QUEERGURU
Queer Matter : News, Reviews And Interviews
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TELSTAR
In the 1960’s when Phil Spector ruled American pop music, we Brits crowned Joe Meek as our king. They were both very similar people. Flamboyant eccentrics bordering on insane monsters and complete control freaks dependent on heavy drug use and exploiting young unknown talents, they were geniuses nonetheless. We learn in this intriguing bio-pic of…
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THE AMBASSADOR
‘THE AMBASSADOR’ is the work of Mads Brugger a Danish documentarian setting himself up as an ‘African Diplomat’ and under the pretense of representing Liberia he settles in the Central African Republic ostensibly to expose widespread corruption but at the same time becoming a diamond drug smuggler. This hilarious and completely compelling movie is about being a con-man…
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MY DOG TULIP
J R Ackersley was a British writer and editor who started working with the BBC in London the year after its founding in 1927. He published many emerging poets and writers who became influential in Great Britain, and later wrote his own highly successful memoir. He was also openly gay, a rarity in his time…
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HOPE SPRINGS
So what does happen when a marriage just grinds to a halt and you are left with just going through the daily motions with not even bothering (daring?) to mention its demise? This rather intimate and uncomfortable story is just about that when after 31 years of marriage Kay & Arnold live separate lives in…
