documentary
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Stunning documentary ‘ASSEMBLY’ A genre-bending journey into Black and queer futures that refuses to be boxed in, opens in NY
Part documentary, part multi-sensory performance, ASSEMBLY the film takes audiences behind the scenes of Rashaad Newsome’s groundbreaking installation at New York’s Park Avenue Armory, transforming a bastion of white military power into a vibrant celebration of queer joy, resistance, and possibility. Blending music, dance, projections, sculpture, holograms, and African fractal patterns, Assembly channels the energy…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews Boy George and Culture Club, a step back in time to the crazy 1980s. Another great documentary by film-maker Alison Elwood.
The UK excelled in glossy pop music in the 1980s, and undoubtedly one of our most successful exports was Culture Club, the legendary four-piece London band fronted by the attention-grabbing singer Boy George (George O’Dowd). A new documentary by esteemed director Allison Elwood (check out her brilliant doc on The Go-Go’s), Boy George and Culture…
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Queerguru reviews ALPHABET SOUP : glorious documentary of non-conforming queer people as they search out new relationships in NY
It’s barely 10 days since we were bemoaning how low Reality TV Dating Shows had sunk. The latest one, ‘Stranded on Honeymoon Island,’ reeked of being the result of a desperate attempt to find a new approach to matching couples up, even if it meant ditching any respect for the institution of marriage. This new…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews ‘Dreaming of You: The making of The Coral’, a nostalgic step back in time to the early 2000’s in North West England, highlighting the importance of male friendship.
How many close friends of the same sex do you have? For men this can be a real issue. Recent research shows that one in five men in the US and one in three men in the UK have no close friends, male or female. Women fare much better – the sisterhood is alive and…
