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20 June 2012 #432

If you've been counting down with Fridae, yes — we’re just one weekend away to this year's Pink Dot.

Luckily for us, our LGBT film for this summer has arrived a week early and naturally, The Moth Diaries is our pick of the week. Set in an all-girls boarding school and featuring the unearthly beauty of Lily Cole, this supernatural horror drama pays its dues to Sheridan Le Fanu's horror story about a lesbian vampire and her young victim.

Even in his semi-exile from Hollywood, Mel Gibson is still capable of making a gripping action film like How I Spent My Summer Vacation. Here, "Mad Mel" plays a conman who gets hauled into a corrupt prison complex and manages to survive, prosper, and do some ass-kicking and even dispenses some justice of his own.

A singer dissatisfied with the pressure-cooker world of Taiwanese idols absconds to a quaint provincial village populated with genial locals for some alone time in Snowfall in Taipei. It's all you ever wanted as an Asian film fan — a masterpiece from Wim Wenders done as a fluffy Taiwanese drama!

Till next week,

Vernon Chan

PICK OF THE WEEK
 

The Moth Diaries

The Moth Diaries
is a very tasteful tribute to vampire fiction and its guardian angels of Sex, Blood, and Death. Blood and death is a given, but the real horror about vampires is supposedly sex — the threat of female sexuality and implied lesbian relationships! The film is beautifully shot and well-written. Actually, a little too well-written to the extent that it shies away from being trashy and hysterical — the other two elements that would have complemented its inherent camp value.

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