Josh O’Connor
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Queerguru’s Robert Malcolm drew the lucky straw and got to review the (excellent) ‘THE HISTORY OF SOUND’
Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor, both familiar with portraying LGBTQ+ characters, deliver profoundly moving performances in writer Ben Shattuk’s tender love story The History of Sound. Often compared, somewhat lazily, to Brokeback Mountain, this film distinguishes itself by weaving the emotional magic of music into its narrative. It’s not love at first sight, but…
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Jose Mayorgas reviews ‘THE MASTERMIND’ the latest movie from Kelly Reichardt & starring Josh O’Connor
The latest film written and directed by Kelly Reichardt (First Cow, Certain Women) comes to the screen at the same time real museum heist after what happened last October at the Louvre in broad daylight. A fictional story based on true events is set in 1970 in a boring, quiet suburban town that shows museum…
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LITTLE JOE : A Book About Queers and Cinema
If there are two main things that QUEERGURU cares about passionately, it is queers and cinema. So we are still in mourning over the passing of the cult periodical Little Joe, that published as a limited-edition zine from 2010 to 2021. It challenged the mainstream narrative of film history with a rebellious, queer perspective.…
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Queerguru’s Jose Mayorga reviews REBUILDING in which Josh O’Connor steals the pic. Again
A devastated landscape after wildfires sets the tone of this fictional drama the sophomore film written and directed by Max Walker-Silverman. Magnificent woods turned into vast extensions of severely damaged land, a deserted place where the silhouettes of burnt trees are like ghosts, also referring to the feelings of the protagonists. Dusty (Emmy Award winner…
