Category: Arts & Culture

Jan 12
2015 Golden Globe Awards: Matt Bomer Wins for The Normal Heart

Matt Bomer has won the Golden Globe award for best supporting actor in a TV movie or mini series for his performance in the Normal Heart.  In accepting the award, Bomer thanked his husband and children. The Normal Heart depicts the rise of the HIV-AIDS crisis in New York City amongst the gay community between […]

Jan 08
Winslet in Russell? A Lazy Adventure

At the far end of my holidays and while most other people I know are heading back to work, I escape for a couple more days to the beach in Russell. And what better fortune, then to apparently have the presence of a great near us… Between yelly kids, lovely old folks and white picket […]

Jan 06
Movie Review: Interstella

What could make me happier then an intelligent, sci fi film that doesn’t rely on big ooh aah aliens and horrible versions of end of days humanity? Interstellar nails it. I know, I’m late to the game but none the less there is no better father-daughter bonding then a father-daughter sci fi film and as […]

Jan 05
52 Tuesdays Announced For International Release

52 Tuesdays has just announced an international release. Lydia Zanetti explains why it is a must see.  There’s so many things to get excited about in 2015 but this Aussie film trailer has just topped a bunch of them… Winner of the World Cinema Dramatic Directing Award after it’s 2014 Sundance Film Festival premiere, 52 Tuesdays […]

Dec 31
Film review: The Imitation Game

Sam Te Kani casts a critical eye of the Alan Turing biopic. The Imitation Game is aptly named. It’s a biopic, a genre I normally avoid with the excremental likes of anything by Michael Bay or Nicholas Sparks, in as much as they’re emotional exploitations helmed by reluctant star-power and eager publicists. And if said […]

Dec 22
Queer Hip Hop – A Couple of Places to Start

Lydia Zanetti provides a useful beginners guide to queer hip hop.   RANDA Let’s start at home, eh… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYw3zSKn4_M   ZEBRA KATZ Since Rick Jones used Ima Read for his Paris Fashion Week show in 2012, Zebra Katz has shot to near-instant fame. Which is ideal for us. http://youtu.be/8oUmG7Tu50E   ANGEL HAZE If you’re not […]

Dec 20
Why No GLBT Characters at Hogwarts?

Lydia Zanetti takes a look at JK Rowling’s recent comments on GLBT characters in the Harry Potter series.  J K Rowling has recently confirmed via Twitter that she did intend characters in the infamous Harry Potter series to be part of the LGBTIQ community. Fans have come out of the woodwork wondering why she didn’t […]

Dec 12
Film Review: 52 Tuesdays

express film reviewer Sam Te Kani sums up Australian feature film 52 Tuesdays in one word – ‘wow!’ What is it about Australian cinema that’s so much more varied and insightful than our own, more ready to take risks both in content and form? Yes New Zealand cinema has an edge, but considering the geographical […]