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Queerguru’s Jose Mayorga reviews ALIGNED a touching debut movie from Greek filmmaker Apollo Bakopoulos
TO GIVE THE GIFT OF YOUR TRUE SELF… A bird’s view of Greek ruins, several close-ups of a contemporary dancer in movement, and the lyrics of a song referring to wolves inside, howling, provide the tone for an intimate story of growth, self-love, assurance, and romance set in Athens and New York City. Aeneas…
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Queerguru’s Andrew Hebden reviews “‘The Incredibly Strange Rise and Fall of the World’s Wildest Cinema and How It Influenced A Mixed-Up Generation of Weirdos and Misfits”
Scala!!! Or to give it its full title ‘The Incredibly Strange Rise and Fall of the World’s Wildest Cinema and How It Influenced A Mixed-Up Generation of Weirdos and Misfits’ pretty much does what it says on the tin, with the kind of love and reverence that you can only have if you were…
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Queerguru’s Jose Mayorga reviews THE JUDGEMENT : the journey of a gay couple in love in homophobic Egypt
“Egypt, where to live between fantasy and reality almost doesn’t exist” The call for the Muslim prayer out loud in the streets of Alexandria, Egypt seems like the background music of this fictional dark tale of two young men in love. It is June 2020.Mo -Mohamed- (Junes Zahdi) and Hisham (Freddy Shahin)…
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Queerguru’s Andrew Hebden reviews ASOG that follows Jaya non-binary teacher and typhoon survivor, on a roadtrip to fame in the Philippines.
For some people, the description of this movie will read like a nonprofit funding application. It covers climate change, colonialism, poverty, and trans issues. It ticks a lot of progressive boxes. And that would be to completely miss that it is also an irreverent, and sometimes very beautiful mix of magical realism storytelling and…
