Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThe gruesome story of Jeffrey Dahmer the infamous serial killer and sex offender who murdered 17 men and boys between 1978 and 1991, has already been the subject of several films and television programmes, and its highly questionable whether there is need for yet another take on these murders. Newbie writer/director Chris James Thompson, a native … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideErika Cohn’s very sympathetic profile on Khoulud Al-Faqih who became the first woman appointed to be a Judge in a Palestinian Shari’a Court in the West Bank bravely attempts to uncover some of the mystique and secrecy that cloaks this Islamic culture. Most of the time she succeeds exceptionally well, but on some occasions, … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideGracie Otto’s affectionate documentary on the charismatic and adventurous English theater and film producer Michael White is a movie long overdue. Despite his enormous contribution in a prolific career that spanned three decades he is as Anna Wintour succinctly put it, ‘the most famous person that you’ve never heard’. Ms Wintour also so accurately summed up his … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideGabriel London’s absorbing new documentary tells the hard-to-believe astonishing story of the man who has been dubbed ‘the Houdini of Florida’ and who has been incarcerated for almost 40 years for simply stealing his father’s tool box and then defying the Prison Authorities ever since. Mark DeFriest was born on August 18, 1960. A … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideLife can be extraordinary privileged and full of exceptional opportunities when your grandmother is the fabled tastemaker and legendary fashion Editor Diana Vreeland. So when young Nicholas expressed an interest in photography, his doting Grandmother was able to secure him an immediate apprenticeship under the distinguished snapper Irving Penn and then later fixed him up with … Continue reading