In an era where musicals are making a comeback in the cinema (think Chicago, Sweeney Todd, Moulin Rouge, RENT) you can understand Rob Marshal’s confidence in directing a musical with an all-star cast. But musicals are also a very hard genre to pull off…

Ah, Tom Ford. You are one of the world’s leading fashion designers. Your smoldering, chiseled, five-o’-clock-shadow good looks are plastered all over magazines and billboards. Men want to be you, or at least they want to be your boyfriend…

Nowadays, for art-house fetishists around the world, the name Almodóvar is almost like a holy mantra, guaranteed to provide a new grail of contemporary world cinema with each biannual offering. The Manchego director’s latest film, Broken Embraces, is both a continuation of his recent output as well as a throwback…

“I don’t like men who pretend to be women, they disgust me” So says antagonist Pierre to his youthful protégé Jonas in Private Lessons, a Franco-Belgian production that explores the process of growing up and poses some uncomfortable questions about sexuality, authority and the corruption of youth…

Sometimes a movie comes along like a breath of fresh air. Patrik 1.5, is a gay movie that transcends any queer agenda to tell a heartfelt story of love, redemption and acceptance. Sweden is known for its progressive social views, a society that embraces differences…

Forty years ago, hippy kids from across the United States gathered to celebrate three days of peace and music at a site next to the sleepy hamlet White Lake, in the Catskills in New York State. The event, billed as “An Aquarian Exposition”…

Sacha Baron-Cohen has spent much of his career straddling the line between auteur and provocateur. His 2006 mockumentary Borat alternated sublimely between caustic satire and side-splitting slap stick. It was poignant commentary on the dark, ignorant underbelly…

With themes encompassing death, rebirth and memory, Soundless Wind Chime is an attempt by director Kit Hung to capture his own experiences of grief and loss. Ricky, a young Chinese man, journeys across rural Switzerland seeking closure…

It’s not often that a movie manages to be both entertaining and thought provoking, but this sleeper international hit from Finland manages to surprise, astound, disturb and amuse in almost equal quantities. Released in 2007 and nominated for…

Well in all honesty, this film by director/writer Scud really leaves a lot to be desired. I like gratuitous full-frontal nudity as much as the next homo but the two leads’ physiques cannot carry the entire movie. The voice-over narrative…