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Each Man Kills the Thing He Loves

14 June 2016 London Barack Obama has called the Orlando shooting a “hate crime” against the LGBTQ community. For LGBTQ … More

homophobia, Orlando

It Is So Ordered

27 June 2015 Moncontour, Poitou-Charentes, France There aren’t many mornings where I wake up crying. This morning was one of them. On … More

Gay marriage, Supreme Court

A Not So Simple Man

8 November 2014 London The Imitation Game brings the life of gay mathematician Alan Turing to the big screen. Despite … More

Alan Turing, homophobia

Filmucopia Part IV: Old Love

17 October 2014 London My London Film Festival marathon closes with two very different New York-based love stories: the wonderful … More

Gay marriage, London Film Festival, Love Is Strange, The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby

Filmucopia Part II: Super Saturday

11 October 2014 London In Part Two of my London Film Festival marathon, I review Mike Leigh’s magnificent Mr Turner, the … More

Abel Ferrara, London Film Festival, Mike Leigh, Pasolini, The Turning, Tim Winton, Timothy Spall, Turner, Willem Dafoe

Swimming Against the Tide

31 August 2014 London Barracuda, Christos Tsiolkas’ fantastic new novel about the rise and fall of a young Greek-Australian swimmer, … More

Australia, Barracuda, Christos Tsiolkas, coming out, homophobia, The Slap

We Don’t Need Another Hero

15 July 2014 London Australian swimming star Ian Thorpe becomes the latest sports celebrity to admit he’s gay. But is this … More

Australia, coming out, homophobia, Ian Thorpe

Gay Pride and Gefiltefish

28 June 2014 London An unconventional Gay Pride weekend in London, involving fried fish balls in Hampstead. It’s Gay Pride … More

Gay Pride, Gefiltefish, London, Passover

Salò Revisited

9 April 2014 London Nearly forty years since its release, Pasolini’s film Salò, based on Sade’s novel The 120 Days of Sodom, … More

120 Days of Sodom, Censorship, Marquis de Sade, Pasolini, Sadism, Salo

O Blue Come Forth

8 April 2014 London Derek Jarman’s final film, the exquisite Blue, gets a glorious re-screening in London’s IMAX cinema.  I first … More

AIDS, Blue, Derek Jarman, homophobia, IMAX, Tilda Swinton

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