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Queerguru’s Jose Mayorga reviews ‘OXYGEN MASKS WILL NOT DROP AUTOMATICALLY’ an enthralling Brazilian mini-series
OXYGEN MASKS WILL (NOT) DROP AUTOMATICALLY is a compelling Brazilian TV mini-series created by Patricia Corso and Leonardo Moreira and directed by Marcelo Gomes and Carol Minêm. In five episodes, it provides an accurate portrait that recreates the feeling of an era (Rio de Janeiro, late 1980s) and relates to the HIV/AIDS crisis in Brazil. The scenarios may…
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Queerguru’s first look at Alexander Skarsgård + Harry Melling in the highly anticipated PILLION (BDSM) movie
First-time film director Harry Lighton raked in some good reviews when he premiered his film PILLON at Cannes earlier this year, where it picked up two awards at A Certain Regard. One of them was the Palm Mutt For Rosie, a Dachshund Hippo and a Rottweiler. (and that’s a first for us!) Leighton based…
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Queerguru’s Jose Mayorga reviews SING SING : An approach tp the justice system based on human dignity
The opening sequence presents a group of actors on stage receiving applause, afterwards they change their costumes for green uniforms and are taken back to Sing Sing Correctional Facility in Ossining, New York, where they are incarcerated. For this group of prisoners, playing Shakespeare is usual; Midsummer Night´s Dream, Hamlet, and King Lear have been included in their…
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Queerguru reviews BEAUTIFUL EVENING, BEAUTIFUL DAY probably the most memorable queer film this year
Croatia is hardly known to be a prolific source of queer movies, but maybe that is about change. Of the 11 movies so far in its history, two of them have been released this year. First was SANDBAG DAM, a superb coming-of-age drama that was nominated for the prestigious queer Teddy Award at the Berlinale,…
