Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideAs Hollywood tries to ape Bollywood’s success stories, some leading lights of the Indian film industry are now making movies that are aimed just as much for a western audience as their home crowd. If it wasn’t for the setting and the language, you could actually mistakenly think you were watching an American indie production … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideAdam, a former National Swimming Champion, is the proud manger of the pool at a smart hotel in N’Djamena, the capital of Chad, where he has worked for the past 30 years. Known by all simply as’ Champ’, he now has his grown up son Abdel working as he Assistant so all is right in … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesJust when I thought that I had already been completely shocked into a stupefying daze by all the hard-hitting realism of a whole slate of compelling movies at MIFF this week, I saw INCENDIES which totally blew my mind. This French Canadian movie that only last week won no less than 8 Genies (Canada’s Oscars) … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideFor the best part of 25 years Ilich Ramirez Sanchez was one of the world’s most wanted fugitives as he, and his gang, wreaked havoc and a whole trail of death and destruction as possibly the most pernicious terrorists of the last century. Infamously known as ‘Carlos The Jackal’ he achieved notoriety with his audacious … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideIf I were a member of the Academy I would give the Best Actor gong to Javier Bardem for his heart-wrenching performance as Uxebel in ‘Biutiful’. It’s not that I do not appreciate Mr. Firth’s stunning stammering turn which will inevitably get him the Oscar, its just watching Mr. Bardem intriguingly peel back all the … Continue reading
