Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideIn this saga of the Recchi dynasty, who are one of the leading aristocratic families in Milan, we see a way of life that is fading like its dying patriarch as they struggle to come to terms with contemporary society. As wealthy as they are. and waited on hand and foot at every juncture, … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideNewbie Norwegian filmmaker Iram Haq’s new drama is based on her own life and her struggle as a woman caught between two cultures. Struggling actress Mina, a second-generation immigrant, is an attractive 27 year old divorcee who shares custody of her 6 year old son with her ex-husband, a successful architect, and his new wife … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideNow that veteran British filmmaker Ken Loach is 80 years old he keeps threatening that his latest movie will also be his last. We hope not as with I Daniel Blake he is not just back on form, but this is one of his best ever, born out by winning him his second Palme D’Or … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideIt is odd that actress Diane Kruger has waited until now to do her first movie in her native German language. It, however, has proved to have been well worth the wait with her powerhouse performance in Faith Akin’s exacting thriller In The Fade which landed her a Best Actress Award at Cannes, and the film a … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThe reclusive writer Thomas Pynchon is known for his dense and complex novels which he has never allowed to be adapted into movies, until now that is. When ‘Inherent Vice’ his seventh novel was published in 2009 the dust jacket proclaimed that it was ‘part-noir, part-psychedelic romp’. In the hands of auteur filmmaker Paul Thomas … Continue reading
