Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThe ‘leaving’ in the title of this rather frenetic comedy refers to death and divorce and a few other departures in between. Everybody in the Altman family has both issues and secrets and the set up for us (and them) to discover them all is when the patriarch dies and his widow (their mother) insists that … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideIf there was any real justice in the world then Mildred Hayes would find her daughter’s killer, and also Frances McDormand who portrays the angry mother in this movie about her, will be a shoo-in for a nomination for a Best Actress Academy Award when they are announced. This new enthralling black comedy from … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideChris Rock is a very funny man. He is also an extremely talented actor as he proves in the role he wrote for himself in this, his third time behind the camera too. Rock plays Andre Allen a comedian who donned an animal suit to play a gun-toting sidekick to an LA cop as the … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThe first time Ned Fleming (Bryan Cranston) even knows that his 22 year old daughter Stephanie (Zoey Deutch) is dating is when she Skypes him in the middle of his 55th Birthday party to wish him happy birthday. He, and his party guests, catch much more than they bargained for when they spot Laird (James Franco) … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideTwo-time Academy Award nominee Woody Harrelson has come a long way since he burst on to our TV screens in 1985 as Woody the nice-but-dim innocent barman in Cheers. Now at 55 years old he seems to have inherited fellow actor Bill Murray’s mantle for usually playing eccentric crotchety loners who are always several steps out … Continue reading
