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 guideAfter his successful tenure as a Principal Dancer with the New York City Ballet and a starring role in the movie Black Swan which he also choreographed and where he met his future wife Natalie Portman, in 2014 Benjamin Millepied was offered the position of Director of the prestigious Paris Opera Ballet. One of the reasons … 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
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideAfter the unprecedented success of ‘The Intouchables’ in 2011 which went on to become France’s second biggest grossing movie of all time, filmmaking duo Oliver Nakache and Eric Toledano reunite with their Cesar Winning actor Omar Sy for a new drama/rom-com about un-documented immigration which is a very thorny topic especially in France. Sy plays Samba Cissé a migrant … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideSchultze is a recently retired German miner facing impending death and leading a god-awful supremely sad and boring life. His only outlet is playing polkas on his accordion which he does with a fatalistic reluctance until one day he accidental tunes his radio to a station that is playing zydeco music which combines blues with … Continue reading
