Tag: 2016
The Salesman
Ever since writer/director Asghar Farhadi became the first Iranian filmmaker to win a Oscar and a Golden Globe in 2011 for his stunning movie A Separation, he has continued to helm compelling dramas of domestic discord that show the uneasiness of women’s roles in contemporary Iranian society. The Salesman starts very dramatically with the impending collapse…
Julieta
For his latest movie …….his 20th …..Spanish auteur Pedro Almodovar has done a 360 degree turn from his last film the outrageously camp farce ‘I’m So Excited‘ and eschewed comedy completely to make one of his excellent signature female-centric melodramas. Julieta is loosely based on three short stories from the Canadian Pulitizer-Prize writer Janet Munro and…
Pee Wee’s Playhouse Christmas Special from 1988
If you run out of recreational drugs this Christmas (as if!) then queerguru recommends watching Pee Wee’s Playhouse Christmas from 1988 which will have exactly the same effect on you. This bizarre and wacky Christmas Special actually got three Emmy nominations and is the story of how Pee-wee’s Christmas wish list is so long that…
Turn Back Time : Noelle Gordon of Crossroads at Christmas
Growing Up Coy
Young married couple Kathryn & Jeremy Mathis had a tough call to make when their son Coy just starting kindergarten kept asking them when he could go to the doctors to become a girl. They were already used to Coy dressing up in his sister’s clothes and refusing to even leave the house if they…
