Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThis should have been subtitled ‘all you need to know about how psychoanalysis was first created when Freud & Jung decided all our behavioral ‘problems’ were based on sexual hang-ups’. Of course in David Cronenberg’s movie, almost drowning in dialogue, the psycho-babble between these two great men in particular gives a much more refined take than I do on this … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThe American Academy of Motion Pictures may want to think about adding another category for the Oscars this year for best prosthetics. Following hot on the heels of Woody Harrelson’s latex face as LBJ, we now have Gary Oldman’s face totally submerged under Kazuhiro Tsuji’s masterful make up as Winston Churchill. Whatever happened to the … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideWhy Russian Empress Catherine The Great should suddenly be in vogue is probably a mere coincidence. Helen Mirren received respectable reviews for her recent portrayal even though the series she starred in was so leaden and heavy work. Now Elle Fanning who is young enough to be Mirren’s ……. well, just lets say they … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideIt’s unusual to see the Oscar winning actress Marion Cotillard in anything as syrupy as From The Land of The Moon which in the old days would be simply dismissed as a ‘women’s picture’. Her presence and that of co-star Louis Garrel does at least raise the bar somewhat in what is otherwise a … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideFilmmaker William Oldroyd’s debut feature is a stunning Victorian dark period drama adapted from Russian writer Nikola Leskov’s 1865 novella Lady Macbeth of Mitsensk. Relocated to a remote part of the British northern countryside it is the compelling tale of how a reluctant teenage bride took matters into her own hands to re-shape her destiny … Continue reading