queertiques
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First preview of Netflix TV Series ‘BOOTS’ the story of young bullied closeted kid who joins the Marines (to be bullied again)
Its taken almost 10 years for Greg Cope White’s best-selling memoir The Pink Marine to be adapted into a Netflix series, but judging by the first trailer that has been released, it will be well worth the wait. Its a story—full of hilarity and heartbreak—of how a teenage boy who struggles with self-acceptance &…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews Boy George and Culture Club, a step back in time to the crazy 1980s. Another great documentary by film-maker Alison Elwood.
The UK excelled in glossy pop music in the 1980s, and undoubtedly one of our most successful exports was Culture Club, the legendary four-piece London band fronted by the attention-grabbing singer Boy George (George O’Dowd). A new documentary by esteemed director Allison Elwood (check out her brilliant doc on The Go-Go’s), Boy George and Culture…
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Queerguru’s Jose Mayorgas reviews ‘ I ONLY REST IN THE STORM’ a new queer drama by Pedro Pinho,
Solidarity is easy when structurally nothing is missing In this 3.34 hour film we follow a white man from Europe in Western Africa. Sergio (Sergio Coragem) drives through the desert from Portugal to Guinea and lands, literally, into the different social segments that inhabit the country and Bissau´s social diversity. Sandstorms are present in the first part…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews the award-winning Block Pass, a dramatic coming-of age tale set in semi-rural France.
Handsome (inside and out) nineteen-year-old best friends Willy (Sayyid El Alami) and Jojo (Amaury Foucher) spend all their time together. The childhood friends live in semi-rural western France near Angers. There they immerse themselves in the colourful local motocross scene, and along with their rowdy bunch of friends, also get up to all the usual…
