Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideWhat better way to celebrate Chinese New Year at Sundance than selecting ‘CHINA HEAVYWEIGHT’ as my first movie of the day. Evidently that old curmudgeon Chairman Mao banned boxing in China as he said it was the sport of capitalism and thus very bad. It wasn’t until after Mohammed Ali visited China in 1979 as a goodwill ambassador that … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideFilmmaker Robyn Bailey’s documentary from 2007 plays witness to the sad tale of this ninth generation family of animal trainers as they struggle with the demise of traditional family circuses. British-born wheel-chair bound octogenarian Derek Rosaire Snr presides over his extended family as they scramble to practice their crafts playing any gigs that they can … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideFilmmaker Laura Gabbert’s very affectionate portrait of the L.A. Times celebrated food critic Jonathan Gold is as upbeat and sunny as this Pulitzer winner’s own writing. The movie’s focus is very much on how this native Los Angeleno has an inexhaustible passion for rooting out unlikely culinary delights and then singing their praises, and we … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideWhen I look down the long list of the hundreds of films that Roger Corman has either directed or produced I have no recollection of seeing a single one of them. That obviously is not the case because as a teenager growing up in Britain in the 19..’s (well a few decades ago!) I lived … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideFrederick Wiseman’s stunningly photographed documentary is an up-close look behind the scenes at one of Paris’s most famous nude revues ‘The Crazy Horse’, and also at many of the bare behinds that inhabit the place. His camera rolled freely around the entire Club where uninhibited beautiful European girls seemed to be permanently in a state … Continue reading