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Queerguru’s Jose Mayorga reviews Marco Berger’s ‘The Astronaut Lovers’ the Opening Night Gala Film at Queer Screen Mardi Gras Festival in Sydney
No astronaut will refuse to look at the stars… In this romantic comedy from Argentinian Teddy Award Winner Marco Berger (one of Queerguru’s very favorite queer filmmakers) Javier Orán and Lautaro Bettoni are Pedro and Maxi, friends from childhood reunited years later at a beach house with a group of friends, during a weekend. While…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews Eddie/Suzy Izzard as Nina Jekyll in a new spin of JEKYLL & HYDE from Hammer Horror
Doctor Jekyll is the latest offering from classic British goth horror/fantasy film makers Hammer Films. Based on the classic 1886 horror novella by Robert Louis Stevenson, director Joe Stevenson adds classic Hammer elements of camp pulp and twisted humour to the twenty-first century reinvention of the enduring tale of duality and the inter-play…
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Queerguru’s Jose Mayorga reviews MYSTERIOUS WAYS a rare queer NZ/Samoan love story
DO NOT MAKE UGLY SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL Reverend Petter Simmons is an Anglican Vicar advocating for change at St. John´s Church in a small town in New Zealand . He is a widower, has a teenage daughter but is now in love with Samoan Jason, who served 8 years in prison and is the actual…
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Queerguru’s Jose Mayorga reviews THE BEAUTIFUL SUMMER (La bella estate) from Laura Luchetti
Set in Pre-war Turin with Benito Mussolini´s speeches as background, the film shows the journey into adulthood of a young woman from the countryside coming to the city with her brother, in a story held by pins. Ginia (Yile Yara Vianello) is a skillful and dedicated seamstress, dress and pattern maker working at a…
