Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThis ingenious documentary follows the most unlikely man ever to be a detective, and his ham-fisted staff, as they tackle a wide ranging and often-bizarre set of cases. One minute they are tracking down counterfeit shampoo, the next following a cheating husband, and then a brutal triple murderer. In between all this they find time … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideOnce in a while even movies can dispense with its usual stereotypes and can tell us an old story with a fresh set of characters. This debut feature from filmmaker Kevin Asche is a drug smuggling story where the baddies are neither African Americans or Italian Mafia but actually Hassidic Jews, and evidently its all … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideSo here’s a story that I can relate too personally: how the course of true love was knocked off-kilter because one of the lovers was American and the other a Brit and they were the subject to all the red-tape of immigration restrictions. The fact that one of them overstayed their visa didn’t help their … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideIn 2004 French filmmakers Renaud Barret and Florent de la Tullaye were making a series of short films about music in The Congo when they stumbled across a street Band made up of 4 paraplegics. These musicians were living in a squalid shelter for disabled people at the time, reliant on their make shift hand powered tricycles to … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideRinco, a young Japanese girl, runs away from home (and when you catch sight of her mother you soon know why), and she is bought up by her odd but nice grandmother who instills in her a real passion for cooking. So much so that by the time Granny dies she scrapes together enough money … Continue reading
