Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesBy all accounts director Joe Mantello has surrounded himself with a superb cinematographer (Bill Pope) and production designer (Judy Becker) and three Art Directors (Kiel Gookin, Annie Simeone and Alexander Wei) to ensure the stunning look of this new adaptation of Mart Crowley’s queer classic The Boys In The Band. With its all … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesWhen Friet an impossibly perfect German exchange student comes to stay with teenage Eva and her family in their home in rural Holland, life as they know it changes almost beyond recognition. Up till then this dysfunctional family has somehow coasted along, but that was all before Friet fed them doubt, fear, insecurity and even … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThe only way a stage drama works as a movie is when it is filmed as is, and in the theater. Or the playwright can be persuaded to rewrite/adapt it, especially for the screen for as a different medium it requires different scripts. Actor turned writer/director James Andrew Walsh did neither of these and … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesIt’s only natural that the more people complain that a film is greatly offensive, the more we get intrigued enough to want to see it. Even more so when the whiners are the ultra-conservative religious who are up in arms about a comedy satire group that put their spin on celebrating the Baby Jesus’s … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesMargaret is a big lumpy mess. She’s arrived in Manhattan and is homeless and jobless and has decided to resort to being a hooker to make ends meet. The trouble is that this overweight unkempt lesbian seems to have little experience in sexual matters let alone trying to make a living from providing a service … Continue reading