Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideA beautiful young girl dying of cancer falls in love with a young man who she coaxes back to the world of the living after both his parents die, sounds like a tear-jerker sappy story that I would run from BUT add filmmaker extraordinaire Gus Van Sant into the mix, and you know this will … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideSwiss Oscar-Nominated Director Christian Frei’s new documentary is his well-meaning attempt to investigate the power of love and how to survive once you lose it. With the involvement of Dr Helen Fisher PhD a Biological Anthropologist and Professor at Rutgers (and the author of 5 books on ‘romantic love’) Frei follows three love-lorn people as they … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideBased on a novel that was based on a true story about love and lust amongst some about-to-be famous artists in Edwardian Britain this pretty period costume drama is the most tedious of affairs. Essentially the tale of A J Munnings, who would go on to not only become Britain’s most famous painter of horses but … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideIt’s tough being a young Mormon man. At aged 20 you are made to leave home and dispatched to some far flung part of the world to pair up with another innocent youth and for the next two years be a Missionary and force the Gospel on to unsuspecting souls to recruit them as new members … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideMost of us in life have to just simply pick ourselves up and get over it on our own when our hearts are broken for the first time. Ethan Hawke however went one better and wrote a semi-autobiographical novel about his own heartbreak and then adapted it into a movie that he also directed and acted … Continue reading