Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesLeon Le’s heart-string-pulling story of a love that goes unconsummated is probably the the first LGBTQ movie from Vietnam that we have ever seen. If this is to be the standard bearer of a new source of queer cinema then we cannot wait to see what could follow that would match this. Set in … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesFollowing hot on the heels of BPM Beats Per Minute the powerful seminal French Aids movie that swept up every major César Award and at Cannes too last year, comes a new film from queer French auteur Christophe Honoré that tells a heartbreaking story from that same period. His movie is set in 1993 before the introduction … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThe larger-than-life story of Casablanca Records, the most successful independent record company of all time, and its creator Neil Bogart is coming to the big screen in the new motion picture, Spinning Gold, which premieres in theaters nationwide on March 31.. Spinning Gold follows the musical journey of Bogart, one of the music industry’s … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesOpening with a quote from Nietzsche ‘there is also some madness in love, but there is is some reason in madness’ this timely narrative about how extreme homophobia is in Russia is a saddening tale about the price of being gay (and in love) in that country. Anton and his boyfriend Vlad are driving … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesWhen out-gay German film director Roland Emmerich bombed The White House in ‘Independence Day’ everyone cheered (it became the first movie to take over $100 million at the Box Office in a week). However the moment he announced that his latest movie would be revisiting the Stonewall Riots that had marked the start of the gay liberation … Continue reading