drama
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Queerguru’s David Lagachu reviews DRIVE MY CAR a ‘soul-feeding and visually breathtaking’ film by Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Japanese writer Haruki Murakami enjoys a cult status among the readers of the 21st century. Director Ryusuke Hamaguchi undertook the mammoth task of adapting his short story ‘Drive My Car’ into an eponymous film. The result is soul-feeding and visually breathtaking. The film has an unmistakable life force in it that is contagious. …
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Queerguru’s Andrew Hebden goes to the court of “King Richard”
The question on everybody’s lips has to be whether Will Smith is going to dad bod his way to an Oscar with this story of the ego behind the father and coach to Venus and Serena Williams (Sanniya Sidney and Demi Singleton). Perfectly timed for the awards season Queerguru was there to assess whether…
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AUDIBLE : a story of loss, love and triumph at a Deaf High School
In his new short movie, AUDIBLE filmmaker Matthew Ogens abandons us all so quickly. We are so totally engrossed in the story of his finely nuanced documentary that when it ends in 44 minutes we feel almost robbed. He makes it impossible for us not to feel so connected with his cast of deaf…
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Queerguru’s Andrew Hebden reviews Terence Davies’ queer WW1 drama Benediction at London Film Festival
For many British people, the poetic works of Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen were the only rebukes to British nationalism that they were ever taught in school. Sasson recounted not just the wounds of the Great War but also spoke with contempt of the incompetence of the generals, the jingoism of politicians, and the…
