rapid fire movie review – Red Doors

“Red Doors is understated and tends toward offbeat humor, foraging for amusement amidst pain and regret.”
That’s what this review said
For me [...]

how can some canadians make Shortbus – and other make THIS piece of crap?

I don’t know how exactly this got to be made into a movie, but somehow Floored by Love ended up on celluloid (or dvd or whatever it is low-budget films use these days). Oh. my. fucking. god. I swear I have never seen something that bad. Well yes, Rise of the Silver Surfer was bad. [...]

Sundance Winner in Vienna

What does it matter that I had already started to write this post, when the computer at work bailed on me? hrmpppfff… anyway, I give you: Quinceañera

If you thought being fourteen and pregnant sucks, imagine being fourteen and pregnant and being a latina and your father is a minister. yeah, and now imagine being in [...]

fairytale in glasgow, heavenly indeed!

Nina’s Heavenly Delights
Nina (Shelley Conn) left Glasgow on the day of her wedding, leaving behind her family, most of all her beloved father and his restaurant The New Taj. Years later she returns by the sad reason of her dad’s death. The restaurant is pretty much run down, and she soon learns that her father [...]

queer movie marathon: Spider Lilies

Last night I went to see the short film program Coming out is such great joy at 6 o’clock and the gf joined me for Ci-Qing/Spider Lilies at 8. As you can imagine I was knackered, especially since for about 20 minutes they weren’t able to start the last one of the shorts, so the [...]

Coming out is such great joy

I promised to keep this short, so short it shall be:
Private Life – GB 2006, 15 min
Small town woman Ruth in 1951 takes the train to Manchester every friday, where she meets a man. But not everything is as it seems. “Have a nice weekend, Miss.” This one I liked, not amazing but good and [...]

“It’s like the sixties. Only with less hope.”

I like movies. in general. it takes a little to make me really really dislike a movie, if I don’t especially like a story I can still watch the movie studying the technical tidbits like editing. But it also really takes a lot to make my absolutely LOVE a movie. Shortbus has managed to do [...]

a series of violence a.k.a last night’s short film program

gf and I went to see Gillery’s Little Secret, a movie night comprised of five short films, all but one dealing with forms of violence. Here’s my take on them.
Intent – directed by Mary Ann Marino, 14 min.
Intent focuses on Det. Jessica Cavallo, played by Torri Higginson of Stargate: Atlantis fame, who is hunting a [...]

gray matters – a story of “but”s

another review. I was finally able to get a hold of gray matters, a movie I wanted to watch ever since it came out and wasn’t available for outside U.S. (that’s a theme, people! you don’t know how lucky you are.)

the good news is: I love Alan Cumming, so anything with alan cumming in it [...]