Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThis somewhat annoying drama of a drug addict mother who has been refused rehab that her precocious college student son has badgered her into because she passes drug free urine and so is advised to go by the Nurse to go out and get high just to qualify is such a ludicrous tale, it had … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideSo what does happen when a marriage just grinds to a halt and you are left with just going through the daily motions with not even bothering (daring?) to mention its demise? This rather intimate and uncomfortable story is just about that when after 31 years of marriage Kay & Arnold live separate lives in … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideWhen Nelson persuaded Marcela his girlfriend to move from Bolivia to Madrid he promised her a life full of roses. Literally. His dream was to set up their own Florist shop and make their fortune and live happily ever after. The reality is that they hire a team of scavengers to raid the town’s garbage dump for discarded … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideIt’s so hard not to think of Sylvia Plath when you watch this heart-wrenching biopic of the celebrated but deeply troubled South African poet Ingrid Jonker as both of then took their own lives at a young age. Plath was just 30 when she poisoned herself in 1963, and Jonker drowned herself two years later … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThis is one crazy film about a very crazy woman and her oddball life. Virginia is a functional paranoid schizophrenic who choses not to take any medication but whose life is spiraling out of control as is this movie that tells her story. Virginia is an exasperating woman in her mid 30’s living in a … Continue reading
