Headlining the London Film Festival’s Debate strand is Gavin Hood’s Official Secrets, the true life tale of a British whistleblower who tried to stop the Iraq war, and one horrendous use of spell check. The collection of British acting talent here is an impressive and interesting mix. Keira Knightley stars as Katharine Gun, a translator... Continue Reading →
A number of great short films were screened at the London Film Festival this year, covering a whole range of topics. Here were some of the queer shorts (and a few more I just enjoyed). Dawn of a New Gay by Rosie Gaunt-Mathieson Jack Rooke walks us through his first sexual experience as an 18... Continue Reading →
Hot take: Decidedly mediocre yet technologically impressive. Ang Lee’s Gemini Man may be notable for its tour de force innovative visual special effects, but sadly by every other measure it’s a thoroughly pedestrian action film. With a paint by numbers plot, the surprises are nowhere to be found, resulting in a movie that’s lifeless and... Continue Reading →
Walking With Shadows covers some familiar territory, but spins it out with a fresh take thanks to its setting and culture. Irish writer/director Aoife O’Kelly takes on Jude Dibia’s book about a Nigerian man maliciously outed to his family and friends and gives it a pensive, cinematic treatment. The initial outing happens quickly, a terse... Continue Reading →
Warning: contains potential spoilers. Jeremy O. Harris’s searingly uncompromising, disarmingly funny and often suitably uncomfortable Slave Play was a recipient of multiple awards as part of New York Theatre Workshop’s 2018/19 season and the Broadway transfer officially opened on Sunday 6th October at New York’s Golden Theatre, running until 19th January 2020. As the audience... Continue Reading →
Jayro Bustamante's Tremors (Temblores) tells the story of handsome, successful, wealthy Pablo (Juan Pablo Olyslager), who falls in love with Francisco (Mauricio Armas Zebadúa), and the terrible repercussions that this wreaks. Pablo, a member of a religious and socially conservative family of European heritage in Guatemala, is married to Isa, with whom he has two... Continue Reading →
Jonathan Larson’s Tick, Tick, Boom has always been the perfect show for fringe theatre, and this new production by London’s Bridge House Theatre stands tall in the small space. Originally written as a one man show, later expanded to three characters, Tick, Tick, Boom charts the pre-mid-life-crisis of Jon (a struggling musical theatre composer) in... Continue Reading →
Five complete strangers sit down for a meal in an apartment in Paris. Each start the evening in a different emotional space; one is physically sick, others withdrawn, others conversational. Over the course of the evening they talk about love, life, sexual fantasies and discover the ways in which they are the same and the... Continue Reading →
A B-movie science-thriller made with art-house movie aestetics, Little Joe is a weird beast of a film. Emily Beecham stars as Alice, a geneticist working on a designer flower that has the ability to use scent to elevate moods. Alice has a ruthless streak, sabotaging other researcher’s plants to service her own, racing to be... Continue Reading →
