Fridae

Winner of Seven Golden Horse awards, amongst other international accolades, Lan Yu is one of the most satisfying gay romances in Asian cinema. Bring your boyfriend along, if you're attached; bring your ex, if you're psychotic; or, like yours truly, a pack of tissues if you're single and too available.

In this enjoyable gangsterama, Garrett Hedlund plays a gay musician who bands together with his three brothers (one of them played by Mark Wahlberg) to find and exact revenge on their mother's killers.

Canto-pop diva Sammi Cheng takes centerstage as Stanley Kwan's latest long-suffering muse in Everlasting Regret. Having gone to Venice and left without a Golden Lion, the film is still worth watching simply for its opulent beauty. And I'm not just talking about Cheng and the male leads.

Fridae's music mistress, Mariah Scary, flies off her chair and flutters around in excitement after hearing Antony and the Johnsons' new album.

"Yes! Primal desire - that's unchanging! Every man from Paris to China feels the same urgent stirring in his loins." That's the Marquis de Sade for you. Quills by Luna-id is an enjoyably unsettling piece of intellectual stimulation. You don't have to worry about protection for this one.

Fridae's music mistress, Ms Mariah Scary, reviews Sarah McLachlan's latest release Bloom Remixed and fumbles towards ecstasy.

Zee previews the much-feted Singapore art film Be With Me and found its depiction of teenage lesbian romance to be refreshingly unsentimental and objective.

Dubbed the lesbian cousin to Ang Lee's The Wedding Banquet, out writer/director Alice Wu's rave debut feature, Saving Face, has proven to be a hit with lesbian viewers in the US and elsewhere.

Imagine a film populated with penguins, replacing the customary roles of human actors. This is not Madagascar - this film marches to a different drum beat.

Awarded a Silver Bear for Individual Artistic Contribution, the Alfred Bauer prize and the Fipresci Prize at the 55th Berlinale this year; Malaysian-born, Taiwan-based director Tsai Ming-liang's The Wayward Cloud shocks audiences with its explicit sex scenes alternated with kitschy song and dance numbers.