REVIEW: Cowboys (BFI Flare 2021)
When it comes to trans visibility, mainstream entertainment narratives have a tendency to lean towards showcasing adults’ stories. This then leaves a gaping hole when it comes to stories of young people navigating their gender identity, unfortunately unconsciously feeding into this belief that children are…
REVIEW: Language Lessons (SXSW 2021)
For most of 2020, filmmakers have been bashing their heads against a wall trying to figure out how to make a movie in the midst of a global pandemic. Traditional sets require safety measures that are cost prohibitive for many independent film productions, so the…
REVIEW: Fugitive Dreams (MANIFF 2021)
It’s hard to accurately summarise Jason Neulander’s Fugitive Dreams. On the one hand, watching the film is like being thrown into a surreal, Kaufman-esque, tripped out, biblical fever dream. On the other hand, (as its synopsis states) it’s a road trip through rural Americana, with…
REVIEW: Boy Meets Boy (BFI Flare 2021)
For his feature film debut, Boy Meets Boy, writer and director Daniel Sánchez López transports audiences to the streets of Berlin for a whirlwind holiday romance. After Harry (Matthew James Morrison) a doctor from Nottingham, comes to the end of a two day bender during…
REVIEW: My First Summer (BFI Flare 2021)
A hidden house in the woods, sparkly bracelets and coffee with marshmallows – what more could you ask for from a delicate coming-of-age story? My First Summer takes you to rural Australia merely days after tragedy has struck in a local stream, and follows the…
REVIEW: Trouble Will Find Us (MANIFF 2021)
Films about romantic relationships can be challenging to get right. There are several factors for this – dialogue and the emotional stakes, for example, leaps to the forefront. But the obvious one comes down to believability. Characters have to feel authentic and genuine. And no…
REVIEW: Rebel Dykes (BFI Flare 2021)
We weren’t Lesbians, we were Dykes! At the intersection of punk and feminism, we meet the “Rebel Dykes”, a group of women who recount their riotous stories of their lives in London in the 1980s, in this eye-opening and anarchic documentary feature. The idea…
REVIEW: The Catch (MANIFF 2021)
“You can’t keep running away” – and yet that is the central theme that sums up Beth McManus (Katia Winter). We’re cryptically introduced to Beth – in a dazed and panic frenzy, she packs her things and travels back home to her estranged family in…
REVIEW: Cured (BFI Flare 2021)
Whilst today the LGBTQ+ community and its allies are still fighting for a range of rights and freedoms, one that is receiving particular attention at this present moment is the campaign for a ban on conversion therapy. Similarly, during the 60s and 70s, there was…
REVIEW: Potato Dreams of America (SXSW 2021)
Potato Dreams of America is less a narrative film than it is an exploration of memory. It’s the quasi-autobiographical story of the life of writer/director Wes Hurley, from his childhood in the former Soviet Union, to his young adulthood as a gay immigrant in the…
REVIEW: Jump, Darling (BFI Flare 2021)
The now iconic gay phrase “The time has come for you to lip sync for your life!” was made popular by reality TV competition RuPaul’s Drag Race. Host RuPaul says this phrase before the two bottom queens of the week have to lip sync in…
SXSW INTERVIEW: ‘Executive Order’ Director Lázaro Ramos
Lázaro Ramos is a Brazilian actor, presenter, producer, director and author who, over the last 20 years, has received more than 70 awards, played almost one hundred characters in cinema, theatre and television, and has published five books. He has been a UNICEF ambassador since…
REVIEW: Executive Order (SXSW 2021)
Executive Order opens with a card stating that the story takes place “somewhere in the future,” allocating the viewer in an undetermined space that equally dialogues with present and future while simultaneously pulling from the past. Some of the best products of recent Brazilian cinema…
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