Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThis Eden is hardly the biblical ‘Garden of God’ but a small tacky Bar in Tokyo’s Shinjuku district where some very enthusiastic but totally untalented Drag Queens put on Shows. The opening scenes of the movie are in the Bar where Miro the frustrated Choreographer is trying to put this clumsy set of performers through … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideSet in Tehran in 1958 (when the Shah was on the throne of what was still known as Persia) Nasser Ali Khan an obsessive and brilliant musician is driven to suicidal despair when his wife smashes up his irreplaceable violin in a fit of (justified) pique. He very melodramatically takes to his bed for 8 … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesPolish writer/director Tomascz Wasilewski’s second feature film is a dark tragic love story that you immediately sense from the opening scenes that is doomed. Although it is Poland’s first ever Gay movie, it is so much more a story about the search for one’s identity and about being accepted for one’s own true self and … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesPoor sixteen year old David is really on his own. His father has left the family home to live with his mistress which means his alcoholic mother now stops hiding the drink and just gets off her face every day; his elder brother moves out and in with his girlfriend, and his younger sister never comes home. … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThis is the rather gritty story of a hip very young gay couple in Chicago’s ‘Boystown’ coming to terms with how tough one’s first love can be. Kurt is a small time drug dealer who supplies pot to his peers, whilst Paul his boyfriend of two years has a dead-end job in a local grocery … Continue reading
