Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideVeteran British Director John Boorman returns to his roots with this new movie …..his first for several years …picking up the story line from his masterful Oscar multi-nominated semi-autobiographical ‘Hope & Glory’ about a nine year old boy living through the London Blitz . Now a decade later young Bill Rohan (aka Boorman) is 18 … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThe most traitorous act about this British spy story would be to admit that one didn’t like (Dame) July Dench’s performance as the octogenarian widow suddenly arrested by the Authorities for what she got up to at University in the 1940’s. The hesitation is not a reflection of her in anyway, but in the … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThis totally stunning series of films are from a quartet of novels that fictionalized a series of horrific crimes including those committed by the Yorkshire Ripper an infamous serial killer, and also unprecedented widespread police brutality and corruption that shook the UK in the late 1970’s /early 80s when it all came to light. Shot … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideA frail but very healthy looking Jewish Grandmother claims she is dying and pressures her long-suffering son Lenny to cancel his dream Cruise and bring his disparate grown up children who can’t abide each other together for one last Pesach in her old home that she has blown her retirement fund to but back. One’s … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThere is no surprise as to what this new rom-com is about as the title says it all. Literally. Based on Paul Today’s best selling novel the movie comes across as Hollywood’s patronizing way of saying that some Arabs are really quite nice people, even in they waste their new found wealth of silly harmless things. … Continue reading