Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideRoman Polanski has co-adapted Yasmin Reza’s Tony Award Winning play ‘God of Carnage’ into a movie and despite the performances and Reza’s wonderful words it does still feel very much like a play that just happens to have been filmed. All the action takes place in a very comfortable high-rise apartment in Brooklyn on … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideA frail but very healthy looking Jewish Grandmother claims she is dying and pressures her long-suffering son Lenny to cancel his dream Cruise and bring his disparate grown up children who can’t abide each other together for one last Pesach in her old home that she has blown her retirement fund to but back. One’s … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideHoward Marks was a drug smuggler who, when on the run as a Wanted Criminal, stole the identity of a Denis Nice. And according to this entertaining biopic based on his life it was a very appropriate name for him as everybody (except the police and customs officials) seemed to love this rather charming and outgoing fun-loving … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideIn 2004 French filmmakers Renaud Barret and Florent de la Tullaye were making a series of short films about music in The Congo when they stumbled across a street Band made up of 4 paraplegics. These musicians were living in a squalid shelter for disabled people at the time, reliant on their make shift hand powered tricycles to … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideKate & Bill are contemplating taking one last family holiday together to save their empty and emotionless marriage. That night they talk on the phone to Sam their 18 year old son who’s away at College and he seems quiet and more distant than usual, but they just put it down to him trying to … Continue reading
