Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThere is an hilariously funny opening sequence when the camera swoops down from the nearby mountains to spot Shirley, a suburban housewife on the verge of a breakdown, hanging out her washing in her garden whilst she recreates the beginning of ‘The Sound of Music’ that she is totally obsessed with. Her five daughters however … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideJonah is a scruffy twenty-something who lives in a large ramshackled house in Sydney’s inner city that he inherited from his parents and now shares with his two best friends Gus and Stevie with whom he makes a passable living throwing weekly wild house parties. Money may be tight, but there is plenty of drugs, sex … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThis totally enchanting documentary is a deliciously hilarious look at same-sex couples in Australia as they practice to enter the ballroom dancing competition at the Gay Games. The story starts in the autumn of 2009 and just nine months away from the World Gay Games in Germany, and Anny a vivacious blond dance instructor … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThe opening scene of this gritty crime thriller movie shows Jay, a teenage boy, at home calmly watching ‘Deal or No Deal’ on the TV as his heroin addicted mother has just O.D. on the couch besides him. His grandmother, who has been estranged from her daughter for years, rushes over to pick … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideAn indigenous Aboriginal girl group performing in some shanty town in the Australian outback are spotted by a washed-out Irish pianist down on his luck who perceives that the girls are talented and could be his ticket out of there. Not by singing their dreary country music at which they are addicted too, but by … Continue reading
