Inxeba (The Wound): The Mamba Review
The most talked about South African film of the past year is finally here. More than 12 months after it premiered at the Sundance Film festival and went on to win 19 awards around the world, Inxeba (The Wound) is in local cinemas. And it’s about time. Apart from the controversy and hype, the isiXhosa-language […]
Review: Priscilla Queen of the Desert the Musical
Wow! And I mean it – what a show. The breathtaking costumes, the uplifting music, the talented cast and, of course, the bus! It’s about time that we have the best of the best. So often the international shows that we see here are never quite as good as the non-touring versions and I feel […]
Moonlight – the Mamba review
It’s among the most lauded films of the past year, with eight Oscar nominations under its belt. So, does Moonlight live up to the hype as a great queer film? What most surprised me when watching Moonlight is discovering that what lies at its heart is a discreet, delicate love story. It’s one that’s rarely told […]
Joburg theatre review: Shrek the Musical
Musicals! It’s a genre you either love or hate. Shrek, at Gold Reef City’s Lyric Theatre, however, is not like most other musicals – well not like the ones I’ve ever seen. Based on the 2001 DreamWorks animation film of the same name, you know that you’re in good hands. Forget your Stephen Sondheims and […]
Film Review: Carol
Todd Haynes adapts the Patricia Highsmith novel The Price of Salt for the big screen in the visually beautiful and meticulously directed Carol. The film features Oscar winner Cate Blanchett (The Aviator, Blue Jasmine) and Oscar nominee Rooney Mara (Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) as unlikely lovers in 1952 New York. Similar to Haynes’ Far […]
Review: Madame Zingara presents The Celebration
You know, without us gay boys this world we live in would just be rather dull and boring. Totally meh and bleh, in fact. Case in point is the super-charming and super-talented Richard Griffin with his Madame Zingara’s Theatre of Dreams that, after 14 long months of planning, opened with a new dinner cirque production […]
Review: Lost in the White City
Co-directed by Tanner King Barklow (The Invisible War) and Israeli Gil Kofman, Lost in the White City is a fascinating film about a straight couple’s relationship which disintegrates during a Mediterranean summer in Tel Aviv. It stars rising indie actor Thomas Dekker as the hard drinking self-obsessed experimental film maker Kyle and Haley Bennett (The […]
Review: Saint Laurent
Director Bertand Bonello’s epic portrait of the life of influential fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent is beautifully captured in his amazing biopic Saint Laurent, starring the gorgeous Gaspard Ulliel as the iconic and tortured designer. Belgian actor Jeremie Renier (In Bruges) also stars as the French industrialist Pierre Berge who, together with Saint Laurent, founded […]
Review: The Imitation Game
Based upon the 1983 book by Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: The Enigma and brilliantly adapted into an insightful screenplay by Graham Moore, The Imitation Game is a superb and evocative historical drama about the breaking of the enigma code at Bletchley Park during World War II. Norwegian director Morten Tyldum elegantly weaves a very touching […]
Music Divas Special: Taylor Swift, Barbra Streisand, Annie Lennox, Bette Midler & more.
BETTE MIDLER – IT’S THE GIRLS The gay-friendly diva The Divine Miss M would probably be the first person to admit she’s a fabulous, fag-loving diva. She started her career making music for “just us gay girls” and 25 albums later, it’s like she never left us. It’s the Girls is a throwback to the […]