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Director Edward Dmytryk’s gripping and intelligent 1947 low-budget film noir crime thriller Crossfire is a flashback-told conscience-raiser about the hate murder of a Jewish man in a New York hotel. Apart from being a fine thriller, […]
Playwright/ screenwriter Julian Mitchell’s extremely fine, provocative, award-winning 1981 London West End theatre hit gay stage play Another Country happily is filmed retaining its exciting young stars Rupert Everett and Colin Firth from the London run. […]
Tony Richardson’s classic 1961 British realist drama film A Taste of Honey is a splendid memorial to both Dora Bryan and Murray Melvin. Co-writer/ director Tony Richardson’s classic 1961 British realist drama A Taste of Honey […]
Writer-director Don Roos’s funny, bitchy, and sometimes witty 1998 black comedy deliberately skates on thin ice, and then falls in unintentionally. After the death of her hated stepfather, a 16-year-old Louisiana supervixen called Dede Truitt […]
A in-jokey homage to classic Hollywood cinema, writer-directors Rick Castro and Bruce La Bruce’s 1995 gay movie Hustler White transposes the action of Sunset Boulevard from the silver screen’s old movie backlots to the business of […]
Encouragingly, Victim (1961) was popular, and made a profit. Better still, it was influential in changing attitudes and the laws in Britain regarding homosexuality. In 1961 closeted gay actor Dirk Bogarde took a huge risk […]
Ian McKellen and Lynn Redgrave finally both won Oscar nominations for their enjoyably extravagant turns in the crowd-pleasing 1998 behind-the-cameras movie Gods and Monsters. Brendan Fraser plays gardener Clayton Boone, a young ex-marine. After 30-odd […]