SQIFF : Scotland's new Queer Film Festival

The first edition of the ambitious groundbreaking new Scottish Queer International Film Festival kicks off on September 24th in Glasgow and queerguru welcomes Scotland’s first ever inclusive celebration of queer cinema. For four days in different venues around our favorite Scottish city SQIFF is programming a mix of international feature films with  a dedicated strand … Continue reading

SQUARE GROUPER : The tale of large scale Cannabis smuggling in Florida

If I had caught sight of the ‘Cocaine Cowboys’ movie before I moved to Miami, I don’t think that I would have ever dared settle here.  Billy Corbin’s 2006 Documentary told the true story of the local drug wars in the 1980’s when ruthless Columbian cocaine barons invaded Miami and bought a level of violence … Continue reading

Sid & Nancy : 30 Years On

To mark the 30th anniversary of Alex Cox cult movie ‘SID & NANCY’  Studio Canal are releasing a newly restored version. This is the biopic of Sid Vicious the bassist of the seminal punk band The Sex Pistols who ended up being arrested for the murder of his girlfriend Nancy Spungen. Vicious was never convicted however as his … Continue reading

St Vincent

Vincent, with no visible regular means of support and with not a single friend in the world other than Felix his rather mangy Persian cat, is a cantankerous old drunk.  When Maggie a newly single mother and Oliver her 12 year old son move in to the house next door, things get off to bad start … Continue reading

Staccato : a 19th Century tale of Upstairs/Downstairs gay love

  Set in the 1800’s this short film is an Upstairs/Downstairs  tale where the aristocratic young master of the House Thomas Croydon (Craig Granger) falls for Sean (Kevin O’Malley) one of his hunky gardeners.  In a story that is equally passionate and histrionic, it shows a side of life we will  never see in Downton Abbey Directed … Continue reading

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