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Katherine Dieckmann talks about Strange Weather
Writer/director Katherine Dieckmann talks about Strange Weather her new movie, and in particular the powerful potentially award-winning performance of Holly Hunter in this intriguing Southern drama. The interview was filmed at The Lands End Inn Provincetown during #PIFF2017 by Heather Reed & Hussein Wentz for ‘queerguru reports’ on PTV’s Channel 99
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Alaska is a Drag
In her enchanting feature debut writer/director Shaz Bennett spares no punches in showing how brutal and isolated Alaska can be especially if you are anything different than the norm. Leo (newcomer Martin L. Washington Jr.) is just that and more. He may work gutting fish in a Cannery by day, but at night this black gay…
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Freak Show
Sometimes even casting a 3 time Golden Globe Winner (and two-time Oscar nominee) cannot save a movie from being a disappointing convoluted mess like Freak Show is. Bette Midler sails through her cameo performance as the on/off alcoholic mother (Muv) of Billy Bloom ( a remarkably good Alex Lawther) who is the protagonist in this…
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After Louie’s Vincent Gagliostro on daring us to dream again
The veteran gay activist/author/playwright Larry Kramer was right. Again. After Louie is indeed a movie that had to be made. Filmmaker Vincent Gagliostro talks about his directing debut with this powerful and entertaining inter-generational drama about AIDS. Starring Alan Cumming and Zachary Booth the story tackles how we are all coping now the the…
