Jane Campion’s controversial The Power of the Dog at London Film Festival reviewed by Queerguru’s Andrew Hebden

Let’s address the controversy first. The choice of Benedict Cumberbatch to play the lead gay role in Jane Campion’s deceptively submerged The Power of the Dog led to further angst about whether it is OK to cast straight actors in gay roles. Let’s just say that Queerguru believes in equal opportunity but until we get … Continue reading

JANE EYRE

When a story has already been filmed over 21 times, its reasonable to wonder why there is any need  for yet another version.  Its been made as a Silent Movie back in 1910; Orson Welles took a stab at it in ’43 (just after Citizen Kane); Bollywood gave us its take; its been a TV … Continue reading

Jane Has Always Been One Lucky Bitch

Seeing Nyle DiMarco don his skimpy loincloth and do his very best Tarzan impression doing the samba on Dancing With The Stars this week jolted our memory  that the new Tarzan movie starring Alexander Skarsgard is about to hit the big screens.  It also prompted queerguru to look back at all the other hot actors who have … Continue reading

Jane Lynch hosts star studded LOVE IN ACTION Telethon for the LGBTQ Center in LA

  The fabulously funny Emmy Award Winner Jane Lynch will be the co-host (along with news anchor Cher Calvin) of this year’s star-studded live telethon Love in Action. This year this glamourous annual fundraiser is to help  Los Angeles LGBT Center raise emergency funds for the Center’s vital programs and services impacted by the ongoing pandemic. … Continue reading

Janis : Little Girl Blue

It took filmmaker Amy Berg almost 8 years to bring her very stunning and definitive documentary portrait of the blues singer Janis Joplin to the screen, and it was well worth the wait.  With the full co-operation of the late singers estate, her family and friends, and several of the musicians that she played with, … Continue reading

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