Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesAs part of a compelling trend to document crucial parts of the history of the growth of the LGBT community comes this timely, and rather excellent, biopic on the life and work of one of the most influential and celebrated figures of twentieth century gay culture. Touko Laaksonen (Pekka Strang) was a middle-class Finnish Army Officer who … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThis shocking and rather provocative movie … the sophomore feature from Austrian actor turned director Klaus Händl deservedly won the prestigious Teddy Award for Best LGBT Feature Film at this year’s Berlin International Film Festival. It is therefore surprising that since then the reviews have been lukewarm at best, and even odder that it is not the … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesEver since Ang Lee’s earth-shatteringly beautiful ‘Brokeback Mountain’ we have had a thing about cowboys. Just as in that movie when Jack Twist says to Ennis ‘I wish I knew how to quit you’, we cannot stop yearning for a rugged man in spurs on horseback. Or in fact any type of Cowboys, including the ones … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesSince it produced one of the world’s first ever explicitly gay films called ‘Different From The Others’ back in 1919, Germany has been at the forefront of making really good LGBT movies. They are usually very sensual with a penchant for really hot looking men but all with highly original and compelling plots. Here then … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThe sophomore film from writer/director/producer Trae Briers is a story about how a casual meeting between two very different men turned into a melodrama that not one of them could have predicted. Michael (Austin Miller) is a highly successful corporate lawyer who lives in a luxurious villa on the beach in Malibu with Ashley (Tiffany … Continue reading