Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideYou can be forgiven for thinking that you are watching an African version of Saturday Night Fever in the opening sequences of this movie which captures an energetic man whirling around at full speed on the dance floor in his bright shiny white dress shirt. The excited audience are enthralled with this man’s gymnastic dancing and … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThe Leng family are an upwardly mobile middle-class family in Singapore who are striving for a better life. Hwee the mother is expecting her second child and works full time as a secretary where she is being constantly interrupted at her office by phone calls from the school where Jiale her neglected 10 year old … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guide64 year old Caroline has retired earlier from her dental practice than she had expected too after falling out with a colleague and she now finds herself at a loose end with too much spare time on her hands. She feels somewhat depressed and disorientated after the death of her best friend from breast cancer … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideIn the opening scene we see Omar scaling the impossible high wall that the Occupying Forces have erected that not just separates Palestinians from Jews, but also Palestinians from each other. He is going to meet up with his best friends Tarak and Amjad to plan their first ever terrorist activity. Tarak mentions a Brigade … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideOscar winning filmmaker and documentarian extraordinaire Errol Morris’s latest ‘subject’ makes for compelling viewing even though he is best summed up by two very simple words ‘smug’ and ‘arrogant’. Donald Henry Rumsfeld seems to have more lives than a cat since he first burst into the public arena in 1962 when he was elected to Congress … Continue reading
