Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews DREAMING WALLS : Inside The Chelsea Hotel

    New York’s infamous W. 23rd St. Chelsea Hotel, ‘a rest stop for rare individuals’, reopened earlier this year, completely refurbished into yet another luxury hotel. About 40 of the rooms are still occupied by its original artist/creative tenants, who are protected, rent-stabilized long-term residents. The controversial stop-start remodeling work took about 11 years … Continue reading

Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews Eddie/Suzy Izzard as Nina Jekyll in a new spin of JEKYLL & HYDE from Hammer Horror

    Doctor Jekyll is the latest offering from classic British goth horror/fantasy film makers Hammer Films. Based on the classic 1886 horror novella by Robert Louis Stevenson, director Joe Stevenson adds classic Hammer elements of camp pulp and twisted humour to the twenty-first century reinvention of the enduring tale of duality and the inter-play … Continue reading

Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews EL HOUB (The Love) a tense queer melodrama within the Dutch-Moroccan community in Holland

  El Houb (The Love) is a tense family melodrama set within the Dutch-Moroccan community in Holland. Successful young businessman Karim (Fahd Larhzaoui) and his Ghanian boyfriend Kofi (Emmanuel Boafo) are in a state of undress at Karim’s smart apartment when Karim’s father Abbas (Slimane Dazi), a postman, delivers a package and sees Karim in … Continue reading

Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews ‘Everything at Once; Kink ” at BFI Flare London’s LGBTQ+ Film Fest

      Everything at Once: Kink is director Alberto Fuguet’s behind-the-scenes look at the work of Spanish photographers Paco Moyano and Manolo Rodriguez and their homo-erotic magazine, Kink. Barcelona-based couple Paco and Manolo have been together for 30 years, and over that time have carved out a special space for their male photography in … Continue reading

Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews EVERYTHING OF VALUE a queer disturbing Dutch drama that lets you choose the ending

  Everything of Value (Alles van Waarde) is director Stanley Kolk’s originally constructed background story to a violent assault on two queer men one night in the shadow of a church in a small town in Holland. Kolk cleverly combines a fake documentary format, interviews and footage of the behind-the-scenes casting to recall this disturbing … Continue reading

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