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The Wedding

  This intriguing autobiographical wee film helmed by Egyptian/American filmmaker Sam Abbas who wrote, directed and starred in it, is full of promise which sadly is often over-shadowed by the movie’s rather deadpan and flat production.   Abbas plays Rami living in New  York’s Lower East Side with his fiance  Sara (Nikohl Boosheri) who is anxious to … Continue reading

The White Crow ; the story of the original Bad Boy of Ballet

  For his third time behind the camera the two time Academy Award nominated actor Ralph Fiennes has tackled the story of the defection to the West of Rudolph Nureyev the Russian who was one of the greatest dancers of all time. With a script by two time Academy Award nominated writer David Hare, this … Continue reading

The Wishmakers

This low-budget romantic comedy is about three college friends who spend a summer living together in West Hollywood. Two of them are openly gay, while the third, whilst the third who is obviously a big old queen, claims to be a bi-sexual. They all throw a penny into a fountain and make a wish for what … Continue reading

The World has a new Queer Icon : namely the star of the campy horror movie COCAINE BEAR

  Waking up this  Monday morning we discover that the LGBTQ community has adopted a brand new queer icon!  He is the star of a sleeper hit of a camp horror-comedy film in which he takes the title role., and seemingly everyone has fallen in love with him.   COCAINE BEAR‘s tale is actually based on … Continue reading

The World of Radical Glamour “SUNDAYS AT CAFÉ TABAC” Chronicles The Legendary Lesbian Night In NY’S East Village (1993-95)

      It is no secret that lesbian bars and spaces in the US are rapidly disappearing. Back in 2020, Queerguru ran a review of The Lesbian Bar Project about there only being 15 left (see https://queerguru.com/15-lesbian-bars-left-in-the-us-join-the-fight-back/). With the progress of LGBTQ rights, visibility and safe spaces, and social life considerably shifted over onto … Continue reading

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