Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideSteve Coogan and Rob Brydon who are like a contemporary Brit ‘Odd Couple’, are back together again reprising their roles of touring enthusiastic amateur gastronomes whilst verbal sparring and trying to out ‘impersonate’ each other. This pair of comic actors pretend to irritate each other with their quick-witted jibes whilst charming the pants of audiences … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideWhen I sat watching writer/director John Carney’s latest movie that was hoping to follow on with the surprise success of his last hit, instead of being enthralled by the warbling tones of singer/songwriter Gretta on screen I just couldn’t get a certain Sondheim lyric out of my head. ‘Once, yes, once for a lark, Twice, though, … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThis tense taut thriller is about yet another deadly incident in the ongoing struggle in the Middle East and was written by a former Israeli Secret Agent and a Palestinian journalist. Yet despite its bipartisan credentials the overwhelming feeling that you come away after watching ‘Bethlehem’ is that the world is split into different camps … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesIf you didn’t know any better after watching ‘The Happy Sad’ you would be forgiven for thinking that New York is in fact a very small place where the same total strangers keep running into each other all the time. Well this two couples do anyway and in this story start out as strangers and … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesStella is a no-nonsense potty-mouth old fashioned lesbian elderly lesbian. Her partner of some 31 years is sweet frumper near-blind Dot and this mis-matched couple have a happy life together in a remote part of Maine. This is however threatened one day by Dot’s interfering granddaughter Molly who tricks her into signing her liberty and … Continue reading
