Desperately Seeking Alicia

"She came to see me in her very best shoes."
Originally uploaded by Ingrid!

There wasn't enough gay in The Big Combo for me. It was included in this year's London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival under the flimsiest of reasons: two of the main villain's henchmen appear to be a couple - American versions of Ronnie and Reggie Kray, those infamous Eastend twins.  They share a bedroom (separate beds though), plan on running away together and don't appear too keen on women, but nothing's ever explicitly said... it could just be that they are <b>really</b> good friends.  Sadly, they didn't appear very often in the film, leaving a ridiculous plotline the job to hold my attention. It's a classic noir though, with private detectives, loose brunettes, dumb blondes and lots of bad lines.

Again, so lovely to sit somewhere in the South Bank, surrounded by lesbians, gay men and trannies of all ages and back grounds, sipping on a pint of ale, before going into one of the BFI's comfy cinemas. I was invited by my neighbour blu_bear to see The Big Combo and afterwards we debated which of the two possibly-gay henchmen was the most fanciable (consensus in the end was Fanny, a sort of meaner version of Jude Law.) We also thought the film had some great quotable quotes and a decent soundtrack, but was otherwise pretty boring and not worth watching unless you are surrounded by an audience keen on laughing at it. Might also help to smoke a big spliff beforehand.

It put us in the mood to visit the Lady Luck Club soon.