2011
Queerguru reviews’ James Franco’s THE BROKEN TOWER
This is an obscure and difficult-to-watch movie about an obscure and difficult-to-read poet. It’s the brief life of Hart Crane a poet and writer well-regarded by his peers but who was one very unhappy homosexual who took his own life in 1932 when he was a mere 33 years old. In his short career…
The Love Patient
I have no idea why I chose to watch this intensely irritating comedy when I found the whole premise of the story so offensive. Maybe just like the movie’s protagonist I am pretty and shallow too and was simply wooed by the images of hunky half naked men on the DVD cover, either way it…
Love Free or Die
This wonderfully moving documentary follows the progress of Gene Robinson who in 2004 was elected as the 1st openly Gay priest Episcopalian Bishop. In 2008 he also became the first Bishop to be banned from attending the powerful Lambeth Conference (the highest forum of the Anglican Church) in London but he traveled there anyway in the hope of…
We Were Here
An emotional and moving account about all the wonderful men and women that died from AIDS in San Francisco. That devastating era is traced through the testimony of 5 people from all walks of life who elegantly articulated their memories on how they watched countless friends and lovers die. The disease infected roughly half of…
