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Ira Sachs and Ben Wishaw almost made three films together in a row.
You could be forgiven for thinking that maybe there is ‘something’ going on between filmmaker Ira Sachs and actor Ben Wishaw. The two of them are currently promoting the release of the biographical Peter Hujar’s Day, which centers on an extended conversation between Hujar (Ben Whishaw), a brilliant but struggling photographer, and his close friend,…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews the brilliant ‘Blue Moon’, directed by Richard Linklater starring Ethan Hawke & Andrew Scott
Breaking up is hard to do, romantically or otherwise, especially in a very public scenario, and where alcohol is involved. Director Richard Linklater’s latest film, Blue Moon, examines the tragic 1940s professional break-up between Broadway lyricist Lorenz Hart (Ethan Hawke) and his composing partner Richard Rodgers (Andrew Scott). The duo, America’s Gilbert and Sullivan, were…
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Scissors Sisters’s JAKE SPEARS makes his movie debut in the highly anticipated PILLION a BDSM film
More sizzling news has landed on Queerguru’s desk about (one of) the most highly anticipated queer films this Fall. We wrote recently about our first look at PILLION starring Alexander Skarsgård as an enigmatic biker who starts a BDSM relationship with Harry Melling a timid gay man. The film had its world premiere in the Un…
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Queerguru reviews MAJOR! the story of iconic transgender legend Miss Major Griffin-Gracy
Annalise Ophelian’s documentary MAJOR! is an affectionate profile of one of the greatest leaders of the transgender community Major Griffin-Gracy who has just died aged 78. Known to most people simply as Miss Major or Major she is a larger-than-life old school activist who leads by example helping literally hundreds of trans-women of color,…
