queertiques
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews HEART OF THE MAN ” life-affirming to see good quality First Nation queer stories being told”
Back to Australia with another coming-of-age queer drama. Heart of the Man explores the life of Queensland-based 18-year-old amateur boxer Chris Wundurra (Parker Little). Under the very watchful eye of the previously successful ex-boxer, ‘The Wonder Man’ now turned coach, father Sammy (David Cook), Chris is religiously training for his first proper fight. The…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews SUNFLOWER a tough coming-of-age, coming-out drama from Australia
Australia’s rough, macho culture is examined from a queer perspective in Sunflower, a tough coming-of-age, coming-out drama set in the suburbs of Melbourne. Director/writer Gabriel Carrubba’s debut introduces us to Leo (Liam Mollica), a handsome, strapping seventeen-year-old high school student. His home is a working-class Greek-Italian household with his truck driver dad (Sal Galofaro), mum…
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Queerguru’s Jose Mayorga reviews ‘The Lost Boys (Le Paradis)’ where to fall in love is against the rules
A sequence of still images of a place that seems to be a mansion into the woods introduces us to lonely Joe (Khalil Gharbia) wearing a red t-shirt. After a while we learn the residence is a juvenile reform center. Joe has Arab roots and shards of memories with his mother walking on a…
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The highly anticipated BACK TO BLACK : the troubled life of soul singer AMY WINEHOUSE is about to be released
The Guardian Newspaper in the Uk called BACK TO BLACK, the highly anticipated biopic about singer Amy Winehouse, Sam Taylor-Johnson’s best film to date. High praise for a filmmaker whose debut feature was the 4-time BAFTA nominated NOWHERE BOY the story of John Lennon. It wasn’t just the awards that this film…
