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Author: Bryen Dunn

Off The Rails – three women revisit their youth adventures in Europe (includes interview)

posted Tuesday, December 14, 2021

by: in Film

Off The Rails is the story of three fifty-something women set out to repeat the European inter-railing adventures of their youth after their close friend passes away leaving them rail tickets, and a final request: to take her 18 year-old teenage daughter with them in her place. With lost passports, train strikes and romantic entanglements […]

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Circus Boy – a drawn out story about what?

posted Tuesday, December 14, 2021

by: in Film, Queer

Circus Boy is a story about a gay man named Thomas who seeks reconciliation with his mother after he and his husband, Michael, adopt a boy he’s training for circus school. Thomas is an avid believer that the circus is accessible to all people, and he takes joy from helping others find their flow by developing […]

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Harry Chapin: When In Doubt, Do Something – the inspirational story of a musician and activist

posted Monday, December 13, 2021

by: in Film

Harry Chapin: When In Doubt, Do Something is  documentary that tells the story of famed singer/songwriter Harry Chapin’s short lived music career, and more importantly his life long dedication and passionated activism work toward trying to end world hunger, homelessness, and poverty. He spent his fame and fortune chasing a dream, and in the process […]

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The Boathouse – psychological thriller that leaves no conclusive evidence

posted Sunday, December 12, 2021

by: in Film

When an emotionally fragile young woman takes a job as nanny to two troubled children at a remote summer cottage, she falls in love with the children’s father, while becoming enmeshed in the mystery of their estranged mother – with whom, it turns out, the young woman has her own fraught history. As the summer […]

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Three LGBTQ+ flicks to catch at Whistler Film Festival, online until Dec 31, 2021 (includes interviews)

posted Friday, December 10, 2021

by: in Film, Online Events, Queer

The pandemic has been disruptive to most everyone and everything in some form of another, however there have been many good things to come from it as well. One that I’m particularly happy with is the greater online accessibility to film festival feature films, documentaries, and shorts that were previously limited to only in person […]

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Toronto’s “Mouth Congress” releases long-awaited album, with two local area live performances

posted Friday, December 10, 2021

by: in Celebrity, Music, Queer

Toronto’s Mouth Congress — friends Paul Bellini and Scott Thompson of Kids In The Hall fame — wrote and recorded hundreds of songs between 1984 and 1988 without ever putting out a proper release. Alongside various cohorts and conspirators, the band drew on their experiences as gay men in the ‘80s to craft hilariously crude punk songs that run the […]

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Beyto – parents try to keep traditional values for their son in a modern world

posted Tuesday, December 7, 2021

by: in Film

BEYTO is based on the novel by award-winning writer Yusuf Yesilöz, a multicultural story of love and emancipation, full of empathy, sensuality and summer feelings. Beyto is a terrific swimmer and everybody’s cool buddy, but as the young Swiss man with Turkish roots falls in love with his handsome coach Mike, his perfect world seems to fall apart. […]

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A Boy Like That – inspired by Kubrick’s “Lolita”, with a queer twist

posted Sunday, December 5, 2021

by: in Film

A Boy Like That tells the story of Harold, a middle-aged Mexican theatre acting coach who travels to New York and finds himself obsessing over a precocious teenage boy named Felix, who he believes is the reincarnation of his first childhood love. Inspired by Stanley Kubrick’s 1962 film,Lolita, A Boy Like That explores a taboo […]

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Benedetta – 17th-century nun suffers from disturbing religious and erotic visions

posted Friday, December 3, 2021

by: in Film

BENEDETTA​​ is the latest work from madman-genius filmmaker Paul Verhoeven (BASIC INSTINCT, ELLE). Virginie Efira (SIBYL) stars as Benedetta, a historical figure whose extraordinary story was captured in Judith C. Brown’s book Immodest Acts: The Life of a Lesbian Nun in Renaissance Italy. A 17th-century nun in Italy suffers from disturbing religious and erotic visions. […]

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Billy Idol’s “Happy Holidays” album is now remixed, remastered, and available on vinyl

posted Wednesday, December 1, 2021

by: in Music

Billy Idol’s remixed and remastered Christmas album Happy Holidays is out now for the first time on vinyl and streaming platforms via Dark Horse Records. The new edition of Happy Holidays is packaged with new artwork and available for purchase on black vinyl, CD, digital and on limited edition white vinyl.  Originally released in 2006, the album features Idol […]

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