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22 November 2012Film Preview: Laurence Anyways 1 You may or may not have already heard about the third feature from Quebec's rising director Xavier Dolan about the effect of being trans on a heterosexual relationship. -
31 March 2012Preview: Sundance London + This month marks the inaugural edition of a British offshoot of one of the world's best film festivals. -
31 March 2012Preview: Titanic 3D 2 The freezing waters of the Atlantic filled with desperate people. -
4 March 2011Lion King animator says only a matter of time before ‘gay families’ appear in Disney films 12 Andreas Deja, a veteran animator for Disney, has suggested the company would be open to featuring both openly gay character and gay families in future projects. -
4 March 2011National Portrait Gallery talk to celebrate lesbians and gay men in British cinema 7 The National Portrait Gallery in London is to host a talk highlighting key lesbian and gay figures in British cinema. -
24 January 2010Film Review: Brothers 4 Brokeback Mountain star Jake Gyllenhaal appears in Brothers, the latest in a line of recent war movies that attempt to look into the psyche of soldiers as well as the effect that their absence, experiences and changed personas have on their families. -
24 January 2010Film Review: All About Steve + This loopy comedy caper about a nerdy crossword creator with a penchant for red cowboy boots will divide the audience firmly in two: you're either going to love it or hate it. -
24 January 2010Film Review: The Road + This month heralds the much-anticipated release of The Road. -
23 January 2010Film Review: It’s Complicated + It sure is complicated. -
1 July 2009Film Review: Bruno 4 Camp fashion reporter, Brüno, Sacha Baron Cohen's alter ego, is much like his previous role as Borat, dealing with similar topics and in analogous style to his Kazakhstani counterpart. -
1 July 2009Film Review: Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince 7 It's been almost eight years since the first of the Harry Potter tales was consigned to celluloid. -
1 July 2009Film Review: The Proposal + Sandra Bullock almost seems too sweet to play the hard-nosed Editor-in-chief, Margaret Tate, but The Proposal is clearly a movie made for the meaner side of her personality. -
1 July 2009Film Review: The Private Lives of Pippa Lee + Coming from something of a smothered childhood, the fifty-year-old Pippa Lee finds herself in an idyllic position in life, albeit on a merely superfluous level. -
21 April 2009Film review: State of Play + From the director, Kevin Macdonald, State of Play features the rise and fall of American congressman Stephen Collins (Ben Affleck) – who is handsome, unflappable, and ascending the ladder of power with unprecedented speed. -
21 April 2009Film review: Star Trek 1 JJ Abrams' new Star Trek is driven forwards by a time travel loop – allowing destiny to be altered and a new edge to the original continuity. -
5 April 2009Film Review: Not Easily Broken 1 Dave Johnson (Morris Chestnut) has always dreamed of becoming Major League Baseball player, but, after getting injured, he settles for being a little league baseball coach. -
5 April 2009Film Review: I Love You Man + Many films have relied on the relationship between a couple of male friends and their various farting and vomiting jokes – and this one isn't that different. -
5 April 2009Film Review: The boat that rocked + Richard Curtis, by his own admission, has carved out his career by making modern classic love films. -
24 January 2009Film Review: Che Part Two + In the second of a two part drama about the revolutionary life and times of Ernesto ''Che'' Guevara, viewers are taken to Bolivia for an on-the-ground document of guerrilla warfare. -
29 December 2008Film Review: Frost Nixon + Back in 1977, British satirist turned talk show host David Frost managed to secure unprecedented access to former American president Richard Nixon, still a global pariah and national disgrace following his 1974 fall from office after the notorious Watergate scandal.
