Film Reviews
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queerguru reviews Jackie
It’s quite extraordinary that acclaimed Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larraín known mainly for his generally aggressive dramas interspersed with violence about his own country, should choose such a quintessential American story as Jackie for his first English speaking movie. The fact that he succeeds so well with his version of the accounts in the week that…
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queerguru reviews Manchester By The Sea
queerguru reviews for P.T.V. Casey Affleck’s career best performance in Manchester By The Sea which is currently being nominated for almost every major acting award, and Best Picture too.
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queerguru reviews Moonlight
Moonlight is probably the most exquisite and understated LGBT coming-of-age story to hit our screens for years. Light on plot and even sparse on dialogue, it nevertheless packs a powerful punch showing the inner turmoil of an African/American youth coming to terms with his own sexuality as he grows up in one of the tougher aggressively machismo…
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queerguru reviews Denial
Denial is based on a very real story that started in 1996 when the right-wing British author and historian David Irving (Timothy Spall) filed a libel suit against a Jewish-American history professor Deborah Lipstadt (Rachel Weisz) and her British publisher Penguin Books for publishing a British edition of Lipstadt’s book ‘Denying the Holocaust’. In her book…
