QUEERGURU

Queer Matter : News, Reviews And Interviews

  • THE RUM DIARY

    This is rather a rum film, which is not surprising when one considers its provenance.  But first the plot.  Set in a Puerto Rico in 1960 that looks like something out of a pretty picture book, it tells the tale of a newly arrived idealistic journalist Paul Kemp who’s perchance for doing good in the…

  • SEVEN MINUTES IN HEAVEN

    Galia has spent the last year recovering from a terrorist bus bombing in Jerusalem, and the extent of her trauma is profound. She suffers from unbearable burn scars that cover her back, intermittent panic attacks and a fractured memory. When her boyfriend Oren—also a victim of the attack—is removed from life support, Galia discovers that…

  • HAPPY HAPPY

    Set in the middle of winter in the middle of nowhere in the middle of Norway this very cold ‘comedy’ is about two couples  bored with each other and they try a bit of wife swapping to liven things up.  Well, it’s not exactly like that as one of the husbands hits on the other…

  • LIMELIGHT (Documentary)

    I was really drawn to this movie cos I wanted to see what I had missed out on way back then when I should have been one of the Party People.  In the early ‘80’s as a Brit living in London when I did visit  NY I did get to enter a very scary meatpacking…