queertiques
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Queerguru’s Andrew Hebden reviews COP SECRET an action-packed queer Icelandic movie @BFI Flare
It is obvious that the Icelandic director (Hannes Halldórsson) and the two main stars (Egill Einarsson, Auðunn Blöndal) who also were co-writers, are huge fans of the action movie genre. The biggest source of fun in the satire Cop Secret is to play action movie Bingo as all of the tropes of Hollywood’s biggest…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews the BEST SHORT FILMS at @BFI Flare 2022
London’s BFI Flare 2022 queer film festival has an excellent program of international short films. Here are a few of my favorites from this year’s selection – covering Palestine, Egypt, South Korea, Libya, Pakistan, Lebanon, and India. The fact that queer film-making is spreading so globally is very encouraging. Borekas is…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews Allan Brocka’s BOY CULTURE 2021 @BFI Flare
Allan Brocka’s popular comedy series Boy Culture season 1 premiered at BFI Flare in 2006 where we followed the life of escort X (Derek Magyar) and his beautiful boyfriend Andrew (Darryl Stephens of Noah’s Arc). Fast forward 15 years to series two and the six-part sequel finds popular escort X adapting to a very…
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Queerguru’s José Mayorga reviews “100 Years of Men in Love: the Accidental Collection “
The Nini -Treadwell collection is a love letter to the world. The approx. 60 min documentary shows a selection of vintage photographs of the accidental collection that are included in the coffee table book published by 5 Continents Editions, Milan, 2019. The book has been properly reviewed by Queerguru here. The collection of photographs…
