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Queerguru reviews Cinémode by Jean Paul Gaultier …. of Life in Paris Frills…
Watching Jacques Becker’s masterpiece about Parisian Couture in the late 40s, starring the delightful Micheline Presle, on his grandmother’s TV set on a Sunday afternoon and more specifically, the fashion show at the end of the film – every single gown created by the extremely talented and very much forgotten Marcel Rochas – was…
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Queerguru’s Andrew Hebden goes to pantoland to see Dick Whittington: A New Dick In Town
Dick Whittington : A New Dick in Town ☆☆☆☆ Above The Stag Theatre London This Dick is just what London needed. Using an avalanche of entendres about the titular cast member the laughs come at a rapid pace in a, dare we say, full-throated ode to all the trials and tribulations of post-Covid London.…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews Bo McGuire’s debut feature documentary SOCKS ON FIRE
Socks on Fire is poet Bo McGuire’s debut feature documentary about his family in rural Hokes Bluff, Alabama. The film won Best Documentary Feature at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival. The main storyline is the feud between one of his aunts, the homophobic Sharon, and his Uncle John, a flamboyant drag queen, over the…
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A Royal Secret : the real-life story of when the King of Sweden fell in love with a man
You may have to keep pinching yourself that this very intriguing TV mini-series is based on a true story as there are times when it simply belies belief. It’s the stuff of fairy tales when a King falls in love with a commoner although it’s usually with a member of the opposite sex, unlike…
