David Allen
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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…
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Queerguru’s (newest) Contributing Editor DAVID ALLEN rallies to the message of hope in ‘ADAM’S APPLE’
In a time where the loudest voices offering up their opinions and making decisions about trans people aren’t trans themselves, Adam Sieswerda, with his mother Amy Jenkins, provides a voice we need to be listening to in the documentary ADAM’S APPLE. Amy is an accomplished artist who has been visually documenting her life since her…
