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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews BEYOND THE AGGRESSIVES : 25 YEARS LATER revisiting aspirations of a group of six fabulous aggressives, masculine presenting/identifying queer people of colour

    Conversations around gender and sexual identities are hot topics these days. In the heat of the moment, however, it’s useful to look back at how such conversations were framed in previous eras, and how our thoughts have evolved over time. Daniel Peddle’s ground-breaking 2005 documentary, The Aggressives, documented the beliefs, lives, and aspirations … Continue reading

Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews BLOOD-RED OX a queer psycho drama by Bolivian Filmmaker

    Blood-Red Ox is a clever, very unusual, queer psycho-drama set in the Bolivian rain forest. Director Rodrigo Bellott tells a multi-layered horror story of handsome Lebanese-American journalist Amir (Mazin Akar), who travels down from New York to Bolivia with his hot American boyfriend Amat (Kaolin Bass), to meet his old friend Amancaya (Andrea … Continue reading

Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews BLUE JEAN a brilliant new lesbian drama set in Thatcher’s Britain

  “Do you know what the phrase ‘Fight or Flight’ means?” asks gay Geordie PE teacher Jean (Rosy McEwen) of her teenage students at the beginning of the brilliant new drama Blue Jean. It is a physiological reaction that occurs in response to a perceived harmful event, attack, or threat to survival. It’s obviously on … Continue reading

Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews Bo McGuire’s debut feature documentary SOCKS ON FIRE

  Socks on Fire is poet Bo McGuire’s debut feature documentary about his family in rural Hokes Bluff, Alabama. The film won Best Documentary Feature at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival. The main storyline is the feud between one of his aunts, the homophobic Sharon, and his Uncle John, a flamboyant drag queen, over the … Continue reading

Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews BODY SHOP the latest sexual exploits from acclaimed filmmaker Scud

  Bodyshop is the latest, and final film by acclaimed queer Hong Kong filmmaker Scud (Danny Cheng Wan-Cheung), who is retiring. A front-runner in Asian queer film-making, his previous films include Voyage, Utopians, Amphetamine and Adonis. Scud is a unique filmmaker, and here combines extreme sex, nudity, and rape scenes with documentary-type interviews, camp elements, … Continue reading

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