queertiques
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Grimsey
When Bruno (Richard García) broke up from Norberto (Eugenio Sanz ) he ran away from the Madrid home they shared together and ended up in Iceland. Now after a lengthy silence from Bruno, his worried ex-lover turns up unexpectedly in Reykjavik to check up on him, only to discover that he has completely disappeared off-the-grid. He reports…
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The Happy Prince: Rupert Everett’s glorious account of Oscar Wilde’s last years
Rupert Everett is certainly no stranger in his career to Oscar Wilde having been in two film adaptations of his plays, An Ideal Husband & The Importance of Being Earnest and more recently he was in the revival of David Hare’s play The Judas Kiss. So who better to write, direct and star in a…
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When The Beat Drops
When leading choreographer Jamal Sims came across the underground dance movement known as ‘bucking’, he was so taken with it that he decided that this would be the subject of his documentary directing debut. The result is a wonderfully energetic and a rather joyful movie that centers of a group of dancers, and one in particular who is known as…
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Riot
This intriguing made-for-TV Australian drama directed by Jeffrey Walker is based on the real story of how Sydney’s famous LGBT Mardi Gras came into being. This tale of how a very marginalized community struggled to win acceptance and basic equal rights may be well known to its home audience but is probably news to the rest…
