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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
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- How is it nearly May and I am sweating like a pig on this morning commute. There are worse things than nice weather, but what is happening?
- Scrolling through my Insta feed and it's all people I know and then eventually the algorithms stop and it's all just semi-naked men.
- @ Fifth and sixth seasons are so good, filled with a lot of brilliance.
- Watched the finale of GIRLS and thought it an appropriate end, actually. The quietness of it appealed to me. It's ideas felt relevant.
- @ I definitely think it improves after a six episode stretch. It ends excellently.
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Category Archives: LGBTIQ
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
Pet Shop Boys’ Avant-Garde Anti-Thatcher Refrain: It Couldn’t Happen Here
The Pet Shop Boys’ 1993 album, Very, is identified as their unofficial “coming out” record by fans given its musical and visual stylisation, lyrical content, and the fact that lead singer Neil Tennant had recently spoken publicly of his sexuality … Continue reading
When it Rains it Pours: Gay Cinema Round-Up
It’s rare that a fan of LGBT cinema has a bounty of options that allows someone such as myself to say “skip this and see that.” Pickings are usually so slim at any given time that gay audiences especially who … Continue reading
Posted in Film, LGBTIQ Tagged Documentaries, French Cinema, Gay and Queer Cinema, James Franco, Middle Eastern Cinema, Polish Cinema, Reviews Leave a comment
I Am Divine is Divine, but no Madness
True story: I once came up with an idea to make a documentary on Divine simply because I thought the title Shit-Eating Grin was too good to pass up. Naturally, my complete and utter inability to do anything related to … Continue reading
Posted in Film, LGBTIQ Tagged Documentaries, Drag, John Waters and Divine, queer, Reviews 2 Comments
Kill Your Darlings is Out of the Closet, but Not Outside the Box
For a film that goes out of its way time and time again to tell the audience that its protagonist was a pioneering wunderkind who helped revolutionise an artform and thought outside the box, John Krokidas’ Kill Your Darlings is … Continue reading
Concussion Hits Like a Blow to the Head
It’s perhaps appropriate that Stacie Passon titled her debut feature Concussion. It’s a film that deals with the workings of the brain in bruising ways that many in the recently expanding lexicon of LGBT cinema don’t even attempt. Much like … Continue reading
James Franco and Travis Mathews Blur Sex and Violence, Fact and Fiction
Is Interior. Leather Bar a documentary? Is it a docu-drama? Is it a mockumentary? It will probably tickle director James Franco pink to see his film cause such a bout of frustration amongst viewers, but this vague ambiguity takes away from … Continue reading
Posted in Film, LGBTIQ Tagged 1980s Cinema, Al Pacino, Gay and Queer Cinema, James Franco 3 Comments