Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThe opening scene of this gritty crime thriller movie shows Jay, a teenage boy, at home calmly watching ‘Deal or No Deal’ on the TV as his heroin addicted mother has just O.D. on the couch besides him. His grandmother, who has been estranged from her daughter for years, rushes over to pick … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideAn indigenous Aboriginal girl group performing in some shanty town in the Australian outback are spotted by a washed-out Irish pianist down on his luck who perceives that the girls are talented and could be his ticket out of there. Not by singing their dreary country music at which they are addicted too, but by … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThere is something quite deliciously old-fashioned about veteran Australian director Fred Schepisi’s latest movie that gives you the distinct feeling that it actually may have been made 20 years ago. It’s all about a domineering matriarch who has been a total control freak all her life : staff, children and local society, and now she … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideI’ve been dancing my socks off this month cinematically speaking. First the subliminal PINA (and I am still doing the ‘4 Seasons’ dance in my head), then DANCEMAKER the documentary on one of the world’s greats contemporary choreographers PAUL TAYLOR. Followed a frenetic look at the manic craziness of kiddies competing in the World Irish Dancing Championships in JIG, and … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideFrom the late 1940’s up to 1970 the British Government surreptitiously ‘deported’ 130000 children placed in their care to Australia for reasons I still cannot fathom. This movie is the true story of how Margaret Humphreys, a Social Worker from Nottingham, uncovered the scandal, and almost single-handedly and against overwhelming odds and even threats against … Continue reading
