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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…
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Queerguru’s David Allen’s 5 Star review of ‘TEST’ screening at Provincetown Film Festival + SF’s Frameline
Few movies set the scene with such succinct clarity as ‘Test’ from writer (and lead) Brock Yurich and director Sam McConnell. Here, we watch as a handsome and very muscled man, wearing nothing but a cock sock, is rollered in fake tan by an older woman while singing a hymn and giggling. Eddie (Brock Yurich)…
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Miss You , Love You starring Allison Janney and Andrew Randells
If only TV reflected life and vice versa, then we would opt for replacing reality with The Diplomat, if for no better reason, the President of the US is none other than Allison Janney. And she had good training for the role, picking up all those Primetime Awards for starring in The West Wing. She’s…
