2022
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Queerguru’s Andrew Hebden reviews COP SECRET an action-packed queer Icelandic movie @BFI Flare
It is obvious that the Icelandic director (Hannes Halldórsson) and the two main stars (Egill Einarsson, Auðunn Blöndal) who also were co-writers, are huge fans of the action movie genre. The biggest source of fun in the satire Cop Secret is to play action movie Bingo as all of the tropes of Hollywood’s biggest…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews the BEST SHORT FILMS at @BFI Flare 2022
London’s BFI Flare 2022 queer film festival has an excellent program of international short films. Here are a few of my favorites from this year’s selection – covering Palestine, Egypt, South Korea, Libya, Pakistan, Lebanon, and India. The fact that queer film-making is spreading so globally is very encouraging. Borekas is…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews Allan Brocka’s BOY CULTURE 2021 @BFI Flare
Allan Brocka’s popular comedy series Boy Culture season 1 premiered at BFI Flare in 2006 where we followed the life of escort X (Derek Magyar) and his beautiful boyfriend Andrew (Darryl Stephens of Noah’s Arc). Fast forward 15 years to series two and the six-part sequel finds popular escort X adapting to a very…
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Bert is back in his Big Bed @ The Epiphany Theater
The play BERT’S BIG BED is about a hot guy named Bert who moves to San Francisco. He makes friends with a local bartender who needs his services as a photographer. While at the bar he meets Tim, a cute guy who is having some problems and a few drinks. Tim is having trouble with…
