Peccadillo Pictures
Film Review: Dressed As A Girl
Described as “The frockumentary of the year”, you could be forgiven for assuming that there’s very little depth to Colin Rothbart’s film Dressed As A Girl. Whilst there’s plenty of lipstick and mascara on show, the make-up only goes to cover-up the much more serious issues hiding underneath. Rothbart spent six years filming Dressed As …
DVD Review: Appropriate Behaviour
Let’s be honest, most American romantic comedies are quite frankly awful. They mostly fall into two categories: cliche-riddled cheese-fests or over-melodramatic nonsense. We’re not much better ourselves in the UK. Every so often though an indie rom-com appears which bucks the trend. In the tradition of Greenberg, Juno, Lost in Translation, In A World and …
DVD Review: Eastern Boys
Immigration is a huge political issue across Europe. Whilst the media like to deal in sensationalist headlines and scaremongering, it’s often left to cinema to paint a more humane and empathetic picture. Over the last few years we’ve been graced with Sin Nombre, Biutiful, The Golden Dream and the wonderful Le Harve, amongst many others. …
DVD Review: Wakolda (The German Doctor)
One of the lesser known scandals of World War II was the fact that many Nazis escaped to South America. It’s believed that some are still living there now. The Angel of Death, Josef Mengele, lived in Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil after fleeing Germany in 1949, until his death thirty years later. This was achieved …
DVD Review: I am Divine
Occasionally someone comes along who is such a huge personality that they immediately dominate every film they’re in, becoming a phenomenon. Divine (Harris Glenn Milstead), actor, singer and drag queen, became a huge underground success through his collaboration with John Waters. I am Divine is his story. Jeffrey Schwarz’s documentary charts Milstead’s early life right …