Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideMichael Edwards better known as Eddie ‘The Eagle’ Edwards was a charismatic British folk-hero that most Americans will never have heard of. This plasterer from a blue-collar family ignited the U.K. public’s imagination when, in this real shaggy-dog story and without any real experience, in 1988 he finagled his way into the British Olympic Team … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThis highly emotional WW2 drama tells the true story of a group of young Jewish children who were left to fend for themselves when they were escaping to Switzerland and safe haven. The journey started in Paris for Fanny and her two sisters in 1943 when after their father was arrested by the Nazis, their mother … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideWhen we first glance the Hollywood film star Gloria Grahame (Annette Bening) the year is 1981 and her movie career has been well and truly over for a couple of decades. Wth her finances well drained she has had to resorted to taking any acting jobs wherever she can, and is currently appearing in ‘The … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideMichael Winterbottom’s latest movie is a fast-paced satirical comedy about a story that in reality is far from funny. It’s the very skimpily veiled story of notorious Brit billionaire businessman Sir Philip Green who the British Parliament named as ‘the unacceptable face of capitalism’. Green used nefarious means to buy Topshop and half a … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideFor her latest starring role the twice Oscar Nominated actress Jessica Chastain has ignored the old Hollywood adage ‘never work with animals and children‘ in this highly emotional biopic set in WW2. Chastain plays a real life character Antonina Żabiński, who with her husband Jan (Flemish actor Johan Heldenbergh) run the Warsaw Zoo which they turn … Continue reading