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Queerguru’s Peter Herbert reviews the highly anticipated ELSINORE that exceeds all expectations
The 70th London Film Festival opened on 7/10/26 with the gala premiere of Elsinore, a sensitive film starring actor Andrew Scott. The film tells a little-known story about the final years of Scottish actor Ian Charleson as he confronted his mortality during a production of Shakespeare’s Hamlet at the National Theatre. The film is an engaging triumph for…
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Queerguru’s PETER HERBERT reviews THE 2026 ALTERNATIVE MISS WORLD competition in London’s Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre
As if to bring an end to one of London’s longest heatwaves, the good earth at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre was invigorated by much-needed rain. This was also a forceful addition to Gaia the great mother of life, as the theme of the latest instalment of The Alternative Miss World on Sunday 13 Sept…
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Queerguru’s Peter Herbert reveiws SCORCH MARKS a new queer sci-fi / horror film screening on DEKKOO
The most interesting way to view Brendan Haley’s gay film Scorch Marks is as a reimagining of End Game, the celebrated tragi-comic absurdist one-act play written by Irish playwright Samuel Beckett in 1957, rather than through traditional tropes of mainstream sci-fi horror. The film opens with a house on a hilltop overlooking a coastal bay…
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Queerguru’s Peter Herbert revisits THE BLACK CAP: A LEGENDARY LGBT PUB IN CAMDEN TOWN LONDON
Doff your black cap and salute one of our great pubs that has bucked a current worldwide trend for accelerated closures of LGBT venues. London’s famous The Black Cap has returned after a shock closure in 2015 when the pub, which spawned over 1,000 nights of “Palladium-style drag acts,” closed overnight. During these eleven years,…
