Andrew Hebden
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Queerguru’s Andrew Hebden reviews SPENCER ‘a fable from a true tragedy’ at London Film Festival
It’s 7.30 am and a line stretching three blocks is already forming for Spencer, directed by Pablo Larrain, one of the movies with buzz at this year’s London Film Festival. Starring Kristen Stewart it is a “fable from a true tragedy” that captures the life of Princess Diana over a three-day period. Just as it…
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The Pleasure Garden: A Vauxhall Musical : reviewed by Queerguru’s Andrew Hebden
The Pleasure Garden ☆☆☆☆ Above The Stag Theatre, London If you were thirsty for a better musical after this week’s release on Amazon Prime of the one dimensional and utterly forgettable Everybody is Talking About Jamie then fear not, to the rescue comes The Pleasure Gardens, which is fruity, spirited, and welcome as a bowl…
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Queerguru @ London Film Festival : Andrew Hebden reviews the excellent FLEE
It’s the (second) most wonderful time of the year. The 2021 London Film Festival is about to heap a feast of brand-new meaty morsels on us and Queerguru is ready to slice it, dice it, and serve it up fresh. There was no better or more challenging way to plunge into this year’s programming than…
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Queerguru”s Andrew Hebden reviews Tell Me Straight …… ( and writes ‘settle for nothing less’)
Tell Me Straight ☆☆☆☆ Kings Head Theatre, London Tell Me Straight will sound off-putting to a lot of people. A play about a gay man who has a succession of hopeless relationships with straight men conjures up images of a self-loathing tragic character chasing the impossible, doomed to unhappiness because he would despise anyone who…
