queertiques
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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…
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Queerguru checks out “THOSE SACRED VOWS ” a new queer comedy/drama TV series from Ireland
Queer Irish filmmaker John Butler first came on our radar with his enchanting coming-of-age movie HANDSOME DEVIL about two very likable 16-year-old boys in an Irish Boarding School. It seemed to sidestep some of the grittier aspects of homophobia to ensure that the end result is an engaging feel-good movie that the LGBT community made…
