Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesErin C.Buckley‘s sparking new queer web series PLATONIC is about the trials of searching for love and when you are a thirty-year-old something-single in Brooklyn Olive (Summer Spiro) is a lesbian and Billy (Ryan King) is straight and her best friend and their brief (and always off-kilter) romances fit neatly into each 5 min … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesCéline Sciammawho has already given us Water Lillies, Tomboy, Girlhood and Being 17. confirms her position as one of the leading queer filmmakers with this her latest, and finest film to date. Portrait of A Lady on Fire is an historical drama set in the 19th Century that tells of a forbidden affair between … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThere is nothing more sadistically funny than watching the opening scenes of a movie witnessing the protagonist dumping her girlfriend of five years. She is just the last new recruit into the ever expanding group of ‘exes’ that Elsie has managed to accumulate over the years. In fact Elsie is so experienced at the whole … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesWhen 16 year old Cyd (Jessie Pinnick) manages to have yet another falling out with her father, he decides to pack her off to stay with her Aunt in Chicago for a few weeks to give everyone a break. Aunt Miranda (Rebecca Spencer) is a famous author and quite the local celebrity who lives a … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesMartin Scorcese’s profile on Fran Lebowitz is no ordinary documentary. After 90 minutes of essentially listening to this quick-witted brilliant observationist with her razor sharp tongue spend forth on some of her favorite bugbears, we actually learn very little about the woman behind all these rapidly fired opinions. By filming her in conversation in … Continue reading