Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesDiego Ruiz has probably the largest soulful looking eyes I have seen on the screen for a long time. In the opening scene of the movie that he directed/wrote and starred in, he is all of a twitch as he is trying to persuade his neighbor, an agoraphobic Therapist, to write him a prescription for … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesPalestinian writer-director Maysaloun Hamoud’s extremely delightful debut movie about three Arab-Israeli single women living together in Tel Aviv has deservedly won her copious awards around the world. The story about a conservative Muslim woman who moves in with a couple of partying flatmates features drugs, alcohol and homosexuality all of which are taboo in that culture … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesLGBT movies from Korea are still very much a rarity and most of them are based on the fact that although homosexuality is legal in the country, culturally it is still not accepted by most of the country. In fact, the first ever Korean LGBT rights organization Beyond The Rainbow was officially recognized last year after … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThis is the rather gritty story of a hip very young gay couple in Chicago’s ‘Boystown’ coming to terms with how tough one’s first love can be. Kurt is a small time drug dealer who supplies pot to his peers, whilst Paul his boyfriend of two years has a dead-end job in a local grocery … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThis is a filmed adaptation of celebrated British playwright David Storey’s stage play that opened in London Royal Court Theatre in 1969. Storey was a leading exponent of ‘kitchen sink drama’ which in the late 1960’s atypically was a style of social realism which often depicted the domestic situations of working-class Britons living in terraced … Continue reading