Month: January 2017

  • Alternative Television to avoid watching Trump

    Alternative Television to avoid watching Trump

    If you are looking for something good and positive to watch on television on January 20th to avoid ‘you-know-what’ then you really could no better to watch the Netflix series I Am The Ambassador to remind you at least how remarkable our Diplomatic service is overseas.  In an unprecedented move the PEOTUS has decreed that…

  • queerguru reviews 20th Century Women

    queerguru reviews 20th Century Women

    Writer/director Mike Mills is revisiting his own family history again as the source for his latest movie.  It served him well last time when in ‘Beginners’ he told the story of his father who came out as gay when he was 75 years old, garnering an Oscar for Christopher Plummer. This time around Mills’s focus…

  • London Cinema : the lowest to the tallest

    London Cinema : the lowest to the tallest

    The fifth annual Vault Festival in its cavernous underground premises at Waterloo is about to kick off, and although it is not primarily an LGBT event, it’s crammed packed program has a lot of queer content that it is now a must-see on our calendar. From hard-hitting drama to outrageous comedy, from dance to late-night…

  • queerguru goes to Miami’s Gay8 Festival

    queerguru goes to Miami’s Gay8 Festival

    Last Sunday saw the 2nd Annual Gay8 Festival which is a free Latino LGBT art, music and food street festival in the heart of Miami’s historic Little Havana district.  The city has a well-deserved long-held reputation for being a multi-cultural and diverse community with a significant LGBT population which has always played an important role in…

  • Four Days in France aka Jours De France

    Four Days in France aka Jours De France

    French writer/director Jérôme Reybaud’s feature debut that premiered at the Venice Film Festival during their Critics Week is an intriguing and extremely compelling love affair that stars France’s rather glorious countryside in this very unusual road movie.  It is the story of two lovers, the younger one Pierre Thomas (a very convincing Pascal Cervo) who suddenly ups…