Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThis feel-good French fairy story with its funny hybrid title is about a pair of ‘untouchables’. One is Philipe a very wealthy Parisian aristocrat who is now paralyzed from the neck down after a paragliding accident, and the other is Driss an African immigrant newly released from jail and living in the projects who unwittingly … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideI rarely walk out of Screenings at Sundance and I always sit to the (sometimes bitter) end hoping that even the worst movie will redeems itself before the final Credits roll. This however, is one such film that I wish I hadn’t wasted a whole 100 minutes on. This is a very weird cold fish of an … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThe movie opens with Madelena an elderly peasant woman slowly trundling along a dis-used railway line to deliver the few loaves of bread she has baked to sell in the local store. She’s greeted by an annoyed looking Antonio the store owner who barks at her to stack the bread his way which she totally … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideLisa is a mess. A spoilt and precocious teenager used to manipulating people to try and ensure that she always gets her own way, and who has a somewhat privileged life with her divorced actress mother and her younger brother in Manhattan. She’s an opinionated intelligent girl who’s not afraid to show her contempt for … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideOver a weekend eight male high school cadets are left behind when the rest of the McKinley Military Academy go away on an Exercise and they are ordered to carry on with their studies regardless. In the English Literature Class they are studying ‘Romeo and Juliet‘ and the two young men reading the leads begin … Continue reading
