queertiques
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The Family Tree : a Panamanian queer melodrama
Panamanian filmmaker Jorge Ameer has produced three compilations of short queer movies under the title Straight Men and the Men Who Love them, a theme he comes back too in this new soap melodrama The Family Tree. It’s the story of Victor Gardel (Keith Roenke) a lonely single workaholic who spends his life rescuing…
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Seeing Is Believing : New Queer Visions
If being in isolation is becoming, lets us politely say, a bit predictable then it is time to have a few slices of the sideways looks at the world offered in this latest series of shorts. It does not contain the kind of surprises that will sit you bolt up from your coronavirus sofa slouch.…
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Say Yes : for a different life after death
Writer/director Stewart Wade’s (Coffee Date) story of a bisexual triangle makes for an entertaining view even though it does expect us to stretch our imagination a little too far at times. Beau (Patrick Zeller) and Lily (Leah McKendrick) seem the perfect picture-book young married couple. That is until one day Beau comes home from…
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Lazy Susan: Sean Hayes plays sad-sack Susan whose life has been stagnant for years
Lazy Susan is a oddball undie comedy that would probably never have made it onto our screens if it hadn’t been for the presence of Sean Hayes in the title role. Hayes, who also co-wrote the script, is riding high with the very successful revival of Will and Grace and brings to this lightweight…
