queertiques
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Of all the queer love stories released this Christmas season, Netflix’s SMILEY stands heads and shoulders above the rest
Of all the queer love stories released this Christmas season, Netflix’s SMILEY stands heads and shoulders above the rest. After watching the sanitized don’t-frighten-the-children (or the straight) offerings from both Hallmark and Lifetime TV, it’s so refreshing to see something so authentically queer. However, its creator Guillem Clua who adapted the 8-part series from…
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The first look at Barbie overdosing on pink and all grown up ……
Writer/director Greta Gerwig received two Academy Award nominations for Little Women but now her latest film is on the most famous ‘little’ women of all time: Barbie. It’s an intriguing prospect especially when you also know that her writing partner (and also lifetime partner) is Noah Baumbach who picked up an Academy Award for…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews BALABAN a rare queer drama from Kazakhstan
Balaban is the touching story of the coming-of-age relationship between two teenage HIV-positive girls in Kazakhstan and their journey toward freedom and love. Based on real-life events, writer and director Aysulu Onaran highlights the case of 160 children who were infected with HIV during blood transfusions in Kazakhstan in 2006 when untested blood was…
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Movie preview : OF AN AGE: possibly the best queer romance of 2023
When Goran Stolevski’s sophomore feature film OF AN AGE premiered at Melbourne’s Queer Film Fest this summer, it received a rapturous reception. The Guardian Newspaper was quick to declare this Australian film a modern queer classic. Now come next Valentine’s Day we will be able to see for ourselves when Focus Features releases the…
