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Radha Blank’s highly entertaining ‘The Forty-Year-Old- Version’ reviewed by Queerguru’s Janet Prolman
“The Forty-Year-Old- Version“ is a highly entertaining film written, directed by, and starring Radha Blank. The title, a play on words (remember “The 40-Year-Old-Virgin?”), signals that despite its heavy subtext of the sexism, racism, and ageism in the theater world, the tone and delivery are not without humor and a bit of spoofing, The…
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Is Joe Vs Carole finally the end of the Joe Exotic saga?
After three seasons of the Netflix documentary about the life of the outrageous gay former zookeeper and convicted felon Joe Exotic , you would think that the public would have no more appetite for his antics. How wrong you would be. There were two feature films/series in the work although the one starring…
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Three Months : a very entertaining queer rom/com that is also a next-generation AIDS drama
Three Months, writer/director Jared Frieder’s debut feature is a rather wonderful queer teen rom/com that includes an AIDS scenario that is both contemporary and positive and for once doesn’t end in death. It’s a finely nuanced tale that is both entertaining and informative that reminds us that the spread of HIV may have declined,…
