[rating=5]
US: 106 min • Columbia Tristar • DVD

Truly magnificient femme fatale cinema, a film noir set in a world where the dark meets the light.

Gilda is considered to be one of the all time great femme fatales; displaying all the sexual power, allure and danger characteristic of those who wear the mantle, but what sets her apart from her predecessors is that Gilda doesn’t remain the enigmatic, almost supernatural, archetype.

[rating=4]
US: 104 min • Mirimax • London Lesbian & Gay Film Choice

An impressive and disturbing fim in which a priest is accused of child-abuse … and Meryl Street steals the show (again).

Meryl Streep is one of those rare actors whose presence is commanding, superlative one could say, in everything that she does. She is like Ian McKellen in this.

[rating=4]
224 pages • Bloomsbury • January 19th, 2009 [PB]

From the pre-World War II era to the 1960s, this distinctively European novel tells the story of the amoral Jakob.

“His way of moving, speaking, and daydreaming – to Erneste, everything about him seemed utterly superlative. There was nothing to prevent him becoming the perfect waiter.”.

[rating=4]
192 pages • IDW Publishing Horse • March 15th, 2008 [PB]

The series Angel: After the Fall picks up where the television show left off. This collection starts with the 8th installment, the one in which the series found its way after a faulty start.

This collection takes the story right back to the beginning, to the very why and what of Angel. And the rest is … spoiler.

[rating=4]
188 pages • Minerva • 1985

Fast-paced, funny, and astute, Boating for Beginners is unlike anything else Winterson has written.

Boating for Beginners is, in a way, mythology for beginners. It is the process by which the everyday is transformed into the eternal that is its subject. The fact that Noah accidentally creates God out of a toaster and a Black Forest Gateau is Winterson’s comedic take on this very process.

[rating=5]
Released on November 23rd, 1976

Joni Mitchell at her finest in a road-story album that transcends the era in which it was written.

It is with Hejira, her ninth album, that Mitchell had reached a maturity in which her imagination and talent burst the banks of traditional song-writing.

Carved in Marble: An Interview with Gore Vidal.

Polari Magazine talks to the legendary author about his great character Myra Breckinridge, his 63 year writing career, and the turning point promised by the election of Obama.

My greatest achievement is that I’ve never killed anybody. Which reveals an awful lot of temptation. Because I have been visited.

[rating=4]
Released on March 23rd, 2009

The Pet Shop Boys return with a contemporary and accessible album.

If the album’s common sound is mesmerizing techno-pop, then the common subject matter is not unlike any other Pet Shop Boys endeavour. Yes sees Tennant and Lowe wax lyrical about excessive materialism, inane celebrity, climate change and love.

An interview with Nica Brooke

An interview with a new kind of star who is completely outside the world of the record industry.

I have my own studio, write, record, produce and engineer on my own, and so I don’t have any expenses unless I need a musician to play an instrument..

[rating=5]
UK: 90 min • BandStock.com • Heaven, London

The maestro Patrick Wolf delivers an electric performance.

Patrick Wolf has all the charisma of the great ‘70s glam rock stars with the sensibility of a troubadour, and like all troubadours he has a tale or two to tell.