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Movie review: J Edgar... a gay love story

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:46:38 PST

J Edgar is, surprisingly, a tender and believable love story about an aggressively gruff bastard of a man and his forbearing, attentive partner.

Hot film alert: Pariah

Sat, 14 Jan 2012 16:34:56 PST

Pariah, a film which tells the story of a 17-year old African-American teenager embracing her identity as a lesbian is causing massive buzz in the US. You can read more about the film and watch a trailer here. And let's hope it gets to NZ soon!

Backgrounder: The (unattractive) Iron Lady

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:03:16 PST

Meryl Streep's performance in this movie is flawless, but the subject herself is unattractive. For those too young to remember Margaret Thatcher, here's a brief backgrounder.

Number 8 Films presents: The Green

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:44:43 PST

The latest Auckland Gay Film Night offering is The Green, in which a gay teacher is accused of engaging in “inappropriate behaviour” with a male student.

Gen Silent: would you go back into the closet to retire?

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 10:23:48 PST

Number 8 Films is presenting Gen Silent in its next Auckland Gay Film Night, which tells six stories in the hope we can create a better future for our communities as they age.

Art or hate?

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 13:29:56 PST

Are the Big Day Out bound group known as "Odd Future" a collective of groundbreaking hip hop geniuses, or a bunch of arrogant, homophobic and women hating youngsters?

Weekend: Beyond the one night stand

Tue, 13 Sep 2011 13:21:47 PST

At Auckland's gay film night this month, Number 8 Films presents the award-winning UK film Weekend, about a one-night stand that becomes something more.

Review: Sea Purple

Mon, 12 Sep 2011 16:24:02 PST

In the tradition of tragic tales of forbidden lesbian love, Italian Film Festival feature Sea Purple (Viole di Mare) takes a look at the attempts of two women to be together in late 19th Century Sicily.

Review: Christopher + His Kind

Wed, 17 Aug 2011 15:10:27 PST

From heady hedonism to the horror of Nazi Germany, Christopher and His Kind portrays the stark change in Berlin in the early 30s through the eyes of the writer Christopher Isherwood.

Review: Circumstance

Sat, 16 Jul 2011 18:52:09 PST

Being a woman and falling in love with another woman in Iran is never going to be a recipe for an easy life. However director Maryam Keshavarz has managed to make a bittersweet treat of it.

La Zombie's Bruce LaBruce

Mon, 04 Jul 2011 10:53:57 PST

Craig Young threw a few questions at director Bruce LaBruce, whose gay zombie romp film La Zombie screened at Out Takes despite a push from a conservative group for it to be banned.

It's not for us

Fri, 01 Jul 2011 18:13:02 PST

Blogger Bipolar Bear and his filmmaking cohort Andy Jalfon are walking on air ahead of the NZ premiere of their latest short The Colonel's Outing - cause it comes after a fair few hurdles ...

Review: LA Zombie

Wed, 08 Jun 2011 10:40:50 PST

After all the excitement and angst, the attempts to ban it by those antiquated prudes at The Society for the Promotion of Community Standards, we finally got to see LA Zombie.

Review: Sasha "touching"

Thu, 02 Jun 2011 19:39:45 PST

The humour is gentle and beautifully played, with clashes of temperament and a sense of impeding, making this coming out romcom definitely worth seeing.

Review: Stonewall Uprising "Arresting"

Mon, 30 May 2011 16:52:54 PST

Stonewall Uprising at the Out Takes Film festival is an arresting, magnificent documentary which vividly reveals the start of the gay pride movement.

My sweet lady Anne

Mon, 30 May 2011 10:45:30 PST

Perhaps the biography and documentary accounts of the life of Anne Lister will be the lesbian hit at this year's Out Takes. But who was this pivotal figure in lesbian biography?

Review: We Were Here - "Stunning"

Sat, 28 May 2011 13:15:09 PST

The Out Takes film festival shines with a gritty, no punches pulled documentary about just one of the glbt communities which stared disaster in the face and somehow came through it.

Reviews: The String - "Nice"; Marine Story - "Worthy"

Fri, 27 May 2011 08:33:17 PST

The first two Out Takes films have screened and our reviewers were there with the opening night crowds. Here are reviews of The String and A Marine Story.

Review: Reflections of the Past

Wed, 25 May 2011 08:03:50 PST

This documentary explores the crime which shocked New Zealand in 1954, and looks at whether Juliet and Pauline were lesbians.

LA Zombie, Harm and the Christian Right

Wed, 11 May 2011 12:38:51 PST

"Most adults do have the intellectual development to comprehend that clearly, LA Zombie is a fantasy film. Except some pro-censorship social conservatives, it appears."