Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideBen Kalman’s life has finally caught up with him. He’s lost his once successful car dealership by cutting corners; he cheated on his wife and disappointed their daughter; he is cheating on his current girl friend who he is only dating cos her father can help him set up a new business, and after charming … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideRinco, a young Japanese girl, runs away from home (and when you catch sight of her mother you soon know why), and she is bought up by her odd but nice grandmother who instills in her a real passion for cooking. So much so that by the time Granny dies she scrapes together enough money … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideAt 8 30 am on a bitterly cold January morning in Park City, Utah I sat clutching my Starbucks watching a wonderful period piece movie when the teacher on screen bawled out a name and then I suddenly remembered why we had decided to make this film part of our Sundance schedule. It was Nowhere … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThe late great Charles Nelson Reilly had a tough start to life: a lobotomized aunt, an institutionalized father, a loud-mouth racist mother and he was the only gay kid on the block in the Bronx back in the 1940’s. Who would have guessed then that he would have ended up as Tony Winning Actor, acclaimed … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideSophie, a young gauche American woman is in Verona for a pre-honeymoon trip (?) and is abandoned by her fiancé, a budding chef who prefers hanging out in kitchens and wine cellars than doing the usual tourist sites. She comes across a wall where desperate women attach letters to Juliet (Shakespeare’s one) bitching about how … Continue reading
