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Of all the queer love stories released this Christmas season, Netflix’s SMILEY stands heads and shoulders above the rest
Of all the queer love stories released this Christmas season, Netflix’s SMILEY stands heads and shoulders above the rest. After watching the sanitized don’t-frighten-the-children (or the straight) offerings from both Hallmark and Lifetime TV, it’s so refreshing to see something so authentically queer. However, its creator Guillem Clua who adapted the 8-part series from…
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Happy Holidays from all of us …….
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The first look at Barbie overdosing on pink and all grown up ……
Writer/director Greta Gerwig received two Academy Award nominations for Little Women but now her latest film is on the most famous ‘little’ women of all time: Barbie. It’s an intriguing prospect especially when you also know that her writing partner (and also lifetime partner) is Noah Baumbach who picked up an Academy Award for…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews BALABAN a rare queer drama from Kazakhstan
Balaban is the touching story of the coming-of-age relationship between two teenage HIV-positive girls in Kazakhstan and their journey toward freedom and love. Based on real-life events, writer and director Aysulu Onaran highlights the case of 160 children who were infected with HIV during blood transfusions in Kazakhstan in 2006 when untested blood was…
