thriller
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews LONE STAR BULL a dramatic thriller starring Luke MacFarlane
Queer human rights are never earned permanently. They are always under threat of attack from wrong ´uns, never more so than right now with the various right-wing fanatic governments around the world, including Trump’s Republican Party. Sometimes it feels as though we are heading back to the homophobic 1980s Reagan era. This makes director…
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We are still waiting for François Ozon’s brilliant new movie THE STRANGER to be released in the US
Any new film from the French queer auteur François Ozon is a major event for the Queerguru team. He is considered one of the most important directors in the new “New Wave” in French cinema, along with Jean-Paul Civeyrac, Philippe Ramos, and Yves Caumon We have been following his work, since his Fassbinder adaptation Water Drops on Burning Rocks (Gouttes d’eau sur…
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Queerguru’s Jose Mayorgas reviews “THE PLAGUE ” the award-winning debut from Charlie Poliger
This is the debut feature film of writer-director Charlie Polinger, with the perfect casting of Rebecca Dealy, and the collaboration of cinematographer Steven Breckon, sound designer Damien Volpe and composer Johan Lenox, which makes this feature film on boyhood at a water polo camp in the Summer of 2003 an enthralling experience to watch. 12-13…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews After The Hunt, a thought-provoking psychological drama by Luca Guadagnino, starring Julia Roberts, Ayo Edebiri. Andrew Garfield. + Chloe Sevigny
America’s Ivy League universities have always been a hotbed of intellectual activity and energy. The close concentration of thousands of supremely intelligent people of different incomes, races, generations, and motives can have positive and negative consequences. Yale University philosophy professor Alma (Julia Roberts) experiences this in After The Hunt, a thought-provoking, psychological drama by director-of-the-moment…
