review
-
Queerguru’s David Allen falls in love with Wales (again) reviewing ‘ON THE SEA’ at BFI Flare
With the outstanding ‘Lost Boys and Fairies’ being the only other queer drama I can think to be set in my Welsh homeland, it’s a pleasure to see more from there in writer/director Helen Walsh’s ‘On the Sea’. Set near the Menai Straits in North Wales, this is a different environment to that of ‘Lost…
-
Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews Low Rider, a dramatic South African road trip, director Campbell X’s latest movie @BFI Flare
Low Rider is the latest film by London-based director Campbell X (Stud Life). His work examines themes of colonisation, longing, and Blackness across the African diaspora and Low Rider continues in that vein. We meet Quinn (Emma McDonald), a slightly scatty, naïve, low substance – high maintenance, Gen Z Londoner. Her mother has recently passed…
-
Queerguru reviews the World PremIere of OUT LAWS : the struggle for queer rights in ex Brit Empire
As a Brit gay man, there is always a sense of disgust and despair when you are once again reminded of all the strife and inhumanity our ancestors caused around by enforcing their own misguided sense of morality. This new documentary reminds us yet once again that there are some 64 countries where it is…
-
Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews Catherine Opie – To Be Seen, an exhibition of the artist’s remarkable portraiture, now on at London’s National Portrait Gallery.
Queer America is under attack at the moment, so the representation of LGBTQ American lives is more important than ever. It’s therefore ideal timing for Catherine Opie’s first major UK museum show, To Be Seen, which is now on at London’s National Portrait Gallery. Since she launched her career in the late 1980s, queer representation…
