New look at future Oscar winner La Bola Negra — Plus Welsh gay film Pride and a Mother of the Week who loves to Cruise
I know it's going to win because I'm gay and gays just know how to do stuff.
Hi! David here.
Before coming to cinemas in October and Netflix this December, La Bola Negra is back with another perfect trailer sculpted by the gay gods themselves.
Blonde Penélope Cruz? Spanish Glenn Close? Beautiful, anguished men who look like they stepped out of a Renaissance painting?
What Spanish directors Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi have crafted here is nothing short of a masterpiece, one that belongs up there with the greats (and could even surpass some of them too).
Leonardo da Vinci has been real quiet recently, just saying.
Who knew Netflix would go from posting Queer As Folk DVDs to delivering a bonafide Best Picture winner at the Oscars? The trophies are coming. Mark my words.
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Mother of the Week
Where Mothers Come To Mother
Welcome back to Mother of the Week where we celebrate icons who have been Mother to us all.
This week's choice is really quite inviting. She is a mother with no parallel.
Have you guessed who it is yet?
