Diego is 30 years old, and although a Culinary School graduate, is stuck working as a waiter for his Grandmother’s family style Mexican restaurant ‘Tio Pepe’ in East Los Angelas. The restaurant, like the neighborhood, has seen better days but all that is about to change as white gay men (gringos) are about to invade … Continue reading
The movie opens with such a shockingly brutal rape scene that stuns one into disbelief. Even knowing that it is helmed by Dutch filmmaker Paul Verhoeven who directed the controversial Basic Instinct, and is based on a story by Phillipe Dijan the author of Betty Blue, still doesn’t quite prepare one for the fact that … Continue reading
When the movie opens on a quiet July morning in a small Missouri town there is no visible indication we are looking at a man who has falling on hard times. It turns out that Nick Frost has been been virtually unemployed since being laid off from his job on a magazine in NY and … Continue reading
Jonah is a scruffy twenty-something who lives in a large ramshackled house in Sydney’s inner city that he inherited from his parents and now shares with his two best friends Gus and Stevie with whom he makes a passable living throwing weekly wild house parties. Money may be tight, but there is plenty of drugs, sex … Continue reading
‘I’ve just had sex! Holy sh-t!’ is the very first thing we hear uttered from 15 year-old Minnie even before the opening credits roll. She is not talking to us but to her cassette tape recorder into which she secretly records her innermost thoughts. Minnie backtracks to relive the past two days that led up … Continue reading