Ris Fatah
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews Move Ya Body: The Birth of House, a compelling journey back to queer black 1980s Chicago.
Move Ya Body: The Birth of House traces the evolution of House music through the eyes of one of its creators, Chicago native Vince Lawrence, founder of Trax Records and creator of the first house track launched, Z Factor’s 1984 Fantasy. Director Elegance Bratton has created a gem of a music documentary. Part social history…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews Love Me Tender, a beautiful, poignant French drama. Unmissable.
The raw brutality of a vicious child custody battle is laid bare in Love Me Tender, director Anna Cazenave Cambert’s adaptation of Constance Debre’s 2020 novel. Premiering at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Love Me Tender is based on Debre’s real-life experiences of being a French lawyer turned bohemian author who loses custody of her…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews 3670, a thought-provoking tale of a shy North Korean gay defector’s assimilation into Seoul’s vibrant queer life.
South Korea has a vibrant queer scene, particularly in buzzing Seoul. The mainstream society remains fairly conservative, though, and many queer people remain in the closet there. 3670, a new drama by director Joonho Park, explores this from the perspective of Kim Cheol-jun (You-hyun Cho), a handsome North Korean defector who escaped to South Korea…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews THE SESSION MAN , a brilliant documentary about one of rock’s great unsung heros.
What do Sympathy for the Devil by The Rolling Stones, The First Cut is the Deepest by P P Arnold and Jealous Guy by John Lennon have in common? The answer is that they all contain iconic piano riffs by one of the most gifted pianists ever, Nicky Hopkins. You might not have heard of…
