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This Valentine’s Day go swoon over Jacob Elordi as the latest (hunk) to play Heathcliff in WUTHERING HEIGHTS
If you haven’t firmed up plans for VALENTINE’S DAY next month, then we have the answer for you. Brit actress turned Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Emerald Fennell will be releasing her latest movie that day. It’s her own take on Emily Brontë’s perennial classic WUTHERING HEIGHTS, which was first filmed in 1939 and earned Laurence Olivier…
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Queerguru’s Jose Mayorgas reviews the restored classic Luchino Visconti’s CONVERSATION PIECE (Gruppo di famiglia in un interno)
A film from 1974 by Luchino Visconti may have autobiographical connotations. It introduces us to il Professore (Burt Lancaster), a well-studied and traveled man who lives comfortably and quietly in his flat located in the heart of Rome. He has a lively interest in arts and literature, and he lives with a loyal housekeeper and cook,…
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Queerguru reviews A MAN WITH SOLE: THE IMPACT OF KENNETH COLE : with the biggest social conscience in the Fashion Industry
I was always aware of the witty campaigns the American footwear designer KENNETH COLE ran as part of his personal commitment in the fight against AIDS, but I had no idea of either its depth or its success. Dori Berinstein‘s documentary “A Man With Sole: The Impact of Kenneth Cole,” finally tells the world of…
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Queerguru’s Robert Malcolm reviews DAD GENES a touching doc about discovering family
What is a Family? This is the question at the centre of Dad Genes, a touching documentary that follows the story of Aaron, an affable fifty-year-old single man living a simple life from a tiny room in a Seattle artists’ co-op, where he juggles an administrative job and caring for his aged mother with…
