Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideIn 1990 in a small New England town Pamela Smart, an attractive blond sexpot teacher who was having an affair with one of her students, was accused of plotting her husband’s murder. This rather scandalous cause celebre was the first ever trial to be televised and this new HBO documentary from filmmaker Jeremiah Zagar focuses … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThis is the story of a charming and selfless information prodigy that strived to use his talent to make this a freer and better world for which he ended up paying for with his life. Aaron Swartz was born in Chicago, the middle son, of successful middle-class Jewish parents. Inquisitive from birth, he taught himself … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideChina does nothing on a small scale. The Government has established 400 rehabilitation and treatment centers to ‘cure’ what they claim is over 24 million young people of compulsive Internet use … or as they crudely term it ‘electronic heroin’. This eye-opening documentary looks at just one of these military type camps and how it … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesOn the morning of November 5th 2008 our euphoria over the election of Barak Obama as the first African/American President of the US was severely dampened when we learnt that voters in California had passed Proposition 8, albeit by a slim majority. Overnight they had taken away the legal right of same-sex marriages in the … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThe sub-title of Argentinian filmmaker Carina Sama’s first documentary movie is ‘diversity within diversity’ which aptly covers this close study of the lives of four transvestites and one transsexual in Bolivia today. Each of the five have made an extraordinary journey to reach the point of where they are now, and whilst most of have … Continue reading
