Carlotta

When Richard Bryon’s mother turns up to take him home with her and her new husband to their house in Balmain a working class suburb of Sydney Australia she puts on her act of being the world’s best parent even though she had abandoned him with his ‘Aunt Hazel’ for the past 10 years. John, … Continue reading

Carmen Maria Machado’s ‘In The Dream House’ : reviewed by Golnoosh Nour: the latest addition to the Queerguru Team

IN THE NIGHTMARE HOUSE IN THE DREAM HOUSE is a mind-blowingly original book; not just because of its dreamy prose that weaves gothic aesthetics with hyperrealism, but also the incredibly sensitive subject matter – domestic abuse within a lesbian relationship. Sensitive for all the nuanced and well-argued reasons mentioned in the book, including the fear … Continue reading

Carnage

Roman Polanski has co-adapted Yasmin Reza’s Tony Award Winning play ‘God of Carnage’ into a movie and despite the performances and Reza’s wonderful words it does still feel very much like a play that just happens to have been filmed.   All the action takes place in a very comfortable high-rise apartment in Brooklyn on … Continue reading

Carol

For his 6th feature film  queer filmmaker Todd Haynes returns to the 1950’s and re-visits the theme of repressed sexuality that he captured so brilliantly in his Oscar-nominated “Far From Heaven” in 2002.  Last time he worked from his own script, but this time around British/American playwright Phyllis Nagy has adapted Patricia Highsmith’s controversial novel … Continue reading

Carol : all the glances …..

queerguru is a tad skeptical about a new list of the 30 Best LGBT Movies of all time that BFI Flare released yesterday to mark their own 30th Anniversary as they placed Todd Haynes’s Carol as Number 1.  Now as anyone who reads this Blog regularly will know that queerguru has been shouting about this … Continue reading

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