queertiques
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Queerguru’s Jose Mayorgas reviews “THE PLAGUE ” the award-winning debut from Charlie Poliger
This is the debut feature film of writer-director Charlie Polinger, with the perfect casting of Rebecca Dealy, and the collaboration of cinematographer Steven Breckon, sound designer Damien Volpe and composer Johan Lenox, which makes this feature film on boyhood at a water polo camp in the Summer of 2003 an enthralling experience to watch. 12-13…
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NETFLIX’s shi–y Christmas Gift : cancelling the fab queer series BOOTS
It’s probably just a coincidence (!) but the very first decision/statement from Netflix that affects the queer community since the much heralded mammoth takeover/merge, it is very negative. Depressingly so. Even though the well-reviewed Boots (90% on Rotten Tomatoes from both critics and viewers) delivered respectable ratings and made noise in popular culture, IT IS…
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First glimpse of ‘It’s A Sin’ Russell Davies new queer TV Show TIP TOE
As Queerguru divulged last week (see here) Russell T Davies (Queer as Folk, Its A Sin) has another brand new queer TV series for the UK’s Channel 4 that is just wrapping up its filming. Davies is back again in his hometown the Gay Village of Manchester, where Tip Toe follows the adversarial relationship between…
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Queerguru reviews LIGHT UP : a new doc on 5 people on the spectrum of cisgender queer men and transgender women in Atlanta
Ryan Ashley Lowery’s doc LIGHT UP is such a refreshing eye opener, even for this ‘older’ white cisgender gay male. It tells the stories of five people, those on the spectrum of cisgender queer men and transgender women in Atlanta, which so beautifully entertains but also educates us on life once on the downlow, and…
