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MIAMI FILM FESTIVAL GEMS 2025 : Queerguru’s TOP PICKS OF MUST SEE FILMS
The exceptional Miami Film Festival has been around since 1984, and as part of its continuing growth, ten years ago they introduced The Gems Film Festival. It’s a second permanent festival to its annual activities, a four-day event to present the “jewels” of the fall season….. and as we studied this year’s program, we actually uncovered…
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Queerguru’s Jose Mayorga reviews REBUILDING in which Josh O’Connor steals the pic. Again
A devastated landscape after wildfires sets the tone of this fictional drama the sophomore film written and directed by Max Walker-Silverman. Magnificent woods turned into vast extensions of severely damaged land, a deserted place where the silhouettes of burnt trees are like ghosts, also referring to the feelings of the protagonists. Dusty (Emmy Award winner…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews the brilliant ‘Blue Moon’, directed by Richard Linklater starring Ethan Hawke & Andrew Scott
Breaking up is hard to do, romantically or otherwise, especially in a very public scenario, and where alcohol is involved. Director Richard Linklater’s latest film, Blue Moon, examines the tragic 1940s professional break-up between Broadway lyricist Lorenz Hart (Ethan Hawke) and his composing partner Richard Rodgers (Andrew Scott). The duo, America’s Gilbert and Sullivan, were…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews Maspalomas, an interesting character study about what happens when an older man goes back into the closet.
Vicente (Jose Ramon Soroiz) is having the time of his life. Newly single after a twenty-five-year relationship, the penniless seventy-five-year-old gay man has moved to Maspalomas, staying with a friend in the hedonistic queer enclave in Gran Canaria, Spain. There, by day he hangs out on the beach and cruises in the dunes, and at…
