drama
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Queerguru’s Robert Malcolm reviews the final performance of ‘EXXY’ at the Edinburgh Int. Festival
EXXY is Australian slang for “that’s expensive mate”. It is used here to describe “class, value and the cost of success”. Dan Daw is a working-class queer artist with cerebral palsy. In EXXY he takes us back to his roots in the bush near Adelaide, where he grew up in poverty with his Nan. His…
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Queerguru´s Ris Fatah reviews “Invisible Me” a very relevant comedy-drama currently on at London´s Southwark Playhouse Theatre.
INVISIBLE ME SOUTHWARK PLAYHOUSE Longevity is all the rage at the moment – physical longevity that is. However, we won’t live long and happy lives if we don’t focus on our mental health as well, particularly as we age. Invisible Me, a comedy-drama by Bren Gosling, currently on at London´s Southwark Playhouse, examines this…
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Queerguru’s Jose Mayorgas reviews THE ACTIVIST :a rare Lithuanian queer film
Lithuanian drama/thriller/noir directed by Romas Zabarauskas, in his own words: THE ACTIVIST is a hopeful celebration of civic society, let´s add with its intricacies. LGBT+ rights in Lithuania have evolved slowly over the years since its independence from the Soviet Union in 1993, although same sex sexual activity among consenting adults is not criminalized, people…
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QUEERGURU reviews SURFACING the debut feature film by Canadian actor CHRISTIAN SMITH
In his native Canada, actor, writer, sketch Comedian and Improviser CHRISTIAN SMITH is known as the co-Creator of the CBC Digital Comedy, Soul Decision Comedy and one half of YouTube darlings Christian & Nat, so its odd to us that for his feature film directing debut, he would choose SURFACING. It’s a story about dysfunctional families and…
