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Queerguru reviews HAPPY CAMPERS a fascinating documentary about the death throes of a shabby trailer park
Amy Nicholson‘s rather compelling new fly-on-the -wall documentary is about a particular piece of American life in its death throes. It’s all about a very shabby rundown trailer park In Chincoteague, Virginia and the lives of its blue-collared residents that have lived there each summer for several decades.. Now this is to be their…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews Eddie/Suzy Izzard as Nina Jekyll in a new spin of JEKYLL & HYDE from Hammer Horror
Doctor Jekyll is the latest offering from classic British goth horror/fantasy film makers Hammer Films. Based on the classic 1886 horror novella by Robert Louis Stevenson, director Joe Stevenson adds classic Hammer elements of camp pulp and twisted humour to the twenty-first century reinvention of the enduring tale of duality and the inter-play…
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Five fathers of trans children join Dennis Shepard (Matthew Shepard’s father) and talk about their unconditional love for their children in this tough political climate
This 10 minute Emmy Award Winning documentary THE DADS should be compulsory viewing for EVERYONE. This NETFLIX short film from director Luchina Fisher is about Matthew Shepard’s father Dennis going in a fishing trip with five fathers of trans children. The last time Dennis went fishing with his son was in 1998, and a…
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Criterion Channel’s POP SHAKESPEARE SERIES: the best reason to stay home tonight
Planning to stay home tonight and there is nothing tempting to watch on TV then Queerguru so recommends Criterion Channel’s online fab Pop Shakespeare collection. After all, every era gets its own Shakespeare, from the genius championed by the Romantics to the Bard who inspired Orson Welles and Laurence Olivier—and the age of…
