Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideNewly widowed Fred has been coerced by his control freak of a daughter to sell his large house and move into an apartment in New Orleans. He is stubborn, perpetually grumpy with everything and everybody and spends most of his days now lying around the house sleeping. It is, he explains because of the realisation … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideAlthough Amir Bar-Lev’s new documentary is about the sexual abuse that infamous Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky carried out on scores of young boys over a 15 year period, the focus is less on the crimes themselves but about the whole culture surrounding them and the devastating effects on that college town. Initially … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideHirut, a 14 year old Ethiopian girl, is walking home through the fields from the village school when she is suddenly surrounded by a group of horsemen who snatch her up and take her off. Tadele their leader intends to marry her, but first he imprisons the frightened young schoolgirl in his hut,, and beats … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guide‘Sick Boy’ wants to enlist in the Military to provide for his girlfriend and their baby on the way but he keeps slipping into his old habits which get him into trouble. Nizhini was adopted and spent most of her adolescence boarding in private schools far away and is obsessed with locating her birth family. … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesFor Shirin, a twenty-something-year-old angst ridden fashionable Brooklynite, life is mess. We don’t need to feel sorry for her, as she does that so well herself. She is reluctantly breaking up with Maxine her girlfriend and leaving the home they shared with little more than a strapon dildo. She is moving into a shabby squalid … Continue reading
