Director Norman René’s heart-rending 1990 drama is a trailblazer as the first mainstream feature to tell the story of how the AIDS epidemic affected America’s gay community in the 80s. It centres on a small circle […]
Writer-director Todd Haynes’s smart and highly intriguing 1995 drama stars Julianne Moore, who gives a superb portrayal of a woman in ultimate peril as an allergy victim to the everyday pollution in her own surroundings. […]
Rhys-Meyers and Ewan McGregor strut their flamboyant stuff in writer-director Todd Haynes’s gay-friendly, Citizen Kane-style exposé of 1970s glam rock. In truth, the immensely ambitious 1998 drama Velvet Goldmine is a part failure, but it […]
Writer-director Todd Haynes’s remarkable 1991 movie is one of the three cornerstones of the early 90s aggressive New Queer Cinema movement, along with Tom Kalin’s Swoon (1992) and Gregg Araki’s The Living End (1992). Previously […]
Writer-director Gregg Araki’s 1992 drama takes its stance by describing itself as ‘an irresponsible film’. The Living End is a visually startling, highly emotionally charged micro-budget ($22,000) look at the desperate lives of an HIV-positive young […]
Writer/ director Tom Kalin revisits the scene of the crime in the Richard Loeb-Nathan Leopold Jr ‘murder-for-kicks’ case in 1924 Chicago for his 1992 real-life crime thriller film Swoon. For his 1992 real-life crime thriller […]
John Waters edges towards the mainstream but has no intention of going respectable, in the hilarious 1981 satirical black comedy film Polyester. Divine gives a brilliant masterclass in outrageous overacting as Baltimore housewife Francine Fishpaw. […]
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