Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideA desperately unhappy Karen leaves her married home and her successful but slimy husband and with her small savings rents a scruffy room in a slum-like house in Bogota. Penniless and friendless and unable to find any work she resorts to pilfering from food stores and begging in the streets. Patricia, one of the other … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideAs Hollywood tries to ape Bollywood’s success stories, some leading lights of the Indian film industry are now making movies that are aimed just as much for a western audience as their home crowd. If it wasn’t for the setting and the language, you could actually mistakenly think you were watching an American indie production … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThe Cantone family pasta business in Italy is ready for some new blood. Dad is getting old and looking to his two grown up sons Antonio and Tommaso to take over so that he can retire. Tommaso wants no part if it as he wants to be a writer and return home to Rome to … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideLife always seems so relatively easy for attractive 20 & 30 year olds living in Manhattan and juggling love and friendship as they finally grow up. Sam, an aspiring writer, is on his way to an important meeting with an Editor when he becomes the temporary caretaker of a young African/American boy who has been … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideIn my continuing quest to catch up with American Cultural Icons that never featured anywhere in my Brit upbringing, I discovered this wee gem of a documentary from 2006 about 5 octogenarian ex-chorus dancing girls from Harlem who are still dancing professional. The Silver Belles may be falling apart physically and ‘can’t remember shit’, but … Continue reading
