queertiques
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Trade : a melodrama about accepting your real identity
The sophomore film from writer/director/producer Trae Briers is a story about how a casual meeting between two very different men turned into a melodrama that not one of them could have predicted. Michael (Austin Miller) is a highly successful corporate lawyer who lives in a luxurious villa on the beach in Malibu with Ashley (Tiffany…
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Song Lang : the compelling story of an unlikely love
Leon Le’s heart-string-pulling story of a love that goes unconsummated is probably the the first LGBTQ movie from Vietnam that we have ever seen. If this is to be the standard bearer of a new source of queer cinema then we cannot wait to see what could follow that would match this. Set in…
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The Skin of the Teeth : Queerguru goes down the rabbit hole so you don’t have to
Styled as “Grindr meets Get Out” this claustrophobic and at times atmospheric contemporary fable might make some think twice before popping the next anonymous pill with the next anonymous guy. Josef King (Pascal Arquimedes) is over for a follow up date to a random hook up he made in a club with Jesse, whose…
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How to Get From Here to There
Sci-Fi is a film genre we rarely see in moveies with LGBTQ story lines, and maybe there is a good reason for that . This low-budget debut feature from Kevin James Thornton who wrote, directed and starred in. plus writing & performing some of the music tracks is one such film which, even with…
