2018) as […]

Oct, 19

Papi Chulo ***½ (2018, Matt Bomer, Alejandro Patiño, Elena Campbell-Martinez) – Movie Review

Matt Bomer stars in Papi Chulo (2018) as a popular and successful but lonely gay Los Angeles TV weatherman called Sean, who has a tearful breakdown on live TV and is given gardening leave to […]

Oct, 02

Casting *** (2017, Andreas Lust, Judith Engel, Tim Kalkhof) – Movie Review

Co-writer/ director Nicolas Wackerbarth’s German film has wicked fun at the expense of actors and creatives in this witty, funny and clever comedy drama about the casting sessions for a remake of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Seventies […]

Oct, 04

Torch Song Trilogy **** (1988, Anne Bancroft, Matthew Broderick, Harvey Fierstein, Brian Kerwin, Karen Young) – Classic Movie Review 3377

‘It takes a lot of guts and a helluva sense of humour to live life in Arnold’s shoes.’ Tony Award-winning actor and playwright Harvey Fierstein adapts his own smash hit Broadway and London West End […]

Feb, 18

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