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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…
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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)…
