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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews THE HOLY CLOSET a compelling doc which follows seven different religious queer Jewish households
Queer lives and religion are not always happy bed-fellows and we don’t often hear about religious queer people. A new seven-part documentary web series, The Holy Closet, seeks to address that. Director Moran Nakar follows seven different religious queer Jewish households, examining their loves, lives, hopes and dreams as they navigate a path through…
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Queerguru’s James Judd reviews THE HOLDOVERS a very worthy Academy Award contender
The Holdovers is the latest film from director Alexander Payne (Sideways, Election, Citizen Ruth) to mine the nitty gritty in human interaction, the small stuff that passes between people that mostly go unnoticed but can be life-altering. Payne’s films pride themselves on their low-key approach. There are no histrionics. Rarely are scenes of explosive…
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Queerguru’s James Judd reviews FIREWORKS a Italian queer love story based on an infamous hate crime
Can’t two twinks fall in love in peace in 1980 Sicily? No. In a nutshell, that is the story of Fireworks, a new film by Giuseppe Fiorello based on the true story of an infamous hate crime. It imagines the days leading up to the murder of two young men whose deaths caused…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews SALTBURN with its amazing cast for a twisted account of indulgence that makes for such compulsive viewing
Oxford University, 2006. A fresh intake of young students nervously begin their new lives at university. Oliver Quick (Barry Keoghan), an intelligent, but socially awkward young man from Merseyside, is more out of sorts and lost than most. He’s working class, on a scholarship and doesn’t have the existing social networks that…
