Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThere is something immensely satisfying about being able to binge watch a complete web series even when you realize that with each episode a generous half an hour it’s the equivalent time of an epic movie. However having being so entranced with the first season of Jack Tracy’s HISTORY (see our review here) and completely … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesHaving just sat through all six episodes of Jack Tracy’s new webseries History I’m not sure that I’d like to have been his ex-boyfriend. It’s not that the 30-plus-year-old NY actor is not handsome, or cannot turn on the charm, it’s just that he has obviously mined his own dating past in such minute detail … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesChoosing exactly who to be the main subjects in a documentary that will take over four years to shoot is always a major gamble, but one that played off big-time for Gail Freedman the director and producer of Hot To Trot a totally enchanting look at the world of competitive same-sex ballroom dancing. Freedman selected … 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