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 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 5 min movie guideCanadian actress turned filmmaker Sarah Polley turns the camera on her own family and friends for this fascinating documentary which could have also been titled ‘All About My Mother’. To tell her story Polley has enlisted her interview subjects that she calls ‘The Storytellers’ to help piece together the life of her mother Diane Polley … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideFor a 6 year old child Maisie knows a lot, primarily because the two main adults in her life act like pretentious spoilt brats right in front of her all the time. She lives with her parents in a fancy duplex apartment in Manhattan where there is much screaming and slamming of doors until one … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesAs the title clearly gives the game away you’ll know already that this movie is about the angst of a Jewish family when they discover their only precious son is not going to be bring home a nice girl home soon. Or in fact any time in the future. Not exactly an earth shattering scenario, … Continue reading
