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Queerguru’s Janet Prolman reviews “Bang My Box: The Robin Byrd Show,” @Provincetown International Film Festival
I would not have seen “Bang My Box: The Robin Byrd Show,” at the Provincetown International Film Festival had a gay male filmmaker friend not urged me to do so. I owe him a debt of gratitude, as I urge you to do the same when it screens on HBO Max on June 30. I…
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Queerguru’s Jose Mayorgas reviews ‘FLESH AND FUEL (Du fioul dans les artéres)’ @ Cannes Festival Critics Week
A study on loneliness and longing the directorial debut of Pierre Le Gall Etienne (Alexis Manenti) is a French container truck driver, he moves through Europe in daily long shifts, his job is a demanding one; the truck is his shelter, too. Sometimes, he even cleans himself on board. By night, he stops at parking…
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Queerguru’s Jose Mayorgas reviews 4K restores THE DEVIL QUEEN Brazilian film noir from 1974 by Antonio Carlos Fontoura.
Through kitschy opening credits, we are introduced to a House of Tolerance where matron Violeta (Yara Cortes) tells her girls to go out because Queen’s visitors are coming. ‘Queen’ is a homosexual drug dealer lord crime named Rainha Diaba (Milton Gonçalves), and the visitors are her associates, a diverse gang of armed men under…
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‘Queerguru’s David Allen reviews ‘The Last Guest of the Holloway Motel’ a true story about one of the last bastions of homophobia
On the balcony of the Holloway Motel on the iconic Route 66 in West Hollywood, a man would sit with a laptop in front of him, drinking wine. The motel hadn’t been in use for a while and was in the process of changing hands to become interim housing for the homeless. Filmmaker Ramiel Petros…
