Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThis is one of those old-fashioned screwball comedies that Hollywood may have given up on, but seemingly is still a film genre that has a place in Italian cinema This is the tale of a 60-ish-year-old Jewish psychoanalyst Elio (Toni Servillo) who is so bored with most of his patients that he is quietly tucking into pastries … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideFrom the very first glimpse of a rather grand Beatrice (Valerie Bruni Tedeschi) swooping through the grounds of the Villa Biondi clutching her parasol and dispensing instructions without a care in the world to everyone working away, you can sense that this is going to be a performance that should not be missed. However … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideWith just one week away before he gets married to his fiancee Lucía, Carlos jumps on a plane to Madrid to convince his best friend to come back with him to Mexico to attend the wedding. Javier has been ignoring all his phone calls and emails so Carlos is worried that something dreadful may have happened … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideVery few people have ever heard of the wealthy American socialite Florence Foster Jenkins who was an amateur operatic soprano known and ridiculed for her dreadful singing voice that was so bad that it actually made her famous in the 1930’s & 1940’s, for all the wrong reasons. Now there is not one, but two movies … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideHerzi, a very likable obese man, living in a small town in Israel, gets mad when he is thrown out of his Dieting Club by its skinny tyrannical leader who calls him a whale cos he is actually putting on weight, and then he gets fired from his job as a Chef at a Salad … Continue reading