The Importance of Being Earnest

5 March 2014 London My latest post for the Huffington Post – a meditation on the significance of coming out, … More

Falling Down the Canyon

12 February 2014 Invercargill Paul Schrader’s attempt at a directorial comeback – the low-budget erotic thriller The Canyons, starring Lindsay … More

4 November 2013 London Two plays on the London stage – Joanna Murray-Smith’s Scenes From A Marriage and Alexi Kaye-Campbell’s The Pride – put … More

20 August 2012 London Is something rotten in the state of Britain? In this cultural round-up, I review the National Theatre’s … More

1 August 2012 London My tribute to the giant of American letters, stately homo and provocateur Gore Vidal, who died this week. … More

24 July 2012 London My review of the finale of Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy – a film so unrelentingly fascist … More

26 June 2012 London My review of the Menier Chocolate Factory’s revival of Harvey Fierstein’s modern gay classic, Torch Song … More

13 May 2012 London For Mother’s Day, I re-read Angelica Garnett’s hatchet job on her mother Vanessa Bell, in her … More

23 October 2011 London Rugby, the game that personifies New Zealand’s macho homophobic culture, is now a thing of homoerotic fantasy – … More

16 October 2011 London One day, two great London Film Festival films: Steve McQueen’s brilliant, punishing Shame, and Andrew Haigh’s … More