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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews Listen Up! (Hor Her’a’), a brilliant comedy drama debut film from Iranian director Kaveh Tehrani.
It’s the beginning of summer, and fifteen-year-old super-bright Pakistani immigrant Mahmoud (Ahmed Mohammed) is sitting on the grass outside his family’s high-rise apartment in a poor area of Oslo, and considering his options with his best friend, one-eyed Arif (Imram Abdi Kedir). Their choices are limited given their ages, lack of money and…
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Mad About The Boy : The Noel Coward Story : playwright, composer, director, actor, and singer, and one of the wittiest flamboyant men of his generation.
Barnaby Thompson‘s compelling and affectionate portrait of one of the greatest quintessential English man of the first half of the last century is such a sheer joy to view. Noel Coward, later to be Sir Noel, and universally known as The Master was famous as a playwright, composer, director, actor, and singer,…
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High and Low : John Galliano : the tale of a talented and tortured genius
The Scottish Academy-Award Winning filmmaker Kevin Macdonald told Vogue Magazine that he had two main reasons for wanting to make this documentary. Firstly because John Galliano is regarded as one of the greatest designers of the last hundred years. and “everyone tells me this guy’s a genius“. The second reason was because of those…
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Cowboys Are Frequently, Secretly Fond of Each Other
Queerguru’s favorite country song Cowboys Are Frequently, Secretly Fond of Each Other” was originally recorded by Latin country musician Ned Sublette, back in 1981. Now its been re-recorded by the unusual pairing of Orville Peck and Willie Nelson and probably much to Queerguru’s neigbor’s annoyance, we simply cannot stop playing it. Nelson received a tape of…
