Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideWhen Eva meets Albert at a cocktail party in L.A. they both bemoan the fact that there are no attractive single people there. They joke about it together and the moment passes, and when Eva gets home later she’s more excited that she was introduced to Marianne a rather glamorous Poet who wants to become … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThe most interesting thing about this rather surreal and intensely weird black comedy is the fact that it was clandestinely filmed at a Disney Park without permission. It would never have been granted anyway if writer/director Randy Moore had bothered to ask, as he so obviously hates Disney and everything it stands for. According to … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideIn a glorious opening scene Rivka a middle aged Jewish mother and Shira her teenage daughter are pushing a shopping cart around a busy supermarket cruising for men. Not just any men, but a particular one that the Matchmaker has arranged to be available for a ‘viewing’. He’s standing in the cold meats section (although he … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideSoon after their mother dies in the 1980’s siblings Anne and Tania are sorting through her belongings when they come across a box of old photographs that they had never seen before. Anne, the older of the two is a film director, and is positively intrigued by this discovery. Their mother had always been deliberately … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideFrances Ha is a mess. The rather charming thing is that she is the only one who doesn’t see that. She’s a 27 year awkward and gangly young woman living in New York whose headset has never moved on from being a college student. She sails through her disparate life without a steady job, or … Continue reading