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The Poodle Trainer
queerguru first fell in love with this 7 minute short film at Sundance Film Festival four years ago, and we have never forgotten it for one moment since. It is the delightful story of Irina Markova who has devoted her entire life to her passion of training her poodles to perform in Russian circuses. …
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Toxic Avenger
The Toxic Avenger is a new musical by Joe DiPietro and David Bryan (founding member of Bon Jovi) and is based on a cult film of the same name by Lloyd Kaufman and it seems from tonight’s audience it has a major cult following of its own. The citizens of Tromaville, New Jersey are…
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Ginger Beer
If you don’t know English cockney rhyming slang you may not know that what the title of this play really means, although the picture may give you a big clue. It’s the story of twenty-something Sammy as he tries to navigate the gay male scene. It can all be tough going, between gay male saunas,…
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Just Dance : Tempest
Paris-based filmmaker Julien Pujol made this very striking wee film with Germain Louvet one of the stars of the Paris Opera Ballet. With its Wagnerian score the creative director Delphine Roche called it ‘Tempest’ as she said the storm is a powerful motif, one that is repeatedly present in the history of painting, literature and…
