Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThe prolific gay filmmakers Fenton Bailey & Randy Barbato start this latest documentary of theirs on the celebrated and controversial photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in 1989 with the scene of the right wing Republican Senator Jesse Helms angrily pleading with the Senate to stop the public funding of the latest Mapplethorpe Exhibition. The fact it didn’t actually receive any monies … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideAt first glance the whole concept of a movie that seeks to look at the rather complicated practices of the global financial markets that keep leading us in and out of crisis being written and directed by Terry Jones a member of Monty Python, seems somewhat insane. It is however anything but, as Jones has … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideSteve Gleason was a successful NFL player whose career highlight occurred when he was playing with the New Orleans Saints in their first game in the city’s Superdrome exactly a year after Hurricane Katrina. Gleason made a spectacular pass which enabled the team to win this crucial game which was a vital step in the recovery … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideFilmmaker Andrew Horn’s overly long paean to the 1970’s/1980’s outrageous heavy metal band Twisted Sister will be welcomed with open arms from all their hoards of fans who stuck by them religiously through the group’s very rocky musical career. It has less appeal to people who never warmed to their unorthodox style, for in the … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideJames Foley …. known to everyone as Jim….. was a American freelance photojournalist who was abducted in Syria in 2012 and then publicly beheaded byISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) eighteen months later. His compelling story is told in a new HBO documentary by first time director Brian Oakes who had been Foley’s … Continue reading
