Sam Wanamaker’s 1969 thriller film The File of the Golden Goose stars Yul Brynner as a US Treasury spy chasing a ring of counterfeiters called the Golden Goose in Britain, aided and abetted by London […]
Ferzan Özpetek’s subtle, smouldering 2017 film Red Istanbul stars Halit Ergenç as a Turkish writer who relives his relationships with friends, family and past loves when he returns to Istanbul to help a famous director […]
Riccardo Scamarcio stars in Ferzan Özpetek’s 2010 Italian comedy film Loose Cannons [Mine Vaganti] as pasta magnate’s gay son Tommaso, who decides to return to come out to his narrow-minded family in Southern Italy. His […]
The well-heeled 1935 British romantic film Mimi is based on Henri Murger’s 1851 novel La Vie de Bohème, and stars Douglas Fairbanks Jr and Gertrude Lawrence. Director Paul L Stein’s 1935 British black and white […]
André Téchiné’s 2016 French romantic drama Being 17 is a complex, emotional and mature film, with the focus on two teenage boys (Kacey Mottet Klein, Corentin Fila) and their story, but Sandrine Kiberlain deservedly gets […]
Anne Fontaine’s 2017 French drama film Reinventing Marvin [Marvin ou la belle education] stars the then rising French star Finnegan Oldfield as Marvin, a gay actor in Paris struggling to write and perform a theatre […]
The serviceable and efficient 1958 British support crime thriller film The Bank Raiders focuses on Terry (Peter Reynolds), a petty criminal who signs up as getaway driver with a gang boss (Sydney Tafler)’s band of […]