On this week in history
Every week we go back to re-visit some of the significant happenings that took place in living memory; just about, for some of us. To remind ourselves of how life has changed and how some things stay ...
Tag Archives: AIDS
My Night with Reg feels like a modern classic
Robert Tanitch reviews My Night with Reg at Apollo Theatre, London W1 Kevin Elyot’s excellent comedy of gay sexual manners was already a period piece when it was originally staged in 1994. Succe ...
Feels like a TV movie with the facts shamefully exploited to win over the audience
Joyce Glasser reviews Dallas Buyers Club (February 7, 2014) Cert. 15, 116 min. The PR campaign for the Dallas Buyers Club wants us to know that for twenty years the film struggled to get made, due in ...
A fascinating, revelatory documentary
Joyce Glasser reviews How to Survive a Plague (November 8, 2013) Cert. 15, 110 min. The first known death from AIDS was in 1981 (a New Yorker). In 1985 Rock Hudson died of AIDS but few knew his cause ...