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The Poodle Trainer
queerguru first fell in love with this 7 minute short film at Sundance Film Festival four years ago, and we have never forgotten it for one moment since. It is the delightful story of Irina Markova who has devoted her entire life to her passion of training her poodles to perform in Russian circuses. …
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Toxic Avenger
The Toxic Avenger is a new musical by Joe DiPietro and David Bryan (founding member of Bon Jovi) and is based on a cult film of the same name by Lloyd Kaufman and it seems from tonight’s audience it has a major cult following of its own. The citizens of Tromaville, New Jersey are…
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Ginger Beer
If you don’t know English cockney rhyming slang you may not know that what the title of this play really means, although the picture may give you a big clue. It’s the story of twenty-something Sammy as he tries to navigate the gay male scene. It can all be tough going, between gay male saunas,…
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Call Me By Your Name
Luca Guadagnino’s latest, and best movie has been the subject of a stealth marketing campaign which revealed little of substance about the movie but somehow hyped expectations to a dizzy height. Thankfully for once they proved extremely accurate as this near-faultless film about an intergenerational summer love affair is a sublimely perfect coming-of-age story that is…
