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Queerguru’s Jose Mayorgas reviews LOVERS IN THE BLUE NIGHT @ Venice International Film Festival
Water, both calm and tormenting, runs parallel to the protagonist of this story, which unfolds on the fringes of Mumbai, where the four migrants come together. At the beginning, a gray river, stormy skies, the wind, and human voices provide the atmosphere. Right after, we meet introspective Karim, who rides a bike and makes and…
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Revisiting Queerguru’s review of CHATTY CATS (from 2015) a must for EVERY cat lover
For his debut feature, LA-based writer and artist Pablo Valencia used his rather deranged imagination to risk making an extraordinary, innovative black comedy that he almost manages to pull off. Chatty Catties is about an inspiring filmmaker called Shelby who has more than her fair share of emotional issues and substance abuse and who talks…
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Queerguru’s Robert Malcolm’s 5 Star review of Frank Murdocco in ‘SUBLIMATION’ @ ‘Edinburgh Fringe Festival’
Gay, charismatic New Yorker Ethan is in a bad place. The orders have stopped coming in at his one man business, where he prints custom T-shirts and merchandise, and he is trying to claim unemployment with little luck. His last big client was the Kamala Harris campaign, but now, several months into the Trump presidency,…
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Queerguru’s Robert Malcolm reviews the final performance of ‘EXXY’ at the Edinburgh Int. Festival
EXXY is Australian slang for “that’s expensive mate”. It is used here to describe “class, value and the cost of success”. Dan Daw is a working-class queer artist with cerebral palsy. In EXXY he takes us back to his roots in the bush near Adelaide, where he grew up in poverty with his Nan. His…
