film review

  • Queerguru’s Richard Gilles reviews WE (NOUS)  another innovative film by Alice Diop

    Queerguru’s Richard Gilles reviews WE (NOUS) another innovative film by Alice Diop

      Alice Diop films the suburb where she grew up and still lives, crossed by a suburban train line, the common thread of her 4th documentary, Us. This unifying title sums up the ethics of the film director for whom the stories of immigrants who freshly arrived in France, and the identity of the host…

  • queerguru reviews THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI

    queerguru reviews THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI

      queerguru reviews Frances McDormand giving a tour-de-force performance in the brilliant Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri and we will literally eat our hat(s) if she, and the movie, are not both nominated for Academy Awards. From Fox Searchlight Pictures and now in US movie theaters  

  • queerguru reviews I Am Not Your Negro

    queerguru reviews I Am Not Your Negro

    When the credits roll on respected Haitian filmmaker Raul Peck’s powerful new documentary you will notice that the screenwriter listed is in fact the late author and social critic James Baldwin himself.  This memoir/semi-biography of this great African/American man of letters which links the ideas of three assassinated leaders uses only prose lifted from directly from…