Arts & Entertainment

The only chance that Joey (Lola Kirke) has of improving her life choices is by enlisting in the Army.  They at least will not only let her see the world but also fund her entry into college too. She is a recent high school graduate in a economically depressed small Pennsylvania town, and with jobs extremely scarce, she gets low-paying work with a dairy farmer looking after his herd of cattle and helping out at his ice cream stand.   It is whilst she is working there one night that she gets picked up by Rayna (Breeda Wool) an attractive and flirtatious […]

Canadian filmmaker Stephen Dunn’s tale of a young gay man’s coming of age story is one of the most imaginative and insightful movies in that genre we have seen in quite a while. Set in his native Newfoundland it’s the story of Oscar (Jack Fulton) who at the start is a relatively happy 8 year old whose seemingly idyllic life is suddenly brutally interrupted when his parents announce they are going to get  a divorce.  His mother (Joanne Kelly) is moving out which makes the situation even worse for Oscar who is then fobbed off with a gift of a hamster intended as some […]

After Saar Maoz an utterly charming 40 year old man served as a paratrooper in the Israeli Army, he was kicked out of the Kibbutz where he had been living with his large extended family for being gay, so he moved to London to begin again and look for the love of his life.  Now 18 years later, his ‘forever’ boyfriend left after three years and the very untamed man that took his place lead Saar down a wild and indulgent path which resulted him being diagnosed HIV+. With his conservative religious family back in Israel struggling with their very judgmental opinions […]

Literally just a stone’s throw from the corridors of power in our nation’s capital, lies a whole area of Washington that is completely alien territory to most Americans. Seeing it portrayed in this startling powerful new documentary, you find that you have to pinch yourself to remember what is being played out here is not some fictional dramatized TV program, but very real life. This area is home to hundreds of african/american and latino gay and transgender youth who have to survive in a culture which has one of the highest rates of anti-gay violence in the whole country, but who […]

The legendary gay activist and writer Larry Kramer always takes great pains to state that how as a community we need our history ….. and he is not just talking about the tome he published last year The American People. It’s a topic that is very dear to queerguru’s heart especially now that several of the struggles for equality have come to fruition, and there is a real danger that some our new freedoms will make us somewhat complacent and start to forget the fearless brave pioneers who made them all possible. This new wonderfully uplifting documentary from filmmakers Jonah Markowitz and Tracy Wares is […]

  Jonathan (Jannis Niewöhner)  is a broody blonde boy who has taken over the responsibility for running the family farm in a remote farm in rural Germany which he balances with caring for Berghard his very sick father (André Hennicke) who is dying  of cancer. The two have never been close and have an uneasy relationship and even now that his days are obviously numbered, the father still refuses to tell Jonathan about his mother who died when he was a mere boy.  Now 24 years  old Jonathan is about to accidentally uncover some of the very many secrets that his father, […]