Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThe latest film from queer auteur Pedro Almodovar, Spain’s most influential award-winning filmmaker, sees him reunited with actor Antonio Banderas yet again, but also a very welcome return to a homoerotic theme that were so prevalent in his early work. This is the story of a successful but tormented filmmaker Salvador Mallo (played by … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThis debut feature film from German writer/director Kai Kreuser is a compelling study of a power struggle between two solitary men who need each other for very different reasons. It starts on train platform where using hookup apps on their phones Lars (Nikolaus Benda) a wealthy German picks up Waseem (Renato Schuch) a Syrian … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThis latest queer movie from Chilean filmmaker Alberto Fuguet takes a very fine line between sexual fantasy and actual pornography . It’s the story of young Hector (Gerardo Torres Rodríguez) who leaves his rural him in Hermosillo for the bright lights of Mexico City where he has hopes of being chosen to pose naked … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesFrom a very conservative South Africa comes this very provocative full-frontal queer short film written and directed by Luiz DeBarros back in 1995 It’s a psychological thriller that explores a tense abusive relationship between a gay man and his childhood bully. From the opening scene when the naked bully is tied to a chair, … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesAfter Brian Jordan Alvarez made his delightful web series The Gay and Wondrous Life of Caleb Gallo, and before he hit the mainstream playing Jack’s new husband Estefan Gloria in Will and Grace he created this rather compelling love story in 2017. Alvarez wrote, directed, edited, starred in and even wrote the some of … Continue reading
