Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesMovies are often stories adapted from a stage drama, a novel, or a memoir but this is probably the first time we have come across based on a string of Twitter posts. This was the story of a very unusual road trip in 2015 by A’Ziah-Monae “Zola” King that was subsequently detailed in a … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideWhether this post-pandemic time is suitable for this rather wonderful black comedy that takes aim at the hypocrisy of funerals, seemed irrelevant. This deliciously funny satire is after all the work of Macha Colón, a character created by the artist Gisela Rosario Ramos and inspired by the iconic actor and drag queen Divine. In … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThe only way a stage drama works as a movie is when it is filmed as is, and in the theater. Or the playwright can be persuaded to rewrite/adapt it, especially for the screen for as a different medium it requires different scripts. Actor turned writer/director James Andrew Walsh did neither of these and … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesWhile the Miami head office of Queerguru’s international media conglomerate basked in 75 degrees this week, our London outhouse was caught in a surprise April snow shower. So we had to ask ourselves ‘are we really ready for LA in Summertime?’. Turns out we were thirstier than spring-breakers in covid lockdown. Let’s start by saying … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesWhen you reach the end of the road you are on, what can you do? There are two answers, you stop or change direction. In Cloris Leachman’s final film made prior to her death, both these alternates are explored, and the poignancy is inescapable. Leachman plays Grams, the aging grandmother grown tired, frail, and distanced … Continue reading
