Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesTrans filmmaker Lyel Kash’s directorial/writing debut Death and Bowling that is having its world premiere at OUTFEST Film Fest in LA is an extraordinary achievement. Not just because in a groundbreaking move Kash cast all the roles in the movie with transgender actors, but his spiritual drama gives a very personal insight which we … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesPanama’s Official Submission for Best Foreign Picture Oscar is Arturo Montenegro’s ‘Everybody Changes’ about how a middle -class family survives after the father decides to transition into a woman. Federico (Arantxa de Juan) is a happily married businessman with a wife and three sons living in a very small Panamanian town. His wife Carol … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesAlthough it’s over 30 years since the AIDS pandemic decimated the queer community it’s still a very raw memory for so many of us. In the new millennium, we were inundated with fictional movies on the subject, and the majority of them were appalling. Sensationalized, morbid, alarmist, and even excuses to promote rampant homophobia. … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesWe have to confess that as Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato’s exhilarating 2000 film, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, is one of our favorite queer documentaries of all time we approached the new film with the same title with such trepidation. Thankfully it turned out to be groundless as although this feature drama written … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesIt’s so very rare that we have the pleasure of watching a real flawless movie, but The Outfit is as near perfect as it gets. It’s the directing debut of Brit screenwriter Academy Award winner Graham Moore (The Imitation Game) and stars Brit Academy Award winner ….. and one of the greatest actors of … Continue reading