And... we kick off this new section to mydy by revisiting some old favourites and lazily copying and pasting bits of old reviews 1. Nicholas Winding Refn’s Bronson The colourful and surreal portrait of notoriously violent British prisoner Charles Bronson. Lest we forget, Bronson the film features one of the best “macabre party scene”, which involves half a dozen patients gyrating to It’s (…) Continue Reading »

It’s impossible not to fall in love with a film which includes the line ‘but heteroman, your arguments fall light as leaves cause your g spot is in your ass’. This mix of queer criticism and autumnal imagery is actually a line from a song, delivered in melodic unison by four queer superheroes in a ramshackle community centre which reminded me of the set of a Swedish Byker Grove. There’s a lot (…) Continue Reading »

Orbit Ever After est un court métrage incontournable cette année. Sélectionné par les plus grands festivals, en Angleterre et en Europe, il a remporté entre autres le Brief Grand Prix au festival Encounters 2013 ( le plus grand festival de courts métrage anglais qui se tient à Bristol en octobre) et nominé aux BAFTA 2014. Interview avec son réalisateur Jamie Stone. Perdue dans l’espace, (…) Lire la suite »

Orbit Ever After London is one of this year’s unmissable shorts. It was selected at major festivals in UK and in Europe, and won among other things the Brief Grand Prix at Encounters 2013 (UK’s leading competitive short film festival in Bristol), and nominated at the BAFTA 2014 in the British Short Film category. Q and A with it’s director Jamie Stone. A stranded spaceship is the unlikely (…) Continue Reading »

Pay it No Mind is a loving documentary tribute to the late queer rights activist and ‘saint’ Marsha P. Johnson, built around archive footage of a 1992 interview with the legend herself. ‘Pay it No Mind’ is what Marsha P. Johnson would answer whenever asked what the ‘P.’ stood for. It is no coincidence that the songs of Antony and the Johnsons are used on the soundtrack of this soulful (…) Continue Reading »

’American Idol’ owes me, big time. Whilst they didn’t clip my wings during an audition by highlighting my average singing talent, their on-screen auditions showcasing amazing, (allegedly) undiscovered vocal talent has served to divert my attention from the lives of amazing, discovered vocal talent that still has not ’made it’. ’20 Feet from Stardom’ is a documentary profiling background (…) Continue Reading »

Robin French writes for theatre and television. He wrote the script for the short film Crocodile, directed by Gaelle Denis, that was screened at La Semaine de la Critique in Cannes and subsequently won the Short Film Prize. French’s first play, Bear Hug won the Royal Court Theatre Young Writers Programme. His play The Red Helicopter was performed at the Almeida theatre in 2010. He also (…) Continue Reading »

Hong Khaou’s study of love and loss opens with shots of 1950s patterned wallpaper and lilting background music, before panning to a vase of freshly cut hydrangea – their blue friendliness blackened by shadow. In this ‘old people’s home’, Junn, the Cambodian – Chinese mother of the tale, has been ‘imprisoned’ by her loving son Kai– “Why did you put me here?” she asks when he visits. Yet (…) Continue Reading »

Now here is a Canada that we don’t see on postcards. Or in scenes of ‘How I Met Your Mother’ when Robin visits Canada for the weekend. On the Red Crow Indian Reservation in 1969 teenage Aila and her uncle, Burner, run a quaint weed dealing business to supplement the family’s income, which also allows Aila to save to leave the Res. But living isn’t easy, primarily because rogue Indian agent (…) Continue Reading »

La Distancia is fantastically serene, profoundly tactile and deeply pleasurable to both eye and ear. A garden of eerie, earthly delights. Sergio Caballero’s post-industrial Siberia is a land haunted by radiation and inhabited by foxes, rabbits (…) Continue Reading »