Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideRWD’s take on some of the very best (and sadly a couple of the worse) movies from this year’s SUNDANCE FESTIVAL and hopefully (!) most of the good ones will hit your screens later in the year. Probably not your local Multi-plex but at the Art House/Indie Theater near you. Bethann Hardison is an African … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideIt’s tough watching Michael Glawogger’s documentary without dwelling (possibly too much) on one’s own moral viewpoint on prostitution. I’m not sure why he made the film even, apart from the fact that the women were there plying their trade anyway so why shouldn’t he record this? And at the end of this voyeuristic viewing, … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideIn 2003 the Israeli Government started construction on a Separation Fence in the Occupied West Bank BUT instead of going along the border line of the area, it cut right through Palestinian land. So much so, its planned route would have isolated six villages that would have then become completely land-locked. One of them was Budrus, and … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideI know I was laughing far too hard at the opening scenes of this wickedly funny comedy because from the word go I knew the plot was horribly un-pc. This is a Serbian movie that poked fun about widespread homophobia but also indulged in racial slurs between all the different peoples that once made up … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThis bittersweet comedy from Italian writer/director/actor Gianni Di Gregio is almost a sequel of his sleeper hit of 2008, the truly delightful ‘MID AUGUST LUNCH’. In that film Gianni was a 60-year-old man living alone with his demanding octogenarian tiny mother who finds himself the custodian of several other old ladies who are dumped upon … Continue reading
