Queerguru’s pick of MUST SEE FILMS @ GAZE: Dublin’s LGBTQ + Film Fest
We never need much of an excuse to visit Dublin, Ireland one of our very favorite cities around the globe, so makes the latest edition of GAZE International LGBT Film Festival a must-do event Founded in 1992, it has become Ireland’s largest LGBT film event and the country’s biggest LGBT gathering aside from Dublin … Continue reading
Queerguru reviews PRIDE when the UK gay community and the Miners got together to defeat Thatcher
In the summer of 1984 when London’s annual Gay Pride Pride was taking place Mark Ashton (Ben Schnetzer) a young passionate activist (who eerily looked like Morrissey from The Smiths) decided that he wanted to form a Gay & Lesbian group to help support the country’s distressed and embattled miners. U.K. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher … Continue reading
Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews LAST SUMMER OF NATHAN LEE about to have its World Premiere at @CAAMFest in SF
Last Summer of Nathan Lee follows 18-year-old Nathan who has just discovered that he has an incurable brain cancer. He asks his best friend Dash to document his remaining time alive which he avows to live with passion. Based on real-life events, writer/director Quentin Lee’s film is both a coming-of-age story as well as … Continue reading
Queen Charlotte’s Story : a BRIDGERTON prequel
It wasn’t just the men we fell for in the Netflix/Shondaland extraordinary wonderful period costume drama Bridgerton, although creator Chris Van Dusen did give us an exceptional selection: Regé-Jean Page, Jonathan Bailey, Luke Thompson, Rupert Young Ned Porteous and Julian Ovenden etc etc There were also two very striking women chav=racters playing their own … Continue reading
Queen of Amsterdam aka Chez Nous
This delightful feel-good Dutch gay movie has blended elements of ‘Mission Impossible’ with those of ‘La Cage Aux Follies’ that results in a very camp and decidedly old-fashioned jewel-heist comic caper. It all starts at the Chez Nous Bar in Voetboogstraat Alley in the center of Amsterdam where Bertie is the reigning Drag Queen on the … Continue reading