queertiques
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Racial tensions ignite when a historically Black neighborhood in Palm Springs, California fights to remove a wall of trees that segregate the community.
When we think of Palm Springs in California we have an image of a gay mecca that has developed a strong reputation as an LGBT-friendly destination. and is also a cheaper alternative to San Francisco or New York. Since the 1980s/90s many LGBT people chose the desert city as a base for their…
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Panorama Queer and Transgender Film Festival : Dec 29/31st : Peacock Essex Museum Salem, Mass
Over the next three days the third annual Panorama Film Festival, featuring 19 films by an international array of queer and trans filmmakers under 30 is happening at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem Mass. Created by Queer Videography, the Panorama festival offers a home for the next generation of queer cinema and…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews MONICA an intense, touching drama about end-of-life family reconciliation.
Monica is an intense, touching drama about end-of-life family reconciliation. Monica (Trace Lysette) is a glamorous thirty-something, red convertible car-driving, long auburn-haired woman living in California, having left her rural mid-Western roots behind. She works as a masseuse and an online sex worker. She’s cool and guarded, and lives a fairly singular…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews THE CRIME IS MINE a fab feminist screwball romp by French auteur François Ozon
The Crime is Mine (Mon Crime) is the latest film from prolific queer French director Francois Ozon (Swimming Pool, Summer of 85, 8 Women), one of France’s most modern film directors. Loosely based on the 1934 play Mon Crime, Ozon’s adaptation is an amusing feminist screwball romp, championing a sorority, set in mid-1930’s…
