Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesIt’s refreshing to find that filmmakers still have new LGBT coming-out stories that are fresh and throw a different perspective on what is inevitably a difficult rite-of-passage for most gay youth. For her sophomore feature writer/director Eliza Hittman sets her story in Brooklyn where 19 year-old Frankie (Harris Dickinson) is struggling hard to find his own identity, sexual … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesFour gay men of different generations are searching for love, and much more, one cold winter’s night in Philadelphia and this is the story of how their paths cross until the morning breaks. Brian is a 30-something-year-old writer who is at the end of his tether as he has been unable to write a … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesFrancois is one of the unhappiest self-loathing closeted gay men we have ever seen on film. He’s a middle-aged South African who is first seen celebrating his daughter’s wedding in what appears to be a happy family. He is cold and matter of fact with his wife, but that almost seemed like a natural … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesBorn in Barcelona and currently based in Berlin, Noel Alejandro is an independent filmmaker and alternative adult films director whose work explores pornography as a tool to question society’s old standards. His films go beyond the explicit, being set to live in a blend between cinema and erotica. Noel’s force strives for a more sensitive … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesWhen it comes to sexually explicit movies there is often a fine line between art and pornography, and in Berlin Drifters, director Kôichi Imaizumi crosses it back and forth throughout the movie. This tale of two Japanese gay men who are essentially trying to find their own very different ways in Berlin is told through a whole … Continue reading
