Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideAs always the latest James Bond movie is exceedingly silly and outrageously excessively over-the-top and exactly like Daniel Craig himself, we swear this may be the very last one we will indulge ourselves in, knowing full well it certainly will not. Back in the directors chair for a second time, Sam Mendes makes sure … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideIt takes the arrival of Marty Baron (Liev Schreiber) the new Editor from New York to kickstart The Boston Globe into re-visiting the newspaper’s coverage to date of the rumors that have been circulating for years about local priests sexually abusing young children. In this fiercely traditional Catholic city, the Church’s power and influence is … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideViolent prison dramas with raw angry men desperately displaying their machismo just to survive the regime of brutality that pervades in jails always have an underlying tone of homo-eroticism in them. ‘Starred Up’ with a brilliant career-making performance from 23 year old Jack O’Connell is one such movie especially as it has the near-obligatory shower scene that ends … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThere is nothing remotely conventional about the enthralling biopic that director Danny Boyle (“Slumdog Millionaire”) and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin (” The Social Network”) have made about Steve Jobs (Michael Fassbender) the iconic visionary with a major messiah complex. Rather than try and pack in the man’s entire rather manic life in two short hours they focus … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideLife is seemingly idyllic for 50-year-old Alice Howland a renowned Professor of Linguistics at Columbia University who is happily married with three grown up children. Then suddenly out of the blue she forgets a word or two midway in a tutorial, and then cannot remember the occasional appointment although this hardly registers with her at all. That is until one … Continue reading