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Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up” never seems to go away : here’s why
In the 1980s in the UK the music industry saw the emergence of electronic dance music and new wave, also known as Modern Rock. Disco fell out of fashion and instead in came soft rock, glam metal, thrash metal, shred guitar characterized by heavy distortion, pinch harmonics, and whammy bar abuse became very popular. In 1987 topping…
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Queerguru reviews MY POLICEMAN that fails to live up all its hype
My Policeman is one of those overhyped films that come to you with a great promise that it fails to deliver. Pop star/actor Harry Styles may be very handsome but he is no matinee idol seems totally out of his depth playing a lead role. He is the least arresting policeman we have ever…
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Queerguru reviews Dustin Lance Black’s ‘ Mama’s Boy: A Story from Our Americas’ The Film
Mama’s Boy : A Story From Our Americas. I fell in love with Dustin Lance Black in 2009. He was in LA accepting his Academy Award for writing the screenplay for MILK in which he made a promise to all the queer kids watching, that things would get better. The very next day Black’s mother…
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The P Word : a powerful thought-provoking piece that tackles the universal problem of LGBTQ+ asylum seekers
Currently playing at London’s Bush Theatre is a powerful thought-provoking piece that tackles the universal problem of LGBTQ+ asylum seekers that seems to get worse every day Waleed Akhtar‘s “The P Word” explores that plus the experience of gay Pakistani men in the UK Split into two halves, in the first act we meet…
