queertiques
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What’s Between Us aka Unter Der Haut
Alice and Frank have been married for 18 years and are moving with their three children (and Taski their pet rabbit) to a new apartment in the Swiss countryside. From the outside they seem like the perfect nuclear family but as they arrange their furniture and settle into their new home, Alice notices that her…
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Corpus Christi : Playing With Redemption
‘It makes you realise how thin the scab over homophobia really is when it doesn’t take much to pick through it’ so said Award-Winning gay playwright Terrence McNally when religious fanatics scared the Manhattan Theater Club into cancelling the run of his play. The year was 1998 and the play was ‘Corpus Christi’ which depicted Jesus…
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Me, Myself & Mum
Guillaume has to ‘come out’ to his entire family but that’s no easy task in this quirky French comedy which has a neat twist on this perennial situation. His problem is that they all pronounced that he was ‘gay’ from birth and have treated him as an effeminate camp boy ever since. The trouble is…
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Queerguru reviews CITIZENFOUR the true controversial story of Edward Snowden
After you have watched Laura Poitras’s powerful documentary on the NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden you will never want to use your bank debit card, or cellphone or even turn your computer on ever again. Whilst it’s not always easy to totally understand the intricate technical details of what Snowden reveals, it is however impossible not…
