Sundance
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The Poodle Trainer
queerguru first fell in love with this 7 minute short film at Sundance Film Festival four years ago, and we have never forgotten it for one moment since. It is the delightful story of Irina Markova who has devoted her entire life to her passion of training her poodles to perform in Russian circuses. …
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Beatriz At Dinner
For much of its plot, the dramatic comedy Beatriz at Dinner, teeters between becoming a cliched ridden tale about a Trumpesque property baron and a Buddhist Holistic healer, or a powerful take on a very contemporary environmental scenario. What pushes it more to the latter are the potent performances of is two stars Salam…
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Whose Streets?
There can never be a ‘right’ time to watch such a stark and powerful documentary about the horrifying brutality of what went down in Ferguson, Missouri two years ago. It’s the story of what happened after Michael Brown an unarmed African/American who was slain in cold blood by Darren Wilson a white policeman who…
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Patti Cake$
So often when you hear about the frantic bidding wars that burn the midnight oil at Sundance as studios scramble to sign up the latest over-hyped movie, it always ends in tears. Seems like every year when a new record price is paid the Studio then struggles to make a profit, and in the cases…
