Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideI readily confess that I am possibly not young enough to fully appreciate INDIE GAMES. It’s a new documentary about computer geeks who independently create video games which are very much a staple of daily life for young(er) people these days. (And judging by the film, some not so young too!) A pair of newbie filmmakers … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideIt’s questionable if filmmaker Lea Pool’s investigation into the breast cancer movement suffers from the lack of an indignant Michael Moore type expose but it does raise some very pertinent issues about this unwieldy juggernaut of a crusade that some think may now be out of control. Pool does however overload us somewhat with a … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThe Oscar-nominated documentary film-maker Morgan Spurlock has had a good run with some excellent entertaining movies (‘Super Size Me’, ‘Where In The World is Osama Bin Laden’, ‘The Greatest Movie Ever Sold’ etc) and now that he seems to be churning them out at an almost indecent speed, it was inevitable that eventually one would … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideI guess you could call Jeannette Maier a lucky Madam, as unlike Deborah Jeanne Palfrey the so called DC Madam, for when the FBI raided her New Orleans Brothel in 2005 she just lost her livelihood but not her life. In this fascinating documentary on the life of the media-dubbed ‘Canal Street Madam’ what comes shining through is the very … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guide‘THE AMBASSADOR’ is the work of Mads Brugger a Danish documentarian setting himself up as an ‘African Diplomat’ and under the pretense of representing Liberia he settles in the Central African Republic ostensibly to expose widespread corruption but at the same time becoming a diamond drug smuggler. This hilarious and completely compelling movie is about being a con-man … Continue reading
