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‘It reflects the ignorance of a less tolerant era and the lingering emotional damage this continues to inflict’Peter TatchellIf you are looking for a sweet, affirmative, feelgood gay movie, All of Us Strangers is probably not for you. It’s a dark, gut-wrenching love story, with a plotline that blurs reality and fantasy.Adam is an isolated, emotionally damaged gay man. He’s struggling to come to terms with the death of his parents when he was 12, and to overcome the sense of outsider otherness he feels on account of his…

I’ve lived all my life in the north of England; in Barnsley for 18 years, then Lancaster, then Barnsley briefly again, then Liverpool for a while before settling in Manchester. In my poetry, particularly my debut, physical, and now in a novel, Pity, I’ve always been interested in what role writing can play in celebrating and rethinking place; how it might illuminate silences, or cut through the radio static of assumptions. It’s an interest that was, perhaps, inevitable having a poet for a father, who always encouraged all…

By Jocelyn Noveck | Associated Press “It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature,” went a famous ’70s commercial catchphrase. But we learn in “The Flash” — the much awaited, long gestated new DC Studios offering — that it’s Father Time one musn’t cross. Because trying to change the past can really mess you up when you get back to the future and realize you’ve inadvertently changed that, too. But of course, we already knew that. We learned it from Marty McFly, immortalized by Eric Stoltz in “Back to the Future.” Relax! Of course…

via Eon Productions There are many factors that conspired to ensure Pierce Brosnan’s debut as James Bond in GoldenEye as one of the best action blockbusters of the 1990s; a list of accolades that ranges from the stunning set pieces to its roguish charm, via some scenery-chewing villainy and a twinkle in the eye of everyone involved on either side of the camera having so much damned fun. One element that definitely can’t be overlooked under any circumstances, though, is Famke Janssen’s ludicrous femme fatale…

Surveying the sea of people at his first arena show, Yungblud considers what he’s lost. Pushing sweat-soaked hair from his face, the 25-year-old singer – real name Dominic Harrison – laments being further from his fans than he’s ever been. “I am Yungblud, you are Yungblud,” he says, jumping down to the outstretched arms at the barrier.His sorrow rings true – as the head of a self-styled band of outcasts called the Black Hearts Club, he has attempted to build a fan community based on respect and acceptance. But it could…

Presley Ann / Getty Images for SeeHer With millions of MCU fans, it’s more than just kid’s entertainment as adults of all ages collect comic books, action figures, models, video games, clothes, and movies just to scratch the surface. When Seth Rogen stepped up to defend the Marvel Comics Universe in the ongoing debate about whether it’s merely audiovisual entertainment or if it’s actual cinema, MCU stans are clapping back hard because of what he actually said in a recent interview with Variety. “As someone who…

Hell hath no fury like streaming services pumping out new originals before the festive season, with Netflix’s latest Christmas caper gunning straight for the charts on debut. Churned out like butter in the summer months is Christmas with You, the streaming giant’s latest seasonal film. In its first week, it has seen an eye-watering near 18 million hours viewed as it looks to cement itself as a go-to 2022 holiday season film. With none other than Freddie Prinze Jr. and Dexter star Aimee Garcia, the film has clearly used…

Capturing the self-destructive spiral of fictional musicians on film is difficult without running into cliché. And yet, Taurus manages to pull this it without missing a beat.   Featuring Colson Baker, aka Machine Gun Kelly, as up-and-coming rock star rapper Cole, Taurus is a full-frontal assault from the opening frame. As well as being an executive producer on the project alongside writer and director Tim Sutton, Kelly also contributed a vast majority of the music – a fact which not only adds an additional layer of…

By Jake Coyle | Associated Press I have mostly frowny faces for “Smile,” a bluntly unsettling and blandly grim new horror flick that wrings as much mileage as it can out of a twisted grin. Parker Finn’s directorial debut, which opens in theaters Friday, adapts his own 11-minute short into a jump scare-rich thriller about a hospital emergency ward therapist, Dr. Rose Cutter (Sosie Bacon), whose visit with a newly admitted patient rapidly turns gruesome. The young woman (Caitlin Stasey), beside herself with fear, suddenly…

Ripe with cliché, filled with face-offs and defined by mediocrity, Section Eight hits cinemas from Sept 23 with some serious pay check players.  Featuring Mickey Rourke (The Wrestler), Dolph Lundgren (The Expendables 4), and Scott Adkins (John Wick: Chapter Four) – Section Eight is a low rent action flick which rarely attempts anything new. As it uses a simplistic revenge premise to do some globe-trotting, stage some fist fights, then link it all together with an ambiguous organization populated by archetypes.   Section…