Who is Glenn Dunks
Glenn Dunks is an award-winning freelance writer, critic and festival programmer, focusing on film, the arts, and travel who's riginally from Melbourne, Australia, but currently based in New York City. On this website you will find assorted links and other work of mine as well as blog posts on assorted topics. Click here for more. If you would like to contact me about anything including work commissions please contact me at glenndunks@gmail.com
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Tag Archives: Gay and Queer Cinema
You’re Killing Me a Scary, Gorgeous Good Time
This review originally appeared on Same Same. “He’s not scary, he’s gorgeous.” In another movie, a darker more serious movie, a line like this by George about his new mysterious boyfriend Joe may be cause of interrogation. A moment of … Continue reading
This Film is a ‘Nasty Baby’
This review was original published at Same Same. If you’re unaware of the works of Sebastian Silva, then Nasty Baby is probably a good place to start. His best film yet, and certainly his most accessible, it’s a wonderfully funny … Continue reading
Posted in Film, LGBTIQ
Tagged Gay and Queer Cinema, Kristen Wiig, New York, review, Sebastian Silva
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‘Tab Hunter Confidential’
This review was originally published on Same Same. What famous Hollywood actors might we be seeing documentaries about in 40 or 50 years’ time discussing how they kept themselves in the closet for fear of losing out on a career … Continue reading
Angry as a ‘Cut Snake’
This review was originally published on Same Same. The crime drama has become the de facto Australian genre of choice. Whether we like it or not, local film and television creators are infatuated with the sordid goings on of criminals … Continue reading
Posted in LGBTIQ, Uncategorized
Tagged Australian Cinema, Gay and Queer Cinema, review, Sullivan Stapleton, Tony Ayres
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Putting on the Ritz with Magic Mike XXL
This review is reworked from the original featured at SameSame. Channing Tatum is back with his buddies – and minus his shirt – and they’re going on the road in Magic Mike XXL. Let’s start for a moment with that … Continue reading
Posted in Film, LGBTIQ
Tagged Channing Tatum, Gay and Queer Cinema, Jada Pinkett-Smith, Joe Manganiello, Magic Mike, Matt Bomer
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54: The Director’s Cut Rises Like a Phoenix
This review was originally published on The Film Experience. The history behind Mark Christopher’s wannabe decadent, sexually-charged disco epic 54 is almost as interesting as the real life nightclub it uses as its setting. Originally conceived as a disco-themed coming-of-age … Continue reading
Posted in Film
Tagged Director's Cut, Disco, Gay and Queer Cinema, Music, Musicals, New York, queer, review, Ryan Phillippe
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The Boys of Summer… Suddenly, Last Summer.
I wonder if it’s for the best that the trilogy of acclaimed Tennessee Williams plays of the 1950s were all directed by different people, lest their power with themes of the repressed queer, simmering madness, and familial tensions be put … Continue reading
Burning Blue Runs Cold
Subtlety is apparently not in writer/director DMW Greer’s repertoire if his debut feature, Burning Blue, is any indication. This is a well-intentioned drama about the development of and eventual ramifications of a relationship between two men in the American Navy … Continue reading
Hit Me With Your Best Shot: The Village People in Can’t Stop the Music
Infamous bad movie Can’t Stop the Music is perhaps one of the strangest pictures ever made. Watching it today, whether for the first time or the seventh, it is impossible to look at it without the filter of dated camp. … Continue reading
Posted in Film, LGBTIQ, Music
Tagged 1980s Cinema, Gay and Queer Cinema, Hit Me With Your Best Shot, Musicals
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Foreplay and Desire in Hawaii
Marco Berger’s Hawaii is essentially 100 minutes of mental foreplay. A game between two men filled less with heated physical battles of strength and stamina, but rather secret glances, escalating desire, and heated eroticism. The kind of temperature rising sport that … Continue reading
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