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Queerguru reviews ELEANOR THE GREAT starring the indomitable 95 year Academy Award Nominee JUNE SQUIBB
We are not sure what came first in this equation, Double Oscar Actress Nominee Scarlett Johnson, making her film directing debut, or Oscar Actress Nominee 95-year-old June Squibb making her first starring role, but the combination made for sheer movie magic Miss Squibb plays Eleanor Morganstein, a high-spirited widow who lives in Florida and shares…
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Queerguru’s Jose Mayorgas reviews ‘SAD JOKES’ portrays modern queer life and the perseverance required of an artist
German film director and writer Fabian Stumm also stars in this comedy-drama that is as contradictory as its title in portraying the absurdity of the human condition with humor and wit. Joseph (Fabian Stumm) is a quiet and shy gay film director, with his best friend Sonya (Haley Luise Jones) they decided to procreate and have a two…
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Queerguru’s Andrew Hebden reviews WHAT A FEELING ….. A Jolly Germanic Lesbian Romcom. at BFI Flare
As the British Film Institute Flare Festival heads into its final few days it’s nice to discover one of those quirky sub genres that makes these events special. Ladies, Gentlemen and Everybody let me introduce a new favourite, the Jolly Germanic Lesbian Romcom. It’s not often we get to put those three words…
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Queerguru’s James Judd reviews FIREWORKS a Italian queer love story based on an infamous hate crime
Can’t two twinks fall in love in peace in 1980 Sicily? No. In a nutshell, that is the story of Fireworks, a new film by Giuseppe Fiorello based on the true story of an infamous hate crime. It imagines the days leading up to the murder of two young men whose deaths caused…
