Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guide‘I’ve just had sex! Holy sh-t!’ is the very first thing we hear uttered from 15 year-old Minnie even before the opening credits roll. She is not talking to us but to her cassette tape recorder into which she secretly records her innermost thoughts. Minnie backtracks to relive the past two days that led up … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideYou would have had to be living on another planet for the past couple of decades not to know that all the movies made by filmmaker Quentin Tarantino contain some of the most excruciating gratuitous violence ever seen on the screen. However you will also know, and hopefully appreciate, that at the same time they … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThe Last Five Years is a rare breed. It is an (off) Broadway Hit Musical that has been very successfully adapted as a movie and avoided the disastrous transition from stage to screen that usually ruins most of Broadway’s exports. The simple story explores a five-year relationship between Cathy, a struggling actress, and her boyfriend … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideFilmmaker Ridley Scott seems to send people into Space more often than even NASA. In this his latest, and most thrilling blockbuster, he has a manned space shuttle land on Mars for a couple of weeks of research but then when the crew have to suddenly evacuate in a hurry, they manage to leave one … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideFrançois Ozon means to grab your attention from the very first frame of his movie, which shows a young bride in a wedding dress lying in a coffin surrounded by sobbing mourners. Standing besides David her husband is Claire who has been Laura’s best friend since childhood and she finishes her emotional eulogy by promising … Continue reading