Lightdeossk Captivating movie !

Spoonatects Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

RipDelight This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

Maleeha Vincent It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

david-3489 God I really wanted to love this film...but I felt I needed a wash afterwards. The best I can say is that I truly see it as the British "Paris Is Burning", and by that I mean a vivid time-capsule/snapshot of desperately unhappy, dysfunctional people barely covering their rock-bottom self esteem with bucket-loads of glitter. Mental illness, suicide and disillusionment seep from the screen. And possibly worst of all, there is no real camaraderie amongst these drifting souls, only bitching and casual backstabbing.One sad character declares smugly that he f*cked 1,000 people in 2 years in Highgate Woods and then in the next breath tells us how "devastated" he was when he discovered he was HIV positive, and that no one else could possibly know what true devastation is!The dimwit proceeds with the age-old cliché that he saw a past conquest in public with his wife and kids (how very Naked Civil Servant!) when of course the joke, as always, is on the jaded know-it-all.Self-proclaimed "ringmaster" (no pun intended, I think) Jonny, fancies himself a serious thesp, (quoting from the Bard, trying his luck at the Edinburgh festival) but seems to know instinctively he is little more than a clown.The scene in which lesbian drag-queen (don't ask) Holestar decides to set up a Drag Workshop would be hilarious if it weren't so tragic. Like a deleted scene from Little Britain, the workshop attracts just two punters, one of whom has second thoughts, having received a warning from God (really!) Holestar's desperate attempts to drum up trade outside the venue ("Drag, anyone?!") give credence to her earlier announcement that she considers suicide "every day".There is a pervasive cruelty in this film I rather liked. Forcing its six subjects to visit their families and face uncomfortable and unpleasant truths was cringe-making in the extreme. The transsexual's Northern dad is a pathetic, noble character trying to do and say the right things, with not a lot of success. HIV man's mother says with unwitting irony how, when her son came out as gay, her one and only stipulation was that he should "stay away from the woods".Only performer Scottee acquits himself well. Painfully, messily honest, he comes across as likable and actually seems to progress during the film, re-building burnt bridges with his family. He also seems to have a lucid self-awareness that the other 5 sorely need.All in all, a well-made, gruesomely voyeuristic cautionary tale about drifting, disillusioned, middle-aged hedonists. I honestly cannot wait for Part Two (maybe in 10 years' time?) Like ITV's "Seven-Up" series, I have a feeling not all the protagonists will still be with us.

nidgefarky . I think I must have seen a completely different movie from all of the other reviewers as this is quite possibly the worst movie I've ever seenHow on earth you could film it over a period of six years and end up with such a rambling, incoherent series of snapshots is quite beyond me.Lest anyone reading this think it is from some rabid homophobe let me state that I am a gay man, I have lived in the East End, I do consider drag (can be) an art form and I wholeheartedly encourage the human race to seek out alternative lifestyles BUT this just depicts the characters as shallow, self-centered and utterly narcissistic

Tom Dooley New film maker Colin Rothbart brings us a documentary that goes under the sequins and glitter of the East End of London drag scene. It stars many a well known name of that small – yet perfectly formed – circle of performers. Jonny Woo is very much to the forefront as is Scotee and Holestar ('the tranny with the fan – ee').There is film from a few years back and features many a fabulous moment along the way including Glastonbury, the Royal Opera House and the Edinburgh Festival. There is also the story of Gay Bingo. Some of the pieces to camera are nakedly honest and can be quite moving especially the stories of rejection and self destruction in a miasma of drugs and alcohol.The soundtrack is great too – check out 'I can't get the glitter out of the groove' along with some other excellent numbers. I think it is Jonny Woo who says at one point that they may not look to good on the outside but 'inside we are feeling glamorous'. I think that sums it up and drag makes the World a more colourful, vibrant place and long may it and the queens reign – I doff my diamanté tiara to all involved – truly exceptional.

axelsee I expected (and was hoping for) a laugh and a close-up view of a lot of parties and a lot of drag. I got all that, but what really makes this film stand out is that it looks beyond the glamour and the fun at the people behind it, their lives and also their hardships. It portrays whole persons, rather than just the characters you see on stage, and so you get to see more than what you are presented with in their shows. You get to see the connection between the glowing public persona and what's behind it. The film raises important questions about what it is that makes these performers who they become, and it carefully tells comprehensive and often very touching stories about their lives. This film gets full marks from me because of its combination of entertainment and insight. Thumbs up!