One of the reasons that this comic drama falls quite short of being really funny is that it is about two extreme stereotypes who are the focus of a very thin plot that holds no surprises or twists once the main thrust of the story has been revealed at the very beginning. It’s essentially the … Continue reading
It is important to understand in this totally enchanting Irish dramedy that the Mary (Seána Kerslake) in the title is not mad in the conventional sense of the word, and this is just a label hurled at her by people who simply do not know how to cope with her wild and nonconforming spirit. She has … Continue reading
Signature Move is unquestionably one of THE must talked about lesbian movies of 2017. This modern day romance about women from two different cultures has been feted with Gala Screenings at Festivals all around the globe. Last week it was the Closing Night Movie at London’s BFI Flare Film Festival, and on Sunday next it will be playing at the Cleveland International Film Festival. Before that however it has been selected as the Opening Night Gala Film at Wicked Queer, Boston’s prestigious LGBT Film Festival on Thursday 30th March 2017.
queerguru caught up with director Jennifer Reeder at her home in Chicago just before she left to catch the plane to Boston, and she talked to us exclusively for P.T.V. about why her movie was such a hot ticket right now.
This is a one of those rather glorious no-holds-barred weepy melodramas that Hollywood would have termed as a ‘women’s picture’ in the good old days. It still is in a sense, but for entirely different reasons. This time the romantic pair at the centre of this rather wonderful sad tale are lesbians. It is the … Continue reading
Small Talk is one of those compelling documentaries that demand patience from the viewer in the same manner that Hui-chen Huang the filmmaker had to exercise in getting her mother ……the subject of the film ….to open up about her life. Their share a home together in Taiwan, and although the presence Huang’s very young child … Continue reading