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Queerguru’s Jose Mayorga reviews Sebastian Silva’s darkly funny ROTTING IN THE SUN
A depressed movie director (Sebastián Silva as himself) in search of relaxation and inspiration goes to a Mexican gay beach where he meets social media influencer and popular Jordan (Jordan Firstman as himself), whom he invites to spend a few days in his Mexico City apartment. There they will enjoy each other´s company and maybe,…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews THE DISAPPEARANCE OF SHERE HITE a beautiful, very detailed, documentary about the trail-blazing sex educator
Despite giving the world TV gems featuring powerful women such as Charlie’s Angels, Wonder Woman, and The Bionic Woman, the reality of women’s lives and human rights in 1970s America was very different. The National Organisation of Women (NOW), founded in 1966, had led the way in the development of women’s rights, but…
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Queerguru’s James Judd reviews ‘Making The Yuletide Gay : A Very Special Paul Lynde Christmas’
I’m sure everyone involved in this project would agree that MAKING THE YULETIDE GAY: A VERY SPECIAL PAUL LYNDE CHRISTMAS can be generously described as rough. Very rough. But we all like things a little rough now and again, and it’s scrappiness shouldn’t deter you from watching it. Bright spots abound. Taped in front of a…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews RUNS IN THE FAMILY a queer comedy from South Africa by Ian Gabriel and his trans son Gabe
Thanks to Nelson Mandela, South Africa has one of the best constitutions and legal rights frameworks for queer people globally. A nation’s queer human rights usually affects the tone of the film-making in that country. For example, queer film-making out of Muslim countries often contains far more angst-ridden themes than films from more…
