queertiques
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Sebastian
For his feature film debut which he wrote, directed and starred in, Canadian filmmaker James Fanizza chose a feel-good romance which may not exactly be Shakespeare (!) but however it is the stuff that hopelessly romantic gay men just love. Set in his native Toronto, Fanizza plays Alex a frustrated artist who is making…
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The Revival
The Revival is a slightly old-fashioned melodrama of the well trodden tale of a young conservative Southern Baptist Pastor facing the struggle of having to choose between his wife and God on one side, and the handsome young drifter that he has fallen for. Adapted from Samuel Brett William’s stage play from 2010, what…
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Just Gender
Just Gender from writer/director George Zuber must easily qualify as the most successful documentary on explaining the whole transgender spectrum in a language that perfectly articulates the phenomena, and in such a manner that enlightens and educates us all. The first surprising discovery is the very fact that Zuber made this in 2013 and although…
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Boys on Film 17 : Love Is A Drug
Peccadillo Pictures a leading distributor of LGBT movies in the UK have just issued no 17 in their excellent series of Boys on Film collections of short movies. It is something that they really excel at, and in queerguru’s eyes these are by far the best anthologies of queer shorts that we have seen for…
