Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideLife is tough enough for 10 year-old Gülîstan and Firat her younger brother and their baby sister living with their family in a small apartment in Diyarbakir in the heart of Turkish Kurdistan amidst the uncertainty of the political unrest in the region. But then when her mother and her father, a celebrated journalist, are assassinated by … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideOn a snowy wintry night in a small town in the suburbs of Milan, after he has worked at an Awards Evening for the local school, a waiter jumps on his bike to make his way home. However before he can get there, he is run over by a hit-and-run driver who leaves him at … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesWith opening credits that are a playful homage to those of a James Bond movie and with a song to match, you immediately assume that this tongue-in-cheek indie feature will probably not be a run-of-the-mill gay themed movie. And you would be right. It’s a very contemporary take on an old-fashioned detective story where the … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideAccording to this new documentary from filmmakers Tony Gerber and Maxim Pozdorovkin it would seem that everybody has wildly exaggerated polarizing ideas about who Viktor Anatolyevich Bout really is. None more so than Mr Bout himself who considers himself simply as a devoted family man and a highly successful international entrepreneur, and the D.E.A. who claim that his … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideAlthough Amir Bar-Lev’s new documentary is about the sexual abuse that infamous Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky carried out on scores of young boys over a 15 year period, the focus is less on the crimes themselves but about the whole culture surrounding them and the devastating effects on that college town. Initially … Continue reading
