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Author: Paul Salt

Posted onMarch 23, 2021April 22, 2021

BFI Flare ‘Cowboys’ Review: A Moving Road Movie that Strays from the Path

Joe (Sasha Knight) is a trans boy who’s mother can’t accept her true gender identity. His unstable but supportive father (Steve Zahn) takes him into...

Posted onMarch 23, 2021April 22, 2021

BFI Flare ‘No Ordinary Man’ Review: Discovering the Man Behind the Noise

The story and legacy of Billy Tipton, the jazz musician and closeted trans man. After his death he became the subject of a media frenzy...

Posted onMarch 23, 2021April 22, 2021

BFI Flare 2021 ‘Poppy Field’ Review: Brothers in Arms

Cristi (Conrad Mericoffer) is a gay man and a police officer in Romania. After a tense visit from his lover and sister, he finds his...

Posted onMarch 23, 2021

BFI Flare ‘Tove’ Review: Intimate Portrait of the Woman Behind Moominvalley

Zaida Bergroth presents the life of Moomin creator Tove Jansson (Alma Pöysti). Living as a closeted gay woman in Helskinki at the end of the...

Posted onMarch 23, 2021April 22, 2021

BFI Flare 2021 ‘Dose’ Review: Creepy Euthanasia Thriller

Marcos (Carlos Portaluppi) works the night shift in the intensive care unit where he occasionally euthanizes his terminal patients. He does so out of what...

Posted onMarch 23, 2021April 22, 2021

BFI Flare 2021 ‘Valentina’ Review: A Transgender Teen Fights for a New Life

Valentina (Thiessa Woinbackk) is a trans girl who moves with her mother to a new town to start new lives. But to enrol in her...

Posted onMarch 23, 2021April 22, 2021

BFI Flare 2021 ‘Dramarama’ Review: Whacky but with a Good Heart

Gene (Nick Pugliese) wants to come out to his friends at their last murder mystery meeting. He’s given pause by his friends’ conservative Christian attitudes...

Posted onMarch 23, 2021April 22, 2021

BFI Flare ‘AIDS DIVA: The Legend of Connie Norman’ Review: A Powerful Testament to an Activist

At the height of the AIDS pandemic, Connie Norman emerged as a powerful voice for the gay and trans rights movement. With interviews and original...

Posted onMarch 16, 2021April 22, 2021

BFI Flare ‘The Obituary of Tunde Johnson’ Review: A Terrifying Cycle of Shame and Fear

Tunde Johnson is shot dead by the police one night. He’s a young black man driving to his closeted boyfriend’s birthday party when he is...

Posted onMarch 2, 2021April 22, 2021

‘I Care A Lot’ Review: I’m not disappointed. Just Angry.

Marla (Rosamund Pike) is a ruthless con artist who preys upon the elderly. The film opens with her successfully defending a case; draining an elderly...

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