A film dominated by one performance, Forest Whitaker's turn as the infamous dictator Idi Amin. When young Scotsman Nicholas Garrigan becomes his personal physician few of us doubt that it will inevitably end in tears, but Amin, as is so often the way with monsters, has considerable charm to go with his paranoid genocidal tendencies and the naïve Garrigan is seduced. However Garrigan's role is ambiguous; is he just dumb or is he willingly looking the other way? The film also reverses the typical find out more...

It's 1973 and Tommy is out and proud when he meets his opposite, the closeted conservative Alan. However the passion burns strong in these two and an intense love affair blossoms, a relationship that must survive the turbulent political and social climate of gay politics during the 1970s and 80s. find out more...