drama
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Queerguru’s Justin David reviews DAVID BENSON’s star turn in ‘MY LIFE WITH KENNETH WILLIAMS’
Circle & Star Theatre, Hampstead David Benson returns with his legendary portrait of the outrageous comedy star in My Life with Kenneth Williams When I was a child, Kenneth Williams was one of the characters I most looked forward to on television. He was a household name, a national treasure. Yes, immortalised by the…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews 3670, a thought-provoking tale of a shy North Korean gay defector’s assimilation into Seoul’s vibrant queer life.
South Korea has a vibrant queer scene, particularly in buzzing Seoul. The mainstream society remains fairly conservative, though, and many queer people remain in the closet there. 3670, a new drama by director Joonho Park, explores this from the perspective of Kim Cheol-jun (You-hyun Cho), a handsome North Korean defector who escaped to South Korea…
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Queerguru reviews THE COMPATRIOTS a heart-stirring feature film about the inquities of immigration for queers
Writer/director SPENCER COHEN’s heart-stirring feature film debut THE COMPATRIOTS, is a real labor of love. Inspired from his own life story when he discovered that his best friend at school was an illegal immigrant and his whole life in the US was at risk. Later, when Cohen was in Film School, this innocuous situation inspired…
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Queerguru’s David Lagachu reviews Antony Hickling’s award winning ‘DOWN IN PARIS’ & now wants to take the first flight to France
It is impossible to overlook the influence of Federico Fellini’s 8½ in especially in the surreal bits of the film when reality and illusion collide to make way for a dazzling humane effect. A middle-aged film director wandering about in a glamourous city looking for inspiration and facing his demons head-on is a cinematic trope…
