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Queerguru reviews THE QUEEN OF VERSAILLES an extraordinarily wonderful documentary about ultimate bad taste
This is an extraordinarily wonderful documentary that followed obnoxious billionaire timeshare mogul David Segal and his pampered blonde trophy wife Jackie as their life of sheer excess starts to crumble around them. The story starts pre-2008 when everything in their Florida mansion was so rosy for them and children and whole menagerie of animal…
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PRAIRIE LOVE
A man we only know as ‘The Vagrant’ is driving his beaten up wreck of a station wagon across North Dakota’s frozen tundra he’s dressed head to toe in fur lined clothes that we can hardly make out his face. He chances upon a broken down truck in the middle of nowhere and its owner…
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THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL
When a disparate group of middle-class Brits discover that their limited pensions will not provide them with much of a retirement they abandon their homeland and get enticed by some advertisements for THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL, which lays claims to a luxurious sanctuary for “the elderly and beautiful” in Jaipur, India. The seven of…
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PORFIRIO
In 2005 Porfirio Ramirez Aldana’s name was splashed across the headlines and on all the television broadcasts in Colombia for his audacious and foolhardy criminal act. What made it even more sensational was the fact he was a paraplegic in a wheelchair at the time. In Alejandro Landes’s extraordinary new film the details of the…
