David Allen
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Queerguru’s David Allen reviews ‘HIM’ : a compelling, complicated, frustrating, hopeful story that is grounded in love.
It never ceases to amaze me where you can find small, independent performance spaces. Nestled under a railway arch, a 15-minute walk from London Bridge, is the Union Theatre. Seating maybe 40-50 people, as the doors opened and we were allowed in, the scene was set before us. A man sat at a table busily…
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Queerguru’s David Allen reviews Leo Woodall’S star turn with Dustin Hoffman in ‘TUNER ‘
The last time I saw Leo Woodall in anything, he was providing ‘services’ for his gay ‘uncle’ in the second season of ‘The White Lotus’ (that’s as queer-adjacent as this review gets, by the way). In director Daniel Roher’s ‘Tuner’, Leo plays Niki White, a piano tuner and apprentice to the increasingly frail and foggy-minded…
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Queerguru’s David Allen reviews “ME Caveman you narcissist” a novel by Steve Attwell
Who’d have thought that going to an art exhibition in Brighton would lead me to one of the best books I’ve read this year? The book in question is ‘ME Caveman you narcissist’ by Steve Attwell and I saw the intriguing cover created by Dan & Serg at their exhibition, ‘Personae‘ a couple of weeks…
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Queerguru’s David Allen reviews MASC the debut feature from London-based artist Bertil Nilsson @ TIFF
Most movies are a passive watch where we sit at home or in a movie theatre and the story unfolds before us. ‘MASC’ from writer/director/producer Bertil Nilsson makes you work. This is by no means a bad thing, but it doesn’t make for a straightforward movie to review, not least because I don’t want to…
