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Queerguru reviews this years Lifetime’s LGBTQ+ Holiday movie ‘A CHRISTMAS TREASURE “
Now that both Hallmark and Lifetime TV have discovered that gay people exist…… and even watch TV, they want to include us in their traditional overdose of Holiday movies. Lifetime got the edge with their first one in 2021 with The Christmas Set helmed by a gay director and starring a real-life gay couple…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews Nina Menkes’ ‘Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power’ which investigates the politics of cinematic shot design
Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power is filmmaker Nina Menkes’ thought-provoking analysis of the sexual politics in (heterosexual, I should add) cinematic shot design. Part documentary, part student lecture, and using scenes from dozens of our favorite movies as examples, Menkes successfully argues that shot design perpetuates sexism and other ills across the world. Movies such…
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Queerguru’s José Mayorga is ‘captivated” with THE DAMNED DON’T CRY (Les damnés ne pleurent pas)
British Moroccan writer-director Fyzal Boulifa tells the story with style, of a mother-son in a difficult relationship while moving from Casablanca to Tangier, and once there, from place to place with their belongings in bags, sharing a mattress on the floor to sleep in tiny rooms or even in the street. The mother…
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Queerguru reviews Hallmarks very first gay Christmas Movie THE HOLIDAY SITTER
Hallmark TV is basking in some glowing press notices this morning because they went gay! Finally. However, before any panic sets in we should tell you that the Channel finally their festive season has caught up with its rivals Lifetime TV who produced The Chrismas Set UP in 2021 which starred Ben Lewis and…
