queertiques
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Abu : Father
In 2012 when his father passed newbie filmmaker Arshad Khan was working on putting together his first fiction feature, but having gone through a wealth of archival home videos in preparing for the memorial service, Khan slowly came to realize that he wanted, and needed instead to tell his own story of growing up gay…
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Paths
German filmmaker Chris Miera’s first feature film Paths that he produced, directed, co-wr0te and was even the director of photography, is a sublimely lyrical understated drama that is such a refreshing look at the way a relationship can unfold despite the fact that the love is not lost, but just misplaced. Economically shot in…
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Alaska is a Drag
In her enchanting feature debut writer/director Shaz Bennett spares no punches in showing how brutal and isolated Alaska can be especially if you are anything different than the norm. Leo (newcomer Martin L. Washington Jr.) is just that and more. He may work gutting fish in a Cannery by day, but at night this black gay…
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Freak Show
Sometimes even casting a 3 time Golden Globe Winner (and two-time Oscar nominee) cannot save a movie from being a disappointing convoluted mess like Freak Show is. Bette Midler sails through her cameo performance as the on/off alcoholic mother (Muv) of Billy Bloom ( a remarkably good Alex Lawther) who is the protagonist in this…
