Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesDon’t be fooled by the deceptive title of this movie which implies it is just another teenage romp, as Craig Boreham’s feature film debut, is one of the most powerful edgy LGBT dramas to come out of Australia for some years. It’s hard not to compare it with Ana Kokkinos’s 1998 award-winning break-out hit ‘Head … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesTrue Story: After waxing lyrical about this lovely film for ten minutes to a confused and concerned looking friend it turns out that ’ Tell it to the Bees’ pronounced in an English accent to an American ear sounds like Teletubbies. Once you are over that you are confronted by a love story that … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesTerror Nullius is an anarchic 55 minute scrapbook of hundreds of movies and TV programs sewn together to deliver a two fingered salute to the Crocodile Dundee notion of colonial white Aussie manhood. Crudely clever, but lacking a continuous narrative, it manages to suggest a whole load of cinematic what-if scenarios that film makers could embrace … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesWhen the AIDS epidemic first started back in the early 1980’s the air was rife with panic and dramatic rumors that took the place of hard facts about the disease that were so few and far in between. Nowhere more so than in San Francisco home to a significantly large gay community. By 1985 when … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesTestosterone Volume 2, a new collection of short gay movies from TLA Releasing, is much darker than its predecessor which was released last October. With the exception of two of these films they all take an intriguing look at the male psyche via somewhat traumatic stories. Straight of the bat, the first film in this … Continue reading