Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideSometime in the 1970’s Mary Shepard decided to park her beaten up old Bedford van in one of the nicer leafy streets in London’s Camden Town area. The street with it’s expansive Georgian houses was home to several professional upper-middle class Brits that included a smattering of famous people such as the widow of the … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideWriter/director Jeff Baena ‘s new movie is very loosely based on a very tiny part of Giovanni Boccaccio’s 14th-century classic The Decameron using two of the many bawdy stories to make this amusing comedy of his. Using a talented cast of actors most of whom are usually found in TV series, a good part of The … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideFilmmaker Noah Baumbach has very definitely adopted Woody Allen’s mantle in this new ensemble NY dramedy that rambles through the dynamics of of a very disorderly family resulting in what will probably end up being one of his more populist films. The family patriarch Harold (an extraordinarily dry and funny Dustin Hoffman) is a retired … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideIts been a long six years since he directed his last movie Le Havre, but the wait was well worth it as Aki Kaurismäki has just released The Other Side of Hope another truly wonderful piece of escapism that is peppered with a more than the usual dose of realism to. The Finnish auteur … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideSteve Coogan and Rob Brydon who are like a contemporary Brit ‘Odd Couple’, are back together again reprising their roles of touring enthusiastic amateur gastronomes whilst verbal sparring and trying to out ‘impersonate’ each other. This pair of comic actors pretend to irritate each other with their quick-witted jibes whilst charming the pants of audiences … Continue reading
