Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideJack Kerouac wrote his second autobiographical novel Big Sur when he was was trying to escape from all the unwelcome attention that he got after he published his big smash novel ‘On The Road’ a few years earlier (Walter Salles made that into a movie last year). This time its Michael Polish who has undertaken the … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideHave no great expectations of Mike Newell’s new much abridged version of Charles Dicken’s classic story but you will at least get a real visual treat that Oscar nominated cinematographer John Mathieson has created here with his dramatically lit sweeping landscapes. Of all the previous 18 + times this story has been brought to the big and … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThis highly stylised melodrama reverently covers an elegant period in Japanese society in the late 1930’s when wealthy m erchants families revelled in all the steeped traditions of courtship and marriage. With both parents dead Tsuruko the eldest Makioka sister is the head of the family and as she and Satchiko (the second eldest) are already … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideGinger is a deadly serious teenager coming of age in London in the 1960’s at the height of the Cold War. Up till now she has done everything together with her best friend Rosa but as Ginger starts becoming a budding activist and a impassioned poet the girls start to drift apart. Unlike Ginger, Rosa has … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guidePoor Caroline Mathilda didn’t have a lot going for her. As a teenage British Princess back in the late 18th Century she was betrothed to her royal husband sight unseen and he turned out to be infantile and deranged. Nevertheless she was shipped off to the snowy back and beyond of Denmark to be it’s … Continue reading
