Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesWhen you reach the end of the road you are on, what can you do? There are two answers, you stop or change direction. In Cloris Leachman’s final film made prior to her death, both these alternates are explored, and the poignancy is inescapable. Leachman plays Grams, the aging grandmother grown tired, frail, and distanced … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesWes Hurley aka Vasili Naumenko is a queer performance artist/filmmaker and a stalwart of Seattle’s burgeoning drag and cabaret scene who has finally told his life story in film. Well, technically this is the second time around as his short film Little Potato did that too and picked up some 20 + awards for … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesFirebird is an enormously satisfying and complete film. It tells a full tale of life, and love and loss from its beginning right up to an end that could never need or want a sequel. Peeter Rebane‘s story of two Soviet military recruits, a pilot officer and a private, falling in love on a military base … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesIn the opening minutes of this powerful documentary we hear a voice that says ‘ we were young, working-class and poor: we were dykes NOT lesbians.” It is a statement of fact but there is a slight edge to it which we take as a warning not to misinterpret who this group of queer women … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesWarning: This film contains penetration of social bubbles, unsanitized hands, and explicit bare facing. It is for fantasy purposes only. In Daniel Sanchez Lopez’s Boy Meets Boy two gay men meet each other on the dancefloor in Berlin after 24 hours of clubbing. At first, it’s the hazy intimacy of drugs that brings them together … Continue reading
