Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThere is only one good reason (well, maybe two) to sit through the long drawn out and rather tedious biopic of the very short life of singer/songwriter Hank Williams, and that is because of its star Tim Hiddleston. He puts in a powerhouse of a performance and is nothing less than magnetic in this overly long … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideIn what is obviously a passion project for the Oscar nominated actor Don Cheadle in this his movie directorial debut, he chose to co-write and star in this feature based on the life on the jazz trumpeter Miles Davis who is widely considered to be one of the most influential and innovative musicians of the … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThis new crowd-pleaser biopic of African/American athletic hero Jesse Owens sees his troubled world through rose colored glasses (even the Nazis running the 1936 Olympics are not THAT bad ) as it fore-mostly focuses on his remarkable achievements of winning 4 Gold Medals, with the political ramifications taking second place. The movie starts with the teenage Owens leaving Alabama and his … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThere is more than a touch of irony that the heroine of David O Russell’s new movie is called Joy as we can see right from the off, that her rather miserable life is far from joyous. It is based on the true life story of Joy Mangano a divorced Long Island single mother who … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThere is nothing remotely conventional about the enthralling biopic that director Danny Boyle (“Slumdog Millionaire”) and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin (” The Social Network”) have made about Steve Jobs (Michael Fassbender) the iconic visionary with a major messiah complex. Rather than try and pack in the man’s entire rather manic life in two short hours they focus … Continue reading
