From Afar
Middle-aged Armando (Alfredo Castro) is a rather solitary dental technician who cruises the streets of one of Caracas rougher neighborhood looking to pick up teenage boys. He is more of a voyeur than a fornicator as he lures them back to his apartment with a thick wad of cash just to have them undress whilst he … Continue reading
From Baghdad to The Bay
Ten years in the making this new excellent documentary from filmmaker Erin Palmquist is the engaging story of Ghazwan Alsharif an Iraqi refugee and former translator for the U.S. military. After years of service helping the American invading forces, he was wrongfully accused of espionage and tortured by the military police in Iraq for some 75 days … Continue reading
From Beginning to End
There is good taste, and then there is incest. It’s surprising that I can sit and watch a lot of suspect and even deviant behaviour amongst (consenting) adults on the silver screen, but this is one topic that I feel is just a tad too icky even for me. Especially when it comes in the … Continue reading
From Queerguru archives : A MATTER OF SIZE a 2009 Israeli ‘coming out movie’ of a different kind
Herzi (Itzik Cohen) is a very likable obese man, living in a small town in Israel, who gets mad when he is thrown out of his Dieting Club by its skinny tyrannical leader who calls him a whale cos he is actually putting on weight. To make matters worse, he then gets fired from … Continue reading
From Queerguru Archives : the delightful TEDDY BEAR a Sundance Winner in 2012
This is the story of Dennis (Kim Kold) a Danish middle-aged pumped-up 6′ 5″ bodybuilder who weighs in at 305 lbs but still lives at home with his diminutive shrew of a mother who bullies him like mad. After Dennis’s old Uncle Bent (Allan Mogensen) marries his new young Thai bride it sets him off … Continue reading