When the film purporting to document the formation of The Village People opened in 1980 it garnered almost universally bad reviews. The film was also seen as being so bad that (along with Xanadu) it brought about the formation of an annual awards ceremony celebrating the worst of cinema, The Golden Raspberry Awards. But, is …
Continue reading Is It Really That Bad?- Can’t Stop The Music (1980)
Scott Thorsen is a film set animal trainer. On meeting Bob Black in a gay bar he is then taken to a performance by Liberace. Black knows the flamboyant performer and so takes Scott to meet him backstage. Liberace is taken with Thorsen and employs him but they quickly become lovers with Thorsen then becoming …
Continue reading Meathook Cinema Hall of Fame- Behind The Candelabra (2013)
Norah (Juliet Prowse) finds a job spinning records in a New York nightclub after making the move to the city from Rochester. She finds herself the recipient of menacing and threatening phone calls which quickly escalate in severity. When she first receives them she thinks it's just a drunk randomly calling people. But then the …
Drag act Danny La Rue was one of the highest-paid entertainers in the UK in the early 70s. Our Miss Fred was a film written specifically as a vehicle for him. The film concerns a classically trained actor, Fred Wimbush who is asked to entertain the troops with his drag act in France during World …
I've always been fascinated by the writing of, and indeed, the legend of playwright Joe Orton. It was so refreshing to discover someone who was, shock horror, a confident homosexual in the 60s rather than some simpering, guilt-ridden closet case. I remember when I arrived in London to study film, a friend told me about …
Continue reading Meathook Cinema Hall of Fame- Prick Up Your Ears (1987)
A new addition to Netflix, this documentary chronicles the life and activism of Peter Tatchell who has campaigned for gay rights and indeed, human rights since his late teens. Born in Australia, he campaigned for issues such as Aboriginal land rights whilst at college. He moved to Britain where days after his arrival he learnt …
Today is my birthday. What would I love more than anything to celebrate 44 years on this planet? World peace? Sure. An end to poverty? That would be on my wishlist. The soundtrack for William Friedkin's 1980 masterpiece 'Cruising' remastered from the original master tapes? HELL YEAH!!! And that's whats happening. The brilliant company Waxwork …
Continue reading 2019- The Year of ‘Cruising’- Soundtrack and Blu ray release due
The news that I've been waiting for for many years has finally come to fruition. William Friedkin's masterpiece Cruising is coming to Blu Ray in Spring 2019. And not just that but the company handling the release are none other than the amazing Arrow Films. I couldn't be happier. This release should exceed all expectations. …
Continue reading It’s Almost Here! Cruising Hits Blu Ray in Spring 2019!
One of the earliest British gay-themed films ever made, this tells the tale of June 'George' Buckridge, the soon-to-be eclipsed star on the TV soap opera Applehurst. We see her relationship with the Baby Doll-like Childie and also the interventions of television executive Mrs Crofts. But does Crofts have her own agenda? This lesbian drama …
Continue reading Review- ‘The Killing of Sister George’ (1968)
From the director of the quite extraordinarily brilliant How To Survive A Plague comes this film. Marsha P Johnson was a black transvestite/drag queen (there was no 'transgender' then) who hung around Christopher Street in the 60s until her mysterious death when she was pulled out of the Hudson River in the early 90s. As we …
Continue reading Review- The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson (2017)
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