Ris Fatah
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews ‘ELDORADO Everything the Nazis hate’ on Netflix
Berlin has long been a queer mecca. As far back as the 1920’s Berlin had about 80 queer nightlife venues, including the glittering belle of the ball – the fabulous cabaret club, Eldorado. The club was awash with lust, sequins, cocktails, drag queens, and regular performers such as Marlene Dietrich and Josephine Baker.…
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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 Ris Fatah reviews Ira Sach’s PASSAGES a very human story of a couple in love but one of whom also wants more.
Passages is a sexy, intense drama starring Franz Rogowski Great Freedom) the brilliant Ben Whishaw (An English Scandal) and Adele Exarchopoulos (Blue Is The Warmest Color) A chaotic and often brutal study of a modern relationship, Passages is set in an avant-garde, young Paris. Intense German film director Tomas (Rogowski) is married to…
