Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideAbout four times a year in rural Pennsylvania discarded school buses are auctioned off to bidders most of whom are from Central America. They have been decommissioned after 8 – 12 years of ferrying kids to school, but are still in good road-worthy condition. In this delightful documentary from Student Academy Award Nominated filmmaker Mark … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideAdele has barely left her old rambling house since her husband left her to marry his secretary. Living on the edge of her nerves she cautiously ventures out just once a month accompanied by Henry her 13 year old son to stock up on provisions. Even then she will avoid any personal contact with other people and … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideUniversity lecturer Nick is taking his school-teacher wife Meg on a weekend trip to Paris to celebrate their 30th Wedding Anniversary. They live in a suburb of Birmingham in the Midlands of the UK which is a place of little joy. Nick is hoping this trip will kick-start their neglected sex-life into action again, whereas … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThe epic domestic drama of how Cecil Gaines a young negro slave from a Southern cotton plantation evolved into a Butler to a string of US Presidents in The White House also serves as a backdrop for the birth and survival of the Civil Rights Movement through the last century. It’s a powerful tale that doesn’t … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideTo mark the 50th Anniversary of the assassination of President Kennedy Oscar winning Director Bill Couturié (‘Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt’) has produced this tribute to the late President using some of the myriad of letters of condolences his widow received in the months after his death. They had a lot to choose from …. … Continue reading