2025
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews ’10s ACROSS THE BORDERS’ documentary about the ballroom scenes in The Phillipines & Thailand
New York’s legendary ballroom scene continues to make an impact around the world. Ball culture was famously immortalised in the 1990 documentary Paris Is Burning, which examined the mid-to-late 80s African-American, LatinX, queer, and trans-led scene, which was founded by Crystal LaBeija in 1968. Madonna then came calling with Vogue, and more recently, Ryan Murphy’s 2018 drama…
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Queerguru’s Jose Mayorgas reviews ‘THE LIBRARIANS’ on the scary rise of rampant book censorship from the Far Right
N.B. We are re-releasing Jose Mayogas review of Kim A Snyder’s excellent doc as it currently streaming FREE on PBS Indepenednt Lens It was a pleasure to burn. It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed. Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury The documentary feature directed by Kim A. Snyder…
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”F*CK IT A Live Gay Dating Show with JESSICA KIRSON
The Boyfriend, a Japanese gay Dating Show TV series on Netflix, is back for a second season. It is probably the most earnest and puritanical approach to finding a partner or love interest we have ever seen. It matters not how cute or well-qualified, it’s just never going to happen. No one is that…
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‘TAKE THAT’ the rise, fall and record-breaking reunion of one of the UK’s most iconic boy bands: on Netflix
Our inbox has recently seen a whole flurry of music biopics/documentaries:Janis Ian: Breaking Silence, Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, Diane Warren : Relentless, A Very Jonas Christmas Movie, David Bowie – The Final Act, etc., etc., and now the latest one is on TAKE THAT, the 90’s Boy Band. A new three-part documentary on Netflix…
