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Queerguru @BFI Flare : SWEETHEART
Throw aside any expectations that Marly Morrison’s Sweetheart will be an achingly Gen Z teen zeitgeist movie and embrace the fact that it belongs to the classic British genre of sexually awkward teen meets nightmare seaside family holiday. Go with it because that is what makes its humiliating inevitability so sweet. April Jane or AJ…
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The NEW place to hangout is RIIS BEACH
Now we actually thinking of getting out and about again, at last, we have just had a new tip about a place that has become one of THE places to be seen having fun. Just west of Rockaway Park in Queens is Riis Beach which has been a whole variety of things in the…
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CRUISE : a new musical set in 1980’s queer London
Following in the steps of the mega-success of Russell T Davies “It’s A Sin” about how the AIDS pandemic changes the landscape of the whole gay scene in London in 1980s comes CRUISE. It’s a new musical written and performed by Warhorse star Jack Holden set in the same period, but also looks at…
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Queerguru @BFI Flare : JUMP, DARLING ….. Cloris Leachman’s exquisite swan song
When you reach the end of the road you are on, what can you do? There are two answers, you stop or change direction. In Cloris Leachman’s final film made prior to her death, both these alternates are explored, and the poignancy is inescapable. Leachman plays Grams, the aging grandmother grown tired, frail, and distanced…
