Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideAlmost 40 years ago before our TV screens were over-run with excessive trivial drivel that, without a single hint of irony, is called Reality TV, there were The Louds, ‘An American Family’. Documentary filmmaker Craig Gilbert had seduced this seemingly near perfect nuclear family into allowing his film crew to set up cameras all around … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesEnrique (Esai Morales) returns home to the Bronx after a lengthy spell in prison to discover that Angela (Judy Reyes) his wife is distant, to say the least, and his son Michael (Harmony Santana) is now a transgender woman and known as Vanessa. None of this sits well with headstrong Enrique who views these changes … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideI love crazy women, and Joyce McKinney, formerly known as ‘Little Miss Perfect’ turned out to be Madder than the Hatter. This hilarious documentary from Oscar-Winning filmmaker Errol Morris (‘The Fog of War’) was a sheer delight from start to finish. When a blowzy blonde 60+ year old woman looks straight to camera in the … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThis movie really is a trip in more ways than one. British TV star and indie movie actor Steve Coogan, playing himself, is commissioned by ‘The Observer Newspaper’ to do a mini tour of some of the fine new restaurants that have sprouted up in unlikely parts of the North of England and to write … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideIf you have ever had an unrequited love, especially one in your (distant) youth then this wonderfully witty tongue-in-cheek movie from the remarkable multi-talented Xavier Dolan will really appeal to you. The story is of a love triangle. Twenty-year-old best friends Marie and Francis spot Nicolas, a stunning Adonis, at a dinner party, and they … Continue reading
