BFI Flare 2021 ‘Jump Darling’ Review: Cloris Leachman’s Final Role is Amongst Her Best!
Russell (Thomas Duplessie) is a struggling actor turned drag artist stays with grandmother who is fighting to remain independent. As he reels from a nasty...
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BFI Flare ‘Sweetheart’ Review: Call Me By Your Name at the British Seaside
Aj (Nell Barlow) is stuck on holiday with her family. They reluctantly accept her sexual identity but not her sense of social responsibility and emergent...
‘Judas and the Black Messiah’ Review: The First Great Film of 2021
Recounting the shocking story of Black Panther Chairman Fred Hampton’s (Daniel Kaluuya) last days and his betrayal at the hands of petty thief turned Panther...
BFI Flare ‘My First Summer’ Review: Beautiful and Strange Story of First Love
After her mother commits suicide, hermitic young woman Claudia (Markella Kavenagh) hides in the house, avoiding authorities. Completely unknown to society, she is only able...
BFI Flare 2021 ‘Sublet’ Review: Mellow Tale of Intergenerational Romance
Michael (John Benjamin Hickey) is a travel writer journeying to Tel Aviv for an article. He sublets a small apartment with amateur filmmaker Tomer (Niv...
BFI Flare 2021 ‘Cured’ Review: Fascinating and Terrifying History of Prejudice in Psychiatry
Cured details the history of American Psychiactric attitudes to homosexual people. From decrying any non-heterosexual sexuality as a mental illness to the gradual acceptance of...
‘Raya and the Last Dragon’ Review: Shades of the East
Centuries after the last dragons gave their lives to banish the world of a dark, soul-absorbing force known as the Druun, the guardianship of an...
BFI Flare 2021 ‘Well Rounded’ Review: An Urgent Plea for Understanding
When a person wants to express their dislike of seeing fat people, they will tend to say that they should lose weight for their own...
BFI Flare 2021 ‘Kiss Me Before it Blows Up’ Review: Playing it Safe in Risky Territory
Israeli Jewish woman Shira Shalev (Moran Rosenblatt) is in love with her German girlfriend Maria (Luise Wolfram). Shira’s family are supportive of her love life,...
BFI Flare ‘P.S. Burn This Letter Please’ Review: Elegiac Monument to a Fabulous Past
Directors Michael Seligman and Jennifer Tiexiera’s documentary reveals a wealth of letters written by members of the drag and female impersonator scene of the 1950s....