queertiques

  • Other People

    Other People

    Trying to make light of cancer in movies is never easy and attempts at doing so do not usually make for good box office as last year’s Sundance big hit Me, Earl & the Dying Girl sadly found  out when it failed to find an audience.  This new movie, which is the directorial debut of writer Chris Kelly, and…

  • Finding Phong

    Finding Phong

    This documentary is the story of Phong a 20-something-year-old Vietnamese transwoman as she goes about realigning her body to finally becoming the woman she has always rightly felt she was.  The youngest of six siblings, Phong could never identify the source of her deep childhood depression until she left her small village home to go to…

  • Drag Becomes Him

    Drag Becomes Him

    Jerick Hoffer has a big set of balls.  Not that you will ever catch even a glimpse of them as he spends so much of his time as his alter ego the drag superstar Jinkx Monsoon who clearly keeps them tucked away.  Hoffer however earned his when some years back he helped out his friend Alex Berry who needed…

  • That’s Not Us

    That’s Not Us

    The Summer is over and before Fall can kick in three 20-something-year-old couples who are good friends leave the NY for a weekend break together in a borrowed house on a pretty island somewhere.  As soon as they arrive and make claims to their bedrooms for their short  vacation the kvetching starts. Rather than focus on…