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queerguru reviews Jackie
It’s quite extraordinary that acclaimed Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larraín known mainly for his generally aggressive dramas interspersed with violence about his own country, should choose such a quintessential American story as Jackie for his first English speaking movie. The fact that he succeeds so well with his version of the accounts in the week that…
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If God Were Gay
What would have happened if God was gay in the very beginning when he started The Creation? There were some clues, as who else could have made the Garden of Eden full of all those fruits look so fabulous than some very artistic homo? And if so, would Eve be confined to just being Earth’s…
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Concrete Night
One can only imagine when the Finnish Film Academy submitted Concrete Night as the country’s official submission for the Best Foreign Picture Oscar in 2014, that the Finnish Tourist Authorities must have had a royal fit. This deeply disturbing story is shot in a bleak unforgiving depressing public housing project in one of Helsinki’s rougher…
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Good Clean Fun in The Showers
Some commentators talk about ‘bromance’ as if it was a new phenomenon whereas the reality is that many ‘straight’ men have always enjoyed extremely close no-holds-barred camaraderie with each other for decades. There is nothing like a good old communal Army shower where naked men can indulge in some seemingly innocent horseplay which comes…
