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 queertiquesIt’s tough being a young Mormon man. At aged 20 you are made to leave home and dispatched to some far flung part of the world to pair up with another innocent youth and for the next two years be a Missionary and force the Gospel on to unsuspecting souls to recruit them as new members … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThis dark and rather dismal coming of age tale is set South Africa’s central Free State province inhabited by Afrikaners made up of isolated farms where time seems to have stopped still. In fact it really is difficult to work out if this a period piece or not, and it is only the eventual … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesIt’s 1991 and Charlie a nervous and melancholic teenager is praying to make it through his first year in High School in one piece. He’s a really bright kid but such a loner and when he encounters an eccentric live-wire Patrick, a Senior who has been sent down to re-take his junior year, he gravitates … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiques17 year-old Sangaile’s summer starts on an airfield in any idyllic country town in Lithuania where her wealthy parents have escaped with her for the vacations. She is watching an air-show with some spectacular daredevil aeronautical displays by small private planes when she catches the attention of Auste who is selling raffle tickets for a … Continue reading