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Shooting Star : a Porn Star Musical written by a Porn Star
Could ‘Shooting Star’ the musical become like the Hamilton of the gay adult film industry? After all when it premiered in Los Angeles recently, the LA Times called ts “A traditional American musical: A HEARTWARMING TALE of misfits.” “ Written by Florian Klein aka Hans Berlin the adult films star, in what we suppose…
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Queerguru’s Andrew Hebden reviews LUKAS DHONT’s ‘wounding masterpiece’ CLOSE at BFI London Film Festival
On a film that loosely follows the seasons, to say that Lukas Dhont’s Close might make you weep is as inevitable as saying winter might follow autumn. The emotions are so finely evoked in this masterful coming of age drama they could have been drawn with an eyelash. 13-year-olds Leo (Eden Dambrine) and Remi…
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Queerguru’s José Mayorga reviews REX GILDO / THE LAST DANCE (DER LETZTE TANZ) the double life of one of Germany’s most famous entertainers
The biographical film tells the story of how Ludwig Franz Hirtreiter (1936-1999) became Rex Gildo, an idol of its time in Germany. He was born in Bavaria and is buried in Munich, at one side rests his manager Fred Miekley, and at the other his cousin and wife Marion Ohlsen. He was a well-known…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews ALL KINDS OF LOVE a comedy-drama about complex love lives
All Kinds of Love is a comedy-drama about the complex love lives of a collection of people living at a relatively slow pace in a small town in the US. We first meet the rather intense, slightly melancholy, Max (Matthew Montgomery) and his more relaxed partner Josh (Steve Callahan), who are splitting up just…
