Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideFilmmaker Olivia Silver’s debut narrative is a rather interminable road movie that spends so long getting nowhere. A dysfunctional young family is forced by their father to suddenly move across country from New England to California. At dawn one morning he simply hustles them into his station wagon heading towards a new job and a … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesWhen you are more than halfway through HARVEST you could be forgiven for thinking that you are actually watching an Infomercial on modern German farming methods rather than a coming-of-age tale about two teenage boys. This well-meaning debut feature film from writer/director Benjamin Cantu shot on the most minuscule of budgets using actual farm workers instead of actors … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesLorenz Meran is a successful middle-aged gay writer who is struggling with writers block when he gets called back home after his elderly mother has a stroke. Rosie is a feisty old bird and unlike Lorenz and his perpetually unhappy sibling Sophie, she seems to be the one member of this family who likes to … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThis is a filmed adaptation of celebrated British playwright David Storey’s stage play that opened in London Royal Court Theatre in 1969. Storey was a leading exponent of ‘kitchen sink drama’ which in the late 1960’s atypically was a style of social realism which often depicted the domestic situations of working-class Britons living in terraced … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesA brief encounter in a gay bar in Virginia one night results in small-town boy Anthony packing up and traveling to the West Coast where his one night stand has returned home too. Stephen is older and reasonably wealthier and offers his new boyfriend everything …. but it comes at a steep price. When Stephen’s … Continue reading
