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queerguru reviews La La Land
The wonderful astonishing opening sequence of a full scale choreographed musical number on a flyover in the middle of an L.A. traffic jam sets the pace for what is clearly one of the most exhilarating movie musicals for years. La La Land is only the third film helmed by 31 year old Damien Chazelle (he…
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queerguru reviews 20th Century Women
Writer/director Mike Mills is revisiting his own family history again as the source for his latest movie. It served him well last time when in ‘Beginners’ he told the story of his father who came out as gay when he was 75 years old, garnering an Oscar for Christopher Plummer. This time around Mills’s focus…
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queerguru reviews Lion
queerguru reviews Lion a highly emotional true life story about a 5 year poor Indian boy who is accidentally separated from his family, is shipped overseas, but still never forgets his family. Reviewed for P.T.V. & Waters Edge Cinema, Provincetown
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queerguru reviews Jackie
It’s quite extraordinary that acclaimed Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larraín known mainly for his generally aggressive dramas interspersed with violence about his own country, should choose such a quintessential American story as Jackie for his first English speaking movie. The fact that he succeeds so well with his version of the accounts in the week that…
