José Mayorga
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Queerguru’s José Mayorga reviews HOMEBODY a tender drama about gender expression
WHEN THE LIPSTICK IS A STATEMENT A tender fictional film with visually attractive drawings, moving images, and ingenious storytelling of a boy that inhabits for a while the body of his babysitter. Curious Johnny (Tre Ryder) and sensitive Melanie (Colbi Minifie) share daily life activities while Johnny´s mother is away. She is his…
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Queerguru’s José Mayorga reviews I’LL SHOW YOU MINE : a two-hander family confrontational drama
This fictional film is split into 10 chapters titled: Discovery, Observation, Assessment, Negotiation, Presumption, Revelation, Persistence, Misdirection, Culmination, and Coalescence. A talky film with animations illustrating the dialogue the two protagonists have. Priya Sura (Poorna Jagannathan) invites Nick (Casey Thomas Brown), to work together as partners in the (illustrated?) book she is going to…
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Queerguru’s José Mayorga reviews REX GILDO / THE LAST DANCE (DER LETZTE TANZ) the double life of one of Germany’s most famous entertainers
The biographical film tells the story of how Ludwig Franz Hirtreiter (1936-1999) became Rex Gildo, an idol of its time in Germany. He was born in Bavaria and is buried in Munich, at one side rests his manager Fred Miekley, and at the other his cousin and wife Marion Ohlsen. He was a well-known…
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Queerguru’s José Mayorga reviews CUT! (aka ¡Corten! ) a very campy parody of terror/horror movie
ACTING IS LYING, AND EVERYONE ACTS IN THEIR DAILY LIFE… Marcos Marcos is a low-budget film director who lives in Barcelona who is despised because of his films. He is immersed in the shooting of his new project, a queer reinterpretation of the Italian Gaillo and metacinema, and although he has a cooperative team,…
