Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesYou may have to keep pinching yourself that this very intriguing TV mini-series is based on a true story as there are times when it simply belies belief. It’s the stuff of fairy tales when a King falls in love with a commoner although it’s usually with a member of the opposite sex, unlike … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesIf you are a lesbian who procrastinated about spending the holidays with your girlfriend and her family, then you’ll love this delightful wee short by writer/director/actor Jenna Laurenzo. She plays the neurotic Kate who is now regretting she turned down her girlfriend’s Sarah (Meryl Jones Williams) invite and deems it necessary to make a … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesFilmmaker Jamila Wignot’s new documentary of modern dance auteur, the tortured genius Alvin Ailey makes for such hypnotic viewing. With a combination of audio interviews with the man himself and some breathtaking archival footage of his early performances, she gives an intimate portrait of one of the greatest interpreters of the universality of the … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesAgnieszka Holland’s biographical tale of a Czech herbal expert who makes a living diagnosing patients by their urine samples may not exactly be everyone’s cup of pee at first. However barely submerged within it is a commentary on the suffocating totalitarian regime it happens under and a pointed statement that supposedly absurd practices supported by … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesQueer filmmaker Matt Wolf was born in 1982 a year after the first cases of AIDS were reported in the US. He may have been too young to remember the pandemic at its height, but his excellent new short documentary captures it so succinctly that it will stir up memories that some of us … Continue reading