And so, like a wet goat, another year is born; an ideal opportunity to reflect on 2010 and make widescreen resolutions for 2011. You may already be wading through Top Tens up and down the cyberland, but here’s my own little twist ending to the cinematic story of 2010, namely a countdown of the scenes [...]
Entries Tagged as 'A Single Man'
Ten in 2010
January 6th, 2011 No Comments
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Film Review: Buried (2010)
September 29th, 2010 No Comments
One man, one coffin and 90 minutes’ oxygen, Rodrigo Cortés Buried is a deliciously claustrophobic one-hander for Ryan Reynolds. But can Cortés play by the rules?
Buried
Living In A Box by Mark Wilshin
CAUTION: Here be spoilers.
Sometimes the simplest ideas are the best. And there’s none simpler than Rodrigo Cortés’s underground thriller Buried, in which Ryan Reynolds is buried alive [...]
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Film Review: Contracorriente / Undertow (2009)
August 6th, 2010 3 Comments
With man-on-man love in a small Peruvian fishing village, Javier Fuentes-León’s Contracorriente has Latin American machismo swimming against a high tide.
Contracorriente
Breaking The Waves by Mark Wilshin
CAUTION: Here be spoilers.
Filmed in a small fishing port on the Cabo Blanco in northern Peru, Contracorriente could be anywhere. A small town of small minds, it could be Italy, Israel [...]
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Festival: London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival 2010
April 7th, 2010 No Comments
From forbidden love to lovesick confusion, London’s 24th Lesbian & Gay Film Festival explores the boundaries of love, sexuality and gender. It’s a fine bromance!
CAUTION: Here be spoilers.
Waving, Not Drowning by Mark Wilshin
With its fabulously glittery pink poster and rainbow’s ark of animals, London’s 24th Lesbian & Gay Film Festival is out and proud. And it’s nice for [...]
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Film Review: A Single Man (2009)
February 18th, 2010 No Comments
A Single Man
Colin Firth mesmerises as a grieving gay college professor, but can dressing Isherwood’s novel up in a sharp new suit say anything about 21st century queerdom?
The Unbearable Lightness of Loafers by Mark Wilshin
CAUTION: Here be spoilers.
Watching A Single Man just days after the suicide of gay fashion guru Alexander McQueen, Tom Ford’s debut [...]
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Film Review: Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011)
Film Review: Patience (After Sebald) (2012)
Film Review: The Nine Muses (2010)
Film Review: Shame (2011)
Eleven in 2011
Film Review: Mysteries Of Lisbon / Mistérios de Lisboa (2010)
Film Review: The Artist / L'Artiste (2011)
Film Review: Las Acacias (2011)
Film Review: We Have A Pope / Habemus Papam (2011)
Film Review: Take Shelter (2011)