Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterThe openly gay Academy & Emmy Award-winning writer/director ALAN BALL known for American Beauty, Six Feet Under and True Blood has a brand new series on HBO which so needs to be seen. Here and Now is heavy on family discord, Holly Hunter, and gay sex. The story of a multiracial family that’s slowly unraveling, the series … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterA trailer has just been released of David Bowie: The Last Five Years a stunning new documentary with some never-before-seen footage which looks primarily at Bowie’s recordings and release of his final two albums, The Next Day and Blackstar. Directed and produced by documentarian Francis Whately, who also made David Bowie : Five Years in 2013. … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterA quinceañera is a Latin American tradition celebrating a girl’s coming of age on her 15th birthday. Zoey a Mexican/American living in Los Angeles however is a little difference as she is a transgender girl. She is dedicating her quinceañera to her trans godmothers who helped her through her transitioning but who never got … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queermatterHBO have brought forward the screening of Bright Lights the greatly anticipated documentary on inseparable mother and daughter Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher after their recently untimely deaths. Directed by Oscar winning documentarian Fisher Stevens and his co-director Alexis Bloom, the movie premiered last May at the Cannes Film Festival to great acclaim. After a … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideEvery Christmas Frank Capra’s 1946 classic movie It’s A Wonderful Life is dragged out for another airing on TV. Lest you have never seen it (!) its the story of George Bailey who is so depressed by the fact that everything is going wrong that he seriously contemplates taking his own life only to be … Continue reading
