Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews ‘DON’T EVER STOP’ the story of legendary DJ Tony De VIt the musical force at Londons queer after-hours club TRADE
London’s queer bar/club scene at the beginning of the 1990s entered its most exciting decade to date. The homophobic attitudes of the 1980s had eased somewhat due to the widespread use of ecstasy across the UK during the recent acid house rave years. This combined with a hedonist live-for-the-moment attitude in the queer community … Continue reading
Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews DREAMING WALLS : Inside The Chelsea Hotel
New York’s infamous W. 23rd St. Chelsea Hotel, ‘a rest stop for rare individuals’, reopened earlier this year, completely refurbished into yet another luxury hotel. About 40 of the rooms are still occupied by its original artist/creative tenants, who are protected, rent-stabilized long-term residents. The controversial stop-start remodeling work took about 11 years … Continue reading
Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews EL HOUB (The Love) a tense queer melodrama within the Dutch-Moroccan community in Holland
El Houb (The Love) is a tense family melodrama set within the Dutch-Moroccan community in Holland. Successful young businessman Karim (Fahd Larhzaoui) and his Ghanian boyfriend Kofi (Emmanuel Boafo) are in a state of undress at Karim’s smart apartment when Karim’s father Abbas (Slimane Dazi), a postman, delivers a package and sees Karim in … Continue reading
Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews ‘Everything at Once; Kink ” at BFI Flare London’s LGBTQ+ Film Fest
Everything at Once: Kink is director Alberto Fuguet’s behind-the-scenes look at the work of Spanish photographers Paco Moyano and Manolo Rodriguez and their homo-erotic magazine, Kink. Barcelona-based couple Paco and Manolo have been together for 30 years, and over that time have carved out a special space for their male photography in … Continue reading
Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews EVERYTHING OF VALUE a queer disturbing Dutch drama that lets you choose the ending
Everything of Value (Alles van Waarde) is director Stanley Kolk’s originally constructed background story to a violent assault on two queer men one night in the shadow of a church in a small town in Holland. Kolk cleverly combines a fake documentary format, interviews and footage of the behind-the-scenes casting to recall this disturbing … Continue reading