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Queerguru’s Jose Mayorgas reviews ‘Charlie Is Not A Boy’ …is a tale untold.
The son of a disreputable butcher and a catatonic mother who neglects him, Charlie reminds me of a white bird. He has a grandmother who nourishes him with fantasy and love; they both share a space that is a sacred nest. Set within an allegorical America, grotesque relations and situations allow the narrative to flow, revealing…
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Queerguru’s Robert Malcolm’s “Notes on Jacob Elordi and “Wuthering Heights”
Like Marlon Brando in A Streetcar Named Desire, Jacob Elordi introduces an erotic, toxic masculinity into the feminine fantasy world of Emerald Fennell’s melodramatic “Wuthering Heights.” Amidst the old Hollywood technicolour campery of Fennell’s adolescent fever dream, his Heathcliff is broody and serious, stern and monochromatic. It’s as if he is playing Hamlet to Margot…
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Queerguru’s Robert Malcolm reviews “Young, Black, and Gifted: Diversity at the Paris Opera”
Classical ballet is rooted in the culture of the past and still carries with it the prejudices of old white European colonialism. Only in recent years have Black dancers begun to gain access to this exclusive world. Even now, traditionalists cling to an all-white cast, arguing for supposed aesthetic purity, homogeneity, and pointing to the technical…
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QUEERGURU reviews SURFACING the debut feature film by Canadian actor CHRISTIAN SMITH
In his native Canada, actor, writer, sketch Comedian and Improviser CHRISTIAN SMITH is known as the co-Creator of the CBC Digital Comedy, Soul Decision Comedy and one half of YouTube darlings Christian & Nat, so its odd to us that for his feature film directing debut, he would choose SURFACING. It’s a story about dysfunctional families and…
