Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThis somewhat intriguing and totally bizarre documentary tells the very odd tale of Marc, a rotund man in his fifties, critically ill from a debilitating condition he has suffered with since childhood who is indulging himself for what may very well be the last time. He has somehow accumulated considerable wealth which seems at odds … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideOld and dishevelled Woody Grant looks like he is on his last legs. Unemployed, crotchety and ornery, completely ignores his wife, and barely able to walk, but that doesn’t stop him being stubbornly determined to trek some 900 old miles by foot on a whim that he has won $1 million dollars. He has received … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideIn the opening scene we see Omar scaling the impossible high wall that the Occupying Forces have erected that not just separates Palestinians from Jews, but also Palestinians from each other. He is going to meet up with his best friends Tarak and Amjad to plan their first ever terrorist activity. Tarak mentions a Brigade … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideWe Brits evidently love an underdog breaking through. In 2007, two years before Susan Boyle dramatically assailed the musical world, a chubby and rather insignificant mobile phone salesman from Wales won the first ever ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ Competition on television. The name of this unlikely winner singing Puccini’s aria ‘Nessun dorma’ was Paul Potts, and this … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThere’s an awful lot of violence, and a great deal of red, and hardly any screenplay and just a mere hint of emotion in Nicolas Winding Refn’s controversial new movie that the Critics have either vehemently panned or praised lavishly: there is no sitting on the fence on this one. Julien, a man of very … Continue reading