Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesSci-Fi is a film genre we rarely see in moveies with LGBTQ story lines, and maybe there is a good reason for that . This low-budget debut feature from Kevin James Thornton who wrote, directed and starred in. plus writing & performing some of the music tracks is one such film which, even with … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesMexican filmmaker Julián Hernández’s latest cinematic treat is essentially a film within a film. It’s protagonist Emiliano is an openly gay director who’s current movie that we see in progress on screen involves filming real-life dancer Gloria Conterras and some of her students. It soon becomes apparent that Emiliano’s interests in the dancers go way beyond … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesJack is a 30-something-year-old ex-pat Brit living and working in New York when the INS refuses to renew his Residency Visa and he faces the real possibility of having to leave and go back to the UK which he left back when he was a teenager. Within the first few minutes of the movie, … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesMexican filmmaker Ernesto Contreras’s fourth feature film with a script by his brother (Carlos Contreras) is a magical mythical tale about the search for a language that is on the brink of extinction, because the last two remaining elderly speakers are bitter enemies who haven’t exchanged a word for the past 50 years. Martin (Fernando Álvarez … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThe horrifying real-life story of the mass-murderer Olga Hepnarova, who was the last woman to be hung in Czechoslovakia in 1975 aged 22 after she deliberately drove a truck through a line of people waiting at a bus-stop, makes for very bleak viewing. Shot in black and white in the bleak depressed town where this … Continue reading