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 5 min movie guideThe reason that I sit in a movie theater as often as I do is my eternal hope that every movie I watch will be so near perfect that it will just blow me away. In reality it’s a rarity, but tonight was one such occasion. Watching ‘Bill Cunningham New York’, a wonderful moving and … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideFrom the late 1940’s up to 1970 the British Government surreptitiously ‘deported’ 130000 children placed in their care to Australia for reasons I still cannot fathom. This movie is the true story of how Margaret Humphreys, a Social Worker from Nottingham, uncovered the scandal, and almost single-handedly and against overwhelming odds and even threats against … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideEun-yi a young divorcee leaves her low-paying job in a Noodle shop and the small scruffy apartment in which she shares a single bed with her best friend, to become the Maid to this stinking rich family who live in a stunning mansion outside the city. They whole place and the family reek of money, … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThis unlikely film is about an unlikely Punk musician who was an eccentric and wild performer and whose music with its bizarre lyrics was an unforgettable presence on the Brit music scene until his untimely death at the age of 57 in 2000. Ian Dury’s childhood polio my have left him physically disabled but it seemed … Continue reading
