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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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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews ‘If I Had Legs I’d Kick You’ a dark comedy drama with Rose Byrne, Jessie Buckley, A$AP Rocky and Christian Slater.
“Modern Life is Rubbish.” declared Blur with their seminal album way back in 1993. I wonder what they would say now, in our angst-ridden times where no-one and nothing rarely performs as it should. I always think that if 25% of your life is messy, that’s normal, and you can relax about it. If 25-50%…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews MARTY SUPREME which could finally net Timothée Chalamet his first Academy Award
The American hustler has a long history on screen. Add in some raw, brutal 1970s-style New York characterisation – think Robert de Niro or Al Pacino, and you start to get on track to describe the mercurial Marty Mauser, Timothée Chalamet’s complex table tennis champion, star of the must-see, magnificent, old-fashioned caper, Marty Supreme. Loosely based…
