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Review Alluvial Filmworks / Bump: Ultimate Gay Travel Companion: Western Ameri
Release date: 2009-02-03
Run time: 72 min.
Creator: Shannon McDonough

Review Bump: Ultimate Gay Travel Companion: Western Ameri / Alluvial Filmworks:


Review Water Bearer Films / Next Year in Jerusalem [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Colleen O'Neill
  • Georgina Spelvin
  • Peter J. Byrnes
  • Steven Brindberg
  • David Nahmod
  • Louis Edmonds
Release date: 2008-05-27
Run time: 103 min.
Creator: Richard Barone
Price: £12.37

Review Next Year in Jerusalem [1997] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Water Bearer Films:


Review Quantum / Working Men [2001]
Release date: 2001-08-27
Run time: 57 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £7.96

Review Working Men [2001] / Quantum:


Review Fox Lorber / Hard Pill [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Jennifer Elise Cox
  • Susan Slome
  • Scotch Ellis Loring
  • Mike Begovich
  • John Baumgartner
  • Jonathan Slavin
Release date: 2006-05-23
Run time: 94 min.
Creator: K. Dayton Mesher
Price: £9.57

Review Hard Pill [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Fox Lorber:


Review Jef Films/Mvd / Bilitis [1977] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Madeleine Damien
  • Patti D'Arbanville
  • David Hamilton
  • Germaine Delbat
  • Mathieu Carrière
  • Irka Bochenko
Release date: 2005-06-28
Run time: 95 min.
Creator: Francis Lai
Price: £13.16

Review Bilitis [1977] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Jef Films/Mvd:


Review Picture This / Days [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Riccardo De Filippis
  • Thomas Trabacchi
  • Laura Muscardin
  • Davide Bechini
  • Riccardo Salerno
  • Monica Rametta
Release date: 2002-12-10
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: David Osorio
Price: £13.53

Review Days [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Picture This:


Review Tla Releasing / Sorry, Haters [2006]
Release date: 2007-10-22
Run time: 83 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £12.78

Review Sorry, Haters [2006] / Tla Releasing:


Review MGM / La Cage Aux Folles [1980] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Ugo Tognazzi
  • Carmen Scarpitta
  • Rémi Laurent
  • Claire Maurier
  • Michel Serrault
  • Edouard Molinaro
Release date: 2001-07-24
Run time: 110 min.
Creator: Jean Poiret
Price: £6.49

Review La Cage Aux Folles [1980] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / MGM:

A likeable 1977 French farce (and the basis for the 1996 American remake, The Birdcage), this popular comedy was one of the most successful international films of all time, and even spawned a Broadway musical and two sequels. It tells the story of a gay couple who-when one man's son from a previous liaison brings home his fiancée-masquerade as husband and wife for their prospective in-laws. Le Cage Aux Folles is saved from becoming an exercise in silliness by the heartfelt characterisations of the gay nightclub owners. La Cage aux Folles is one of the funniest imports from Europe and a great comedy in any venue. -Robert Lane In the French farce La Cage aux Folles, Ugo Tognazzi and Michel Serrault star as Renato and Albin, a middle-aged gay couple and co-owners of a nightclub, the titular Cage aux Folles, where hysterically effeminate Albin stars as drag act Zaza. The long-suffering Renato once briefly enjoyed a heterosexual relationship and has a 20-year-old son, Laurent. When the latter turns up one day and announces he is to marry the daughter of one M Charrier, deputy leader of the Moral Order party, Renato is initially appalled. However, he comes round and reluctantly agrees to a meeting with the girl's parents, in which he will pose as a high-ranking diplomat, rid the apartment of all its queenly trappings and try to persuade Albin to lie low. The final 20 minutes of the movie, in which this charade of austerity and propriety falls entirely to pieces are among the most aisle-rollingly uproarious ever committed to celluloid. It was remade by Hollywood as The Birdcage, but this original is far funnier. [+]
Although perhaps a little dated and stereotypical in its depiction of gay life there is real sympathy for, and affection conveyed between, Renato and Albin. The scenes with the Charrier family, who, it turns out, have problems of their own, cut an utterly gloomy bourgeois contrast with the screaming flamboyance of the nightclub scenes. The Charrier's unscrupulous chauffeur is one of the film's many treasures, his final "Combien?" provoking the film's crowning guffaw. All this iced with a delicious soundtrack from Ennio Morricone which wafts with the nostalgic scent of late-1970s South of France. On the DVD: La Cage aux Folles is unfortunately presented in a not terribly good 1:66:1 transfer: much of the crackle and faded colours of the original remain, while the soundtrack is fuzzy in places. The only extra is the original trailer. -David Stubbs.

Review TLA Releasing / Straight-Jacket [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Sam Pancake
  • Matt Letscher
  • Victor Raider-Wexler
  • Veronica Cartwright
  • David Burke
  • Richard Day
Release date: 2005-06-07
Run time: 96 min.
Creator: Steve Edwards
Price: £7.94

Review Straight-Jacket [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / TLA Releasing:


Review Columbia TriStar / Philadelphia [1993] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Antonio Banderas
  • Andre B. Blake
  • Gene Borkan
  • Jordan Cael
  • Obba Babatunde
Release date: 2004-11-02
Run time: 125 min.
Creator: Howard Shore
Price: £9.87

Review Philadelphia [1993] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Columbia TriStar:

Philadelphia wasn't the first movie about AIDS (it followed such worthy independent films as Parting Glances and Longtime Companion), but it was the first Hollywood studio picture to take AIDS as its primary subject. In that sense, Philadelphia is a historically important film. As such, it's worth remembering that director Jonathan Demme (Melvin and Howard, Something Wild, The Silence of the Lambs) wasn't interested in preaching to the converted; he set out to make a film that would connect with a mainstream audience. And he succeeded. Philadelphia was not only a hit, it also won Oscars for Bruce Springsteen's haunting "The Streets of Philadelphia," and for Tom Hanks as the gay lawyer Andrew Beckett who is unjustly fired by his firm because he has AIDS. Denzel Washington is another lawyer (functioning as the mainstream-audience surrogate) who reluctantly takes Beckett's case and learns to overcome his misconceptions about the disease, about those who contract it, and about gay people in general. The combined warmth and humanism of Hanks and Demme were absolutely essential to making this picture a success. The cast also features Jason Robards, Antonio Banderas (as Beckett's lover), Joanne Woodward, and Robert Ridgely, and, of course, those Demme regulars Charles Napier, Tracey Walter and Roger Corman. -Jim Emerson.

Review Cinema Epoch / The Man You Had in Mind [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • James Tuchschmidt
Release date: 2008-06-10
Run time: 95 min.
Creator: Stephen Gosson
Price: £9.97

Review The Man You Had in Mind [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Cinema Epoch:


Review 10% Productions / Fake I.D. [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Asia
  • Stephen Bealsey
Release date: 2004-12-28
Run time: 86 min.
Price: £11.01

Review Fake I.D. [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / 10% Productions:


Review Quantum Leap / Huge Torpedos
Actors & Directors
  • Karl Thomas
  • Craig Williams
  • Phillip St. John
Release date: 2004-07-26
Run time: 60 min.
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.97

Review Huge Torpedos / Quantum Leap:


Review Fantoma / In a Year With 13 Moons [1978] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Gottfried John
  • Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Peter Kollek
  • Isolde Barth
  • Günther Kaufmann
  • Ingrid Caven
Release date: 2004-04-13
Run time: 124 min.
Creator: Peer Raben
Price: £8.95

Review In a Year With 13 Moons [1978] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Fantoma:


Release date: 2008-09-15
Run time: 80 min.
RRP: £17.99
Price: £17.59

Review Do I Love You? / Peccadillo Pictures:


Review Greenwood / Cooper / DaVinci Body 1: The Upper Body [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Release date: 2004-01-06
Run time: 50 min.
Price: £9.95

Review DaVinci Body 1: The Upper Body [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Greenwood / Cooper:


Review Desertion / Desertion
Release date: 1997-11-10
Run time: 56 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £13.84

Review Desertion / Desertion:


Actors & Directors
  • Anders Agenso
Release date: 2006-06-27
Run time: 90 min.

Review You Are Not Alone [1978] / Tla Releasing:


Release date: 1997-08-25
Run time: 60 min.
Price: £15.99

Review Jocks / Carter USM:


Review Peccadillo Pictures / Drole De Felix [2000]
Actors & Directors
  • Sami Bouajila
  • Jacques Martineau
  • Patachou
  • Ariane Ascaride
  • Pierre-Loup Rajot
  • Olivier Ducastel
  • Charly Sergue
Release date: 2001-04-23
Run time: 91 min.
Creator: Philippe Martin
RRP: £15.99
Price: £9.20

Review Drole De Felix [2000] / Peccadillo Pictures:

If the idea of a French, subtitled, gay, soul-searching road film doesn't exactly sound like your cup of tea, think again: Drole de Felix is a film that will transcend any barrier. Felix of the title is a young, gay French Arab who decides to travel south from Normandy to Marseilles in search of the father who abandoned him before he was born. His journey (mainly by hitchhiking but also by slightly less legal means) forms the bulk of the film's storyline, combined with a handful of characters who become brief but important parts of his life. Sami Bouajili carries the film magnificently, switching effortlessly from the lighter, comedic moments (of which there are many, including a surprising amount regarding the character's HIV-positive status) to Felix's search for self. There is a rather unnecessary subplot concerning a witnessed murder, but even it has a moving conclusion. On paper, perhaps, not the most enticing of prospects, Drole de Felix is, in it's own quiet way, a gem. -Phil Udell.

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