Queerguru’s Jose Mayorga reviews MUTT : ‘everything informs everything else’

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  The compelling drama depicts a 24-hour period in the life of Fernanda / Feña (Lío Mehiel), a recently transitioned trans man that awaits for his father to come from Chile into town (NYC), enjoys the company of a younger sister who ran away from school bringing her own concerns and has encounters with ex-boyfriend … Continue reading



Queerguru’s Jose Mayorga reviews MYSTERIOUS WAYS a rare queer NZ/Samoan love story

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  DO NOT MAKE UGLY SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL Reverend Petter Simmons  is  an Anglican Vicar advocating for change  at St. John´s Church in a small town in New Zealand . He is a widower, has a teenage daughter but is now in love with Samoan Jason, who served 8 years in prison and is the actual … Continue reading



Queerguru’s José Mayorga reviews NANA’s BOYS : 24 troubled hours in the life of a gay couple

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  Amari (David J, Cork)  and Q (Jared Wayne Gladly) are a couple of black gay men in their 3Os living in New York City.  The action takes place from one day to the other. It is Amari´s 30th birthday,  but he wakes up feeling old and not in the mood for a celebration. Q … Continue reading



Queerguru’s José Mayorga reviews NOT KNOWING a queer Turkish drama now streaming online

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    Writer and director Leyla Yilmaz in her second film Not Knowing  (“Bilmemek”) gives a glance of Turkish society in general, and in particular, the portrait of a family of three, living in pre-pandemic Istambul.  Sinan (Yurdaer Okur),  the father, works with containers at the port for a big sea transportation corporation that has … Continue reading



Queerguru’s José Mayorga reviews THE FIRST FALLEN  a Brazilian drama about the first wave of AIDS crisis in the early 1980s

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  The story takes us to Vitoria, Espírito Santo  a state in southeast Brazil, in one year period time beginning on December 31st, 1982. We are introduced to biologist Suzano (Johnny Massaro), his sister nurse Maura (Clara Choreaux), nephew Muriel (Alex Bonini), and his circle of friends.  Suzano is back from France where his “rich … Continue reading



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