20th Century Flicks, Bristol

A New York love story that toes the line between narrative and doc with two actors reliving parts of their own experiences. So many gay films are too light for me. Too many films about broken souls finding each other are too heavy. I saw Cicada online through Outfest LA and found a weighty LGBT film that is also a wryly funny and engaging love story about trauma survivors. I don't want to give too much away, but both the main characters in this film have traumatic secrets and bucket loads of find out more...

CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA (2014)

Certification15 Our Rating

At the peak of her international career, Maria Enders is asked to perform in a revival of the play that made her famous twenty years ago. But back then she played the role of Sigrid, an alluring young girl who disarms and eventually drives her boss Helena to suicide. Now she is being asked to step into the other role, that of the older Helena. She departs with her assistant to rehearse in Sils Maria; a remote region of the Alps. A young Hollywood starlet with a penchant for scandal is to take find out more...

COMING OUT (1989)

Certification15 Our Rating

School teacher Philipp is gay, but unfortunately this is East Berlin before the fall of the wall and for the sake of an easy life he rejects his natural inclinations and moves in with a girlfriend. You are what you are however and soon Philipp has become infatuated again, only this time he has the courage of his convictions. Coming Out is a landmark in modern East German cinema, dealing as it does with homosexuality in an honest, positive and shamelessly erotic manner. find out more...

DEATH IN VENICE (1971)

Certification12 Our Rating

The beautiful Venice waterfront scenery and frustated emotions abound in this cinema classic from Thomas Mann's novel. Dirk Bogarde is an ageing gay man who fantasises whistfully about a young boy who is in the same hotel on the Lido. A revealing tale as much about old age grieving for lost youth as it is about obsession and homosexuality. find out more...

ENTOURAGE SEASON 3 DISC 4 (2007)

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13. Less Than 30; Vince goes to a basketball game and considers an offer to star in an adaptation of an Edith Wharton novel. Ari fights to get Vince back from Amanda, is 'Medellin,' still available? Turtle and Drama try to organise a birthday bash for Vince. The party is huge, Hollywood faces all over the place, and Ari is there; is 'Medellin,' still available? find out more...

FAR FROM HEAVEN (2002)

Certification12 Our Rating

A lovingly created homage to the melodramas of the 1950s sees Frank and Cathy Whitaker's picture perfect marriage masking a relationship based on lies. A blossoming friendship with the black gardener and a husband whose fallen in love with another man leave Cathy shunned by her friends and neighbours, her outwardly idylic world finally revealed for the sham that it is. Far from Heaven looks stunning, the recreation of the period nothing short of immaculate, but I have never been a fan of 1950s m find out more...

GOHATTO (1999)

Certification15 Our Rating

What action there is in this downplayed drama stems from the homoerotic tensions generated by the enrolment of a beautiful young samurai into the Shinsengumi Militia, a school famous for its strict discipline code, and the period setting of late 19th Century Japan is effectively used to evoke the extreme secrecy that any kind of institutional homosexuality was forced to exist in. The swordplay provides a welcome interval between the desperate (and often sad) sex scenes, showing the samurai tende find out more...

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GOSSIP GIRL SEASON ONE DISC 3 (2007)

Certification15 Our Rating

Episode 9, Blair Waldorf Must Pie!; Blair and Serena have a fight after Serena admits that she saw Blair with Chuck, Nate and his family share a strained Thanksgiving meal, Mr Archibald attempts suicide, the Van der Woodsons have a dinner with the Humphreys and Blair's bulimia returns. find out more...

I LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRIS (2009)

Certification15 Our Rating

Steven Russell appeared 'normal', a married man and father, a member of Geogia's finest and an organ player at the local church, but a traumatic car-crash radically altered his personality and out of the closet jumped both a flamboyant homosexual, openly throwing cash around, and a conman, whose fraud led him to both prison, from which he escaped 4 times, and total and utter love for a fellow inmate.
This is the Jim Carrey of old, a madcap comedian rather the more subtle actor of 'Eterna find out more...

LES CHANSONS D'AMOUR (2007)

Certification15 Our Rating

Ismael is the male at the centre of a m�nage-a-trois with his long-time girlfriend Julie and his work colleague Alice, but when you have more than you should the result is often dissatisfaction and it is only the full frontal assault of fate that brings the lives and destinies of all into sharp focus. "Les Chansons d'Amour" is a joyful homage to the French New Wave and Jacques Demy's classic "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg", a musical tale of love and longing. Full of knowing references and a cult h find out more...