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Silence
It took Martin Scorsese several decades to bring Shūsaku Endō’s 1966 celebrated epic novel Silence about religious persecution in 17th Century Japan to the screen, and this obvious project of passion is one of the filmmaker’s most visually stunning movies to date. Endō, a Japanese Roman Catholic, based his story on an historical figure Cristóvão Ferreira a Portuguese…
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Golden Globes go Gay (ish)
The stunning LGBT coming-of-age drama Moonlight from filmmaker Barry Jenkins, based on a play by openly gay writer Tarell Alvin McCrane rightly walked away with the top prize of Best Drama at the Golden Globes last night cementing an excellent night for diversity in general. (The movie incidentally is already number 30 in the list of…
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Butterflies
This obscure wee Russian documentary from Dmitry Kubasov that queerguru stumbled across is one of those baffling bizarre movies that, despite your better judgement, you watch to the very end only to declare W.T.F! Ostensibly it’s the story of 21 year old Alexey Artemiev who may be (!) an aspiring filmmaker who is shooting a…
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I Don’t Pop My Cork For Every Man I See
The words are from one of Dame Shirley Bassey’s numerous hits ‘Big Spender’ and may (or may not) be true about the diva’s very colorful life that helped established her as Britain’s favorite gay icon. Dame Shirley, best known for singing three of the James Bond theme songs, started performing 63 years ago at the…
