Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guidePeter and John, a period costume drama set in Nantucket in I827, is loosely based on a novel by the 19th Century French author Guy de Maupassant. It’s an odd time in the island’s history as the Civil War has just ended and many of the residents are now struggling financially since the whaling industry … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThis new French feature film co-directed by world-renowned choreographer Angelin Preljoçaj along with screenwriter Valérie Müller is an adaption of Bastien Vivès novel about a young girl pursuing her dreams and it very firmly makes the dancing far more important than the actual plot itself. This is more of an observation than a criticism and it is a move … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideVeteran British Director John Boorman returns to his roots with this new movie …..his first for several years …picking up the story line from his masterful Oscar multi-nominated semi-autobiographical ‘Hope & Glory’ about a nine year old boy living through the London Blitz . Now a decade later young Bill Rohan (aka Boorman) is 18 … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThe most traitorous act about this British spy story would be to admit that one didn’t like (Dame) July Dench’s performance as the octogenarian widow suddenly arrested by the Authorities for what she got up to at University in the 1940’s. The hesitation is not a reflection of her in anyway, but in the … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThis is the third anthology in a series (with a further two in the works) that takes an affectionate look at the one of the world’s major cities with an omnibus of short movies. Like the previous two ….Paris and New York … the movie is overloaded with cinematic talent that includes some of the very best international … Continue reading
