Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideSo evidently Francis Bacon was not the only who claimed that he was actually the one who wrote all of Shakespeare’s’ plays, as now we have a rather preposterous claim that the real author was the Earl of Oxford. The same man who according to this new movie, was also Queen Elizabeth’s son AND her … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThe protagonist in this small drama is Laversky, who allegedly is a high up civil servant but never seems to do a stroke of work and whiles his days away just gambling a moment and drinking. He’s shacked up with his rather beautiful mistress in a seaside resort but the she gets word that her husband … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThis extraordinary tale from 1789 of the daughter of a West Indian Slave and an aristocrat British Navy Captain was so far fetched that it had to be true. Like something out of the pages of a Jane Austen novel, it is the tale of Sir John Lindsay taking charge of his illegitimate daughter after the sudden death … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideBut not such good spirits for the family or the guests in this vacuous trite period British costume drama that never rose above being anything other than grossly irritating and very tiresome indeed. The year is 1923 and its a glorious early Fall day at the Thatcham’s Family’s large Country House. It’s just a … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideGilles Paquet-Brenner‘s take on Agatha Christie’s novel Crooked House with a script by Julian Fellows (Downton Abbey) and a rather wonderfully starry cast with some campy performances, and filmed on location in the stately Hughenden Manor, had all the ingredients for being a far better movie than it was. Despite all these elements it had … Continue reading
