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Pain & Glory : tormented filmmaker must deal with his demons
The latest film from queer auteur Pedro Almodovar, Spain’s most influential award-winning filmmaker, sees him reunited with actor Antonio Banderas yet again, but also a very welcome return to a homoerotic theme that were so prevalent in his early work. This is the story of a successful but tormented filmmaker Salvador Mallo (played by…
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SEATTLE QUEER FILM FESTIVAL: The Next Five Days
The 24th Edition of the SEATTLE QUEER FILM FESTIVAL kicked off on October 10th at Three Dollar Bill Cinema BUT panic not as the next coming 5 days they have an excellent program of some impeccablae and diverse LGBTQ movies . The QUEERGURU team have seen most of them, and so here are the…
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Queerguru’s Jonny Ward checks out a new recording of beloved Brit Camp Comedy Up Pompei
UP POMPEI The Shaw Theatre “Titter ye not!” The eternal cry of camp icon Frankie Howerd. Welcome to ancient Rome, where the steps of the Forum are peopled by nubile slave girls and a range of outrageous characters including Lurcio’s owner, Ludicrous Sextus the Senator, his wife Ammonia, his son Nausius and his…
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Happy 94th Birthday Dame Angela Lansbury
Happy 94th Birthday Dame Angela Lansbury. You hit Hollywood running up in 1945 by picking up a Best Supporting Actress Oscar Nomination for your performance in GASLIGHT and have never stopped dazzling us ever since. You played both Elvis Presley and Laurence Harvey’s mother in movies even though they were both older than you,…
