queertiques
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Search Engines
With an impressive stellar ensemble as a cast, and the very topical premise of everyone’s obsession with being glued to their cellphones, and helmed by talented writer/director Russell Brown, Search Engines had all the hallmarks of being a very successful comedy. On paper at least. Set in California as an assorted group of family and friends…
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Lost In White City
Kyle (Thomas Dekker) and Eva (Haley Bennett) are two slightly pretentious American students who are traveling to Tel Aviv for the summer in the hope that it may inspire them in their art. More so their relationship is rapidly disintegrating and even though Kyle at least thinks he wants to salvage it, a breakup up looks…
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Real Boy
Any documentary that makes a contribution to the continuing transgender dialogue is important, but when it is as poignant and compelling as ‘Real Boy’, then it can play a significant role in nurturing more understanding and acceptance both within the community and society at large. Queer filmmaker Shaleece Haas subject is a disarmingly charming young teenage musician…
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Inside The Chinese Closet
It would seem that when LGBT men and women come out of the closets as gay to their family in China today, the parents then rush into the closets themselves. According to this new documentary from Italian filmmaker Sophia Luvarà even liberated Chinese parents who ‘accept’ their children’s sexuality have an immediate concern in that the news…
