Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThis week we see the opening of the 28th Edition of SEATTLE QUEER FILM FESTIVAL with the theme QUEER JOY IS CINEMATIC with screenings and events exploring what ‘queer joy’ means to members of the LGBTQ+ community. As we have come to expect from this Fest, the diverse slate of queer cinema hails from … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesAfter preadolescent Andy (Emilio Puente) sees his mother gets fatally shot in a random robbery, he is sent to live on the country estate of his paternal grandmother (the wonderful Carmen Maura) who he has never met before. She is rather cold and awkward with him and brushes off any enquiries of the whereabouts … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThis intriguing coming of age movie is set in Lanzenkirchen in Lower Austria, the home town of the writer/director Monja Art, so it is probably safe to say that some of the trials and tribulations of the teenagers involved in this story are drawn from her own life experiences. The problems that seem to vex this one … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThis gritty cutting-edge drama is a part of a new genre from contemporary queer filmmakers that show another side of gay life. ‘Shank’ is no cozy affair; void of the cliché plot devices typical of a coming-of-age story, this is a film that is refreshingly shocking, very explicit, and painful at parts, but … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThis is another first for Queerguru. We are publishing TWO reviews for one very exceptional production. Russell T Davies’ IT’S A SIN is nothing less than a queer masterpiece, so we asked Andrew Hebden one of London based Contributing Editors to give us his own take on it too. If at this stage of … Continue reading