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The Man With The Answers
One of three World Premieres at this year’s Queer Screen’s Mardi Gras Film Festival in Sydney Australia is a truly delightful feel-good road movie, The debut feature from queer Greek filmmaker Stelios Kammitsis is one of those romances you are never sure will work, but the journey is so worth it anyway. It all…
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Going Down Under for Queer Screen Mardi Gras Film Festival
Now is when we should leave the snow of the Western Hemisphere and go Down Under. The 28th Edition of Queer Screen – Mardi Gras Film Festival is ls already underway in Sydney and Online. It is the fifth largest LGBTQ Film Fest, and one of the very best. Here’s Queerguru Pick of the…
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The Coast is Queer : Queer literary Festival Feb 2021
At one point during the session Queers in the Library, there was a brief discussion of the concept of space itself, that the library can be as much a virtual zone as a material one, a space both physical and theoretical. It seemed to me to sum up the whole of the festival…
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Dame Maggie Smith and Kathleen Turner : Stories and maybe some Shade
Over 20 years ago (and pre Downton) Dame Maggie Smith was starring in Alan Bennett’s play The Lady in The Van in the Queens Theatre in London’s West End. She was nominated for a Best Actress Award at the Oliviers and then later she would reprise the role in the film adaptation. Meanwhile at the…
