Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideIt feels like life has turned upside down when you are watching yet another smooth Wall Street operator perpetuate a multi-million fraud to save his own bacon, yet somehow even as he digs in deeper, you actually want him to get away with it. Robert Miller, the suave debonair banker in this instance, is also cheating on his … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideWhen Nelson persuaded Marcela his girlfriend to move from Bolivia to Madrid he promised her a life full of roses. Literally. His dream was to set up their own Florist shop and make their fortune and live happily ever after. The reality is that they hire a team of scavengers to raid the town’s garbage dump for discarded … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideIt’s so hard not to think of Sylvia Plath when you watch this heart-wrenching biopic of the celebrated but deeply troubled South African poet Ingrid Jonker as both of then took their own lives at a young age. Plath was just 30 when she poisoned herself in 1963, and Jonker drowned herself two years later … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThis unexpected and rather remarkable new film from first time writer/director David Lambert (that I discovered by accident) realistically scrutinizes the intimate details of the rise and fall of an edgy gay relationship, devoid of stereotypes. It premiered at Cannes Film Festival during the Critics Week (picking upan Award) and most of the Reviewers then made a point … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideYoung Bubbs needs to up sticks and leave his small coastal town if he is ever to live his own life. He still lives with his embittered mother Mary who is obsessed with the fact that every man in her life always runs out on her and she is on Bubbs case constantly, and … Continue reading
