Saint Etienne : I’ve Been Trying To Tell You

  Alasdair McLellan the photographer, director and longtime i-D collaborator has teamed up with beloved British band Saint Etienne to shoot the cinematic visual for their new record, I’ve Been Trying To Tell You.  Heavenly Recordings, the project is the group’s tenth studio album — released 30 years on from their cult debut Foxbase Alpha — and a body … Continue reading

Saint Maud : a skin clawing creeper

  For the very first time Andrew Hebden one of QUEERGURU’s London team has literally moved into London’s South Bank for the next 2 weeks  to cover the prestigious BFI London Film Festival .  He’ll be reviewing not just all the excellent queer films  screening there but movies he thinks will appeal to the whole … Continue reading

SAINT NARCISSE from queer auteur Bruce La Bruce

  A new film from the Canadian queer auteur Bruce La Bruce is always an event.  We are careful not to include him as part of the wave of new queer cinema that the leading Film scholar Ruby B Rich first recognized. LaBruce is one of the leaders of the queercore movement which is. noted … Continue reading

Sal

James Franco continues his somewhat unhealthy fixation with gay history and culture in his latest turn behind the camera.  His new movie was on Sal Mineo the ‘out’ gay actor who starred along James Dean in ‘Rebel Without a Cause’ and who was nominated twice for Best Supporting Actor Oscars.  However it was hardly a … Continue reading

SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN

There is no surprise as to what this new rom-com is about as the title says it all. Literally. Based on Paul Today’s best selling novel the movie comes across as  Hollywood’s patronizing way of saying that some Arabs are really quite nice people, even in they waste their new found wealth of silly harmless things. … Continue reading

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