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Queerguru’s Jose Mayorgas reviews LOVERS IN THE BLUE NIGHT @ Venice International Film Festival
Water, both calm and tormenting, runs parallel to the protagonist of this story, which unfolds on the fringes of Mumbai, where the four migrants come together. At the beginning, a gray river, stormy skies, the wind, and human voices provide the atmosphere. Right after, we meet introspective Karim, who rides a bike and makes and…
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Queerguru’s Peter Herbert reveiws SCORCH MARKS a new queer sci-fi / horror film screening on DEKKOO
The most interesting way to view Brendan Haley’s gay film Scorch Marks is as a reimagining of End Game, the celebrated tragi-comic absurdist one-act play written by Irish playwright Samuel Beckett in 1957, rather than through traditional tropes of mainstream sci-fi horror. The film opens with a house on a hilltop overlooking a coastal bay…
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‘Test’ and ‘Jim Queen’ deservedly pick up ‘gold’ at Sydney’s Queer Screen Film Festival
Awards given out at Queer Film Fests don’t just recognize the excellence of the winning films but also give a much-needed boost to the future of the films. To this end, we would like to add QUEERGURU’s congratulations this morning to Sam McConnell, director, and Brock Yurich, the writer and star of TEST, who are…
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Farewell Jibby Beane RIP : we may have only known each other for 5 minutes : but BOY !!!!!
Exchanging my British Passport for an American one, marrying my American husband, and buying not one, but two places to live in the US still doesn’t ever mean I will stop celebrating being a Brit. There are so many things I will never stop loving about my country and the whole array of eccentrics that…
