Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThis overwhelmingly sad and somewhat dispiriting movie’s powerful narrative about an African slave is actually based on a true story. Twelve year old Malia is abducted from her mountain village in Sudan by Arab militia and sold into slavery to a vile woman in Khartoum who treats her inhumanly and even beats her for actually … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideAxun’s ex son-in-law Mikel is rushed to hospital after a tragic car accident and as he is completely alone , she feels obliged to visit him. Whilst there she meets Maite who’s visiting her brother, also in a coma, and suddenly realizes that this is her best friend from high school. In fact the two … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideLaura’s life is beyond bleak. To try to escape her unspoken troubled past she moves from her family home deep in the countryside to her own somewhat desolate apartment in Mexico City. Desperately lonely and completely friendless and working as a journalist from home, her whole life is defined by the four walls which confine … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThis unlikely film is about an unlikely Punk musician who was an eccentric and wild performer and whose music with its bizarre lyrics was an unforgettable presence on the Brit music scene until his untimely death at the age of 57 in 2000. Ian Dury’s childhood polio my have left him physically disabled but it seemed … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideAfter young Johann Wolfgang von Goethe fails his Doctorial Examination his father dispatches him to some godforsaken suburban town so that he can knuckle down and become a Lawyer like him. Whilst there he falls in love with a pretty but penniless girl in the next village and when he is spurned because she chooses another … Continue reading
