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Queerguru’s Jose Mayorga reviews CASSANDRO the story of the gay amateur wrestler who rose to international stardom
Mexican Lucha libre is the most spectacular of sports and the most sporty of spectacles…and was declared an Intangible Cultural Heritage in Mexico City in 2018. Based on Greco-Roman wrestling, it is a mixture of sport and theatre (dance and performance in the ring). The Lucha Libre wrestlers are well-known and among the…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews SCRAPPER a fine piece of British social realism with rising star Harris Dickinson
Scrapper is a gentle new British film debut written and directed by Charlotte Regan. Twelve-year-old Georgie (bright newcomer Lola Campbell) has recently been orphaned by the death of her single mother. To avoid going into care, she convinces social services and her school that a fake uncle, ‘Winston Churchill’, is looking after her. She…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews Helen Mirren’s award-worthy performance in GOLDA
Golda is a tense new drama profiling Golda Meir, Israel’s only female prime minister, and her actions during the 19 days of the Yom Kippur War in 1973. Starring the brilliant Helen Mirren as Golda and Liev Schreiber as US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, we follow Meir as she navigates overwhelming odds, a…
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Queerguru’s Jose Mayorga reviews The Latent Image a British queer thriller
A fiction into a fiction where strangers share time and space, not knowing their intentions. A log cabin in the woods, a typewriter machine, a handy camera film, and sharp objects complement each other in this tale of sexual desire and danger. Ben (Joshua Tonks) is a writer in need of insight to tell…
