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This very dark melodrama is the feature film writing/directing debut of French Canadian actor Yan England and is a chilling tale of the possible consequences of unchecked schoolyard homophobia. Sixteen-year-old Tim (Antoine Olivier Pilon) used to be a star athlete on his school track team, but after his mother died he lost all interest in…
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It took 60 years for openly gay filmmaker JAMES IVORY to get his own Oscar
Lgbt movie fans may be disappointed that Call Me By Your Name just won one of the 4 Academy Awards it was nominated for, but we are not in France where they are happy to have BPM, Robin Campillo’s AIDS drama sweep the boards at the Cesars walking away with 6 Awards, including Best Picture. It was,…
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Oscar losers putting on a brave face
This morning the media is full of all the lucky stars who picked up a gold statuette at the 90th Oscars last night, as the poor runner-ups who are cruelly out of the limelight again. What must it feel like on the morning after? queerguru got exclusive footage of what is going through their minds right…
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Heaven Without People
The setting for this family drama is the home of a Lebanese Christian family who for the first time have managed to get their entire clan together for an Easter lunch. The matriarch Josephine (Samira Sarkis) is nominally in charge, but very soon as the lively conversation gets going with several family members talking…
