2022
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Of all the queer love stories released this Christmas season, Netflix’s SMILEY stands heads and shoulders above the rest
Of all the queer love stories released this Christmas season, Netflix’s SMILEY stands heads and shoulders above the rest. After watching the sanitized don’t-frighten-the-children (or the straight) offerings from both Hallmark and Lifetime TV, it’s so refreshing to see something so authentically queer. However, its creator Guillem Clua who adapted the 8-part series from…
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The first look at Barbie overdosing on pink and all grown up ……
Writer/director Greta Gerwig received two Academy Award nominations for Little Women but now her latest film is on the most famous ‘little’ women of all time: Barbie. It’s an intriguing prospect especially when you also know that her writing partner (and also lifetime partner) is Noah Baumbach who picked up an Academy Award for…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews BALABAN a rare queer drama from Kazakhstan
Balaban is the touching story of the coming-of-age relationship between two teenage HIV-positive girls in Kazakhstan and their journey toward freedom and love. Based on real-life events, writer and director Aysulu Onaran highlights the case of 160 children who were infected with HIV during blood transfusions in Kazakhstan in 2006 when untested blood was…
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Jack Plotnick’s brilliant spin on Disney will make poor Walt turn over in his grave
The comic genius Jack Plotnick so made our week with another of his blisteringly funny Disney spoofs. This one entitled Disney Made a House of the Future stars …….. well Jack actually p.ays ALL the parts. The very wicked sense of humor from this multi-talented writer/director/ actor/ teacher/ mentor is a sheer joy…
