Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideVioletta Parra a one-woman Chilean renaissance movement was an enigma. This multifaceted unique genius was deeply passionate about her art as she was about her love/s and without both of them she was a sad lonely soul. This remarkable feature film based on her son Angel’s account of her extraordinary life shows how this obsessed … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideBenjamin Mee a 40 yr. old journalist dealing with the recent death of his wife and struggling to bring up his two young children in the city, decides that his teenage son’s expulsion from school is a wake up call to re-think how they should move forward as a family. He goes house hunting and after … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideAfter her cancer-ridden mother died just aged 45, Cheryl Strayed fell to pieces. Heavily in debt and with her marriage disintegrating she developed an obsession for sleeping with countless strangers and an addiction to heroin. Her solution to finding a path to recovery and do some major soul-searching was deciding to hike alone the entire … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideMaria Altmann has been living in California since she and her late husband managed to flee from Austria when World War 2 started. Now that her sister has just died Maria has uncovered several documents concerning all the art and other valuables that the Nazis had looted from their family home. One of them was … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThis is one of these stories in which we know the beginning and the end, but the decade that passes in between which sees ‘history’s greatest manhunt for the world’s most dangerous man’ is still a helluva shocker. The opening scene of the movie is a totally black screen with excepts of the last telephone … Continue reading