2014
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Mr. Turner
Mike Leigh’s stunning biopic of J.M.W.Turner is the portrait of the leading English Romantic landscape artist who was evidently also quite a philanderer and misanthrope too. Set in the 1820’s (although Leigh never tells us that) the movie focuses on the last 20 years of the painter’s life when he was at the height of…
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Corpus Christi : Playing With Redemption
‘It makes you realise how thin the scab over homophobia really is when it doesn’t take much to pick through it’ so said Award-Winning gay playwright Terrence McNally when religious fanatics scared the Manhattan Theater Club into cancelling the run of his play. The year was 1998 and the play was ‘Corpus Christi’ which depicted Jesus…
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Me, Myself & Mum
Guillaume has to ‘come out’ to his entire family but that’s no easy task in this quirky French comedy which has a neat twist on this perennial situation. His problem is that they all pronounced that he was ‘gay’ from birth and have treated him as an effeminate camp boy ever since. The trouble is…
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Queerguru reviews CITIZENFOUR the true controversial story of Edward Snowden
After you have watched Laura Poitras’s powerful documentary on the NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden you will never want to use your bank debit card, or cellphone or even turn your computer on ever again. Whilst it’s not always easy to totally understand the intricate technical details of what Snowden reveals, it is however impossible not…
