Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThe new Dutch film Single Street (aka Singel 39) which is the movie debut of TV director Frank Krom is labelled a rom-com but is technically not one in the traditional sense. When girl meets boy she is immediately put into the friend zone which is where she stays for the whole length of … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesLife seems to have been unchanged forever in this rather boring and isolated Dutch village, but little do its residents know that by the end of the sweltering summer that is about to start, nothing will ever be the same again. The story that unfolds through the eyes of teenage Annie or “Ms. Silent’ as … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThe real reason that Dutch filmmaker Maria Peters’ movie The Conductor came on Queerguru’s radar in the first place is that the secondary plot line centers on a trans man refreshingly played by the talented trans actor Scott Turner Schofield, This biopic is the heavily dramatized take on the true story of Antonia Brico … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesWhen Friet an impossibly perfect German exchange student comes to stay with teenage Eva and her family in their home in rural Holland, life as they know it changes almost beyond recognition. Up till then this dysfunctional family has somehow coasted along, but that was all before Friet fed them doubt, fear, insecurity and even … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesShakespeare was barely 30 years old and at the start of his career when he wrote Romeo and Juliet his great tragedy about the romance between two Italian youths from feuding families. During his lifetime it proved to Shakespeare’s most popular play …. along with Hamlet, and it is still one of his most … Continue reading