Queerguru reviews ISAAC a queer Spanish melodrama

  Spanish filmmaking duo  David Matamoros and Ángeles Hernández swap their usual roles of producers to become the co-directors and writers of his intriguing queer melodrama. Adapted from a very successful stage play, it is the story of two very different married couples who are quite ruthless in pursuing their own desires. Two close childhood … Continue reading

queerguru reviews Jackie

It’s quite extraordinary that acclaimed Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larraín known mainly for his generally aggressive dramas interspersed with violence about his own country,  should choose such a quintessential American story as Jackie for his first English speaking movie.  The fact that he succeeds so well with his version of the accounts in the week that … Continue reading

Queerguru reviews Jeanie Finlay’s YOUR FAT FRIEND a compelling doc that will challenge so many long-held misapprehesions

  Queerguru first came across Brit filmmaker Jeanie Finlay’ in 2015 when we were bowled over by her documentary Seashorse. Her sympatico telling of the story of Freddy McConnell, a determined Brit trans man who wanted to give birth was a remarkable testament of faith by McConnell in allowing the cameras to film every part … Continue reading

Queerguru reviews Jessica Chastain’s Oscar worthy performance in THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE

  We have to confess that as Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato’s exhilarating  2000 film, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, is one of our favorite queer documentaries of all time we approached the new film with the same title with such trepidation.  Thankfully it turned out to be groundless as although this feature drama written … Continue reading

queerguru reviews Kedi

queerguru reviews Turkish filmmaker Ceyda Torun  wonderful new documentary  on the street cats of Istanbul. What had originally enticed Torun, a native of the city, was that for the largely Muslim population, the uniqueness of how street cats are treated is in fact not too dissimilar to how cows are honored in India. Certainly what … Continue reading

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