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QUEERGURU’s Top Ten Picks of MUST SEE MOVIES @ CHICAGO REELING LGBTQ+ Film Fest
Reeling: Chicago’s LGBTQ+ International Film Festival is the second longest-running film festival of its kind, and has always been one of Queerguru’s favorites. In this groundbreaking 41st Edition, the programmers have really gone that extra mile with one of its most diverse and adventurous schedules that seem to run the whole queer spectrum. Its…
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Queerguru’s Jose Mayorga reviews The Hottest Summer (L’ Estate piu Calda)
A fiction set in Sicily in a Roman Catholic context. During record-breaking hot summer days, charismatic and handsome soon-to-be-priest deacon Don Nicola (Gianmarco Saurino) visits the small villa and catches the eye and interest of volunteers at the church camp and close friends Valentina (Alice Angelica) and Lucia (Nicole Damiani). Don Nicola´s allure is like…
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Queerguru’s Andrew Hebden reviews REBECCA the musical, a tale of cheating, blackmail, murder and obsession.
REBECCA ✯✯✯ CHARING CROSS THEATRE, LONDON Written in 1938 the gothic novel Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier was quickly turned into a film. And that film, directed by Alfred Hitchcock went on to become Best Picture at the Oscars. The source material has enormous potential, but it was a huge challenge that Michael…
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Private Lives, Drama, Baby. by Paul Burston
(Reprinted by kind permission of the author Paul Burston) I don’t know how this happened, but I appear to have reached the ripe old age of 58 without having seen a production of Noël Coward’s Private Lives or witnessed the great Patricia Hodge live on stage. Yesterday I put both of these grave injustices…
