Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideFor Queerguru, British satirist Chris Morris’s feature film debut FOUR LIONS was one of the very best movies at Sundance in 2010. This black comedy about an inept group of British Pakistani terrorists pushed any hint of good taste out of the window and stunned the Park City crowd onto silence. It was not … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideFor his debut feature film L.A. based artist and writer Pablo Valencia used his rather deranged imagination to risk making an extraordinary innovative black comedy that he almost manages to pull off. This story is of an aspiring filmmaker called Shelby who has more than her fair share of emotional issues and substance abuse and who talks her … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guide‘Cowboys’ is an oddball absurdist Croatian comedy that was such a hit at home it became the country’s official submission for an Academy Award Best Foreign Picture Nomination last year. It didn’t win anything but it did at least show the world what extraordinary filmmakers they are, and what a glorious bizarre sense of humor … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideIn 1998 I was in my hotel room in NY checking out Village Voice when I came across news that some Distributors had disowned Todd Solonz’s new movie ‘Happiness’. I’m not sure if it was the rape, pedophilia, suicide and murder or the bizarre sexual phone caller that had particularly upset them, but once I read … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThis rather wonderfully insane movie is about 5 bumbling idiotic Moslem would-be terrorists, with a combined IQ of about 100, who decide that they want to be martyrs for the ‘Cause.’ They can’t agree as to exactly what that is or indeed how they should go about it, but they are intent on making a … Continue reading