Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideIn his 41st movie (and possibly one of his best) Woody Allen treats us to a wonderful homage to two of his great loves : the city of Paris, and great American cultural icons of the last century. It’s a delightful tale of Gil, a Hollywood screenwriter who yearns to forsake his highly successful life … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThe best part of this disappointing mish-mash of a film is the opening sequence which is footage of Yves St Laurent announcing to the world that he is about to retire. In a highly dramatic speech that he stumbles through in which, amongst other things, he confesses to the demons (drink and drugs) he has … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThere could be a two-fold irony about this movie, which is about a movie charting Christopher Columbus’s first explorations in South America where he notoriously exploited the native Indians at the time. The movie is being filmed in Bolivia because the cheapskate producer from Spain wants to use all the locals as extras cos they … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideSo Harold Camping got it wrong (again) and the world didn’t end on May 21st, and we all laughed at the joke. Now I’ve seen this movie, which contained an equally sounding preposterous prediction from Rudolf Steiner, the eminent philosopher and social innovator, who in 1932 predicted that within 80-100 years all the honeybees … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThere’s nothing like a good old religious Civil War to get the juices flowing in any period costume drama. In this case it’s in France in 1564 and the Protestants are fighting the Catholics (yet again) on whose God is better etc. Also the source of another battle at the same time is the hand … Continue reading
