David Allen
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Queerguru’s (very own Welshman) David Allen reviews MADFABULOUS screening at OUTshine Film Festival
We’re back to Wales, North Wales, the island of Anglesey to be precise, but now we’re in the late 19th century at a time when ‘Oscar Wilde rots in Reading gaol’. ‘Madfabulous’ from director Celyn Jones (who incidentally played the truculent brother in the newly released ‘On the Sea’) and writer Lisa Baker (in her…
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Queerguru’s David Allen reviews “BY THE ROOTS” an autobiographical movie by Madison Young.
Based on her memoir ‘Daddy’, ‘By the Roots’ is an autobiographical movie by Madison Young. Directed, written, and co-produced by Young, the movie also counts Ally Sheedy, who appears briefly in a mid-movie flashback (‘The Breakfast Club’, ‘WarGames’), as one of its executive producers. By day, our lead Madison runs a successful gallery in San…
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Queerguru’s David Allen reviews BERNSTEIN’S WALL the story of the music Maestro
I was introduced to Leonard Bernstein’s work in my mid-20’s (a while ago now) when a friend gave me an ‘Essential Bernstein’ CD; I’d only ever seen snippets of ‘West Side Story’ up to that point. It was a CD I listened to often at the time and continue to now when the mood takes…
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Queerguru’s David Allen falls in love with Wales (again) reviewing ‘ON THE SEA’ at BFI Flare
With the outstanding ‘Lost Boys and Fairies’ being the only other queer drama I can think to be set in my Welsh homeland, it’s a pleasure to see more from there in writer/director Helen Walsh’s ‘On the Sea’. Set near the Menai Straits in North Wales, this is a different environment to that of ‘Lost…
