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Blue Film

Blue Film

Director – Elliot Tuttle – 2025 – US – Cert. 18 – 85m

*****

As a gay cam performer visits an older punter to discover they have a shared past, their encounter breaks many taboos – out in UK cinemas on Friday, September 11th

Somewhere in L.A., Aaron Eagle (Kieron Moore) appears in his underwear on cam to web audiences. His platform of choice allows punters to tip him cash tokens as and when either he encourages them or they like what they see. And, who knows, at the end of the night, if you pay the right amount, he might come round to your house…

One of his punters tonight is a much older man (Reed Birney) whose face is concealed by a balaclava mask. Who tips, then turns him off and lies back to relax to music. Later, Aaron will come round for this one night to this punter’s house. Unaware that they have a shared connection from their past lives.

Disturbingly, there are also snippets in the mix of home video footage of a small boy. Wholly innocent footage – or it would be were it not for its one-way communication sex cam context – which renders this footage quite upsetting as your mind starts to make connections warranted or unwarranted. … Read the rest

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SCALA!!!
Or, the incredibly strange rise and fall of the world’s wildest cinema and how it influenced a mixed-up generation of weirdos and misfits

Directors – Ali Catterall, Jane Giles – 2023 – UK – Cert. 18 – 96m

*****

From 1978 to 1993, London’s Scala Cinema programmed everything from art house to sexploitation, ushering in the upcoming generation of anti-establishment musicians, filmmakers, and others – out in UK cinemas on Friday, January 5th

Whatever the strengths of this film – and they are legion – it may be impossible for me to write an objective review of it. From my first visit to Tottenham Street to watch an afternoon programme of back-to-back Tex Avery animation shorts on Saturday, 25th October 1980, I could often be found at London’s Scala cinema in the 1980s, broadening my mind as I lapped up welcome servings of movies long or short, old or new, highbrow or trashy. So there are a few additional titbits in what follows which come from my own personal, mental Scala archive of memory rather than from the documentary itself.

As for the date, my memory’s not actually that good. Such information can, however, be discerned from the wondrous if unfeasibly large-sized book SCALA CINEMA 1978-1993, which amongst other things contains all the monthly Scala programmes. It was written by co-director and former Scala employee / programmer Jane Giles’ and edited by fellow co-director Ali Catterall.… Read the rest