Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThis wonderful new crime thriller written by Denis Lehane (‘Mystic River’,’Gone Baby Gone’) set in Boston his hometown, is the story of Bob a solitary loner who is a bartender is his cousin Marv’s bar. Well the name over the door is still Marv’s but after he got heavily into debt gambling, he was forced to … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideJohn Eleuthère du Pont the spoilt heir to the vast Dupont chemical fortune was a dangerous paranoid psychopath who ended up destroying lives when he didn’t get his own way. The fact that he was also a deeply disturbed closeted homosexual is also very obvious in this new chilling true crime drama based on his … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideHollywood has a knack of bungling the adaption of hit Broadway musicals when it tries to capture the same magic for the silver screen. Just think of the turgid ‘Les Miserables’ in 2012, or the excruciatingly painful ‘Nine’ in 2009. However when they get it right as with Tim Burton’s take on ‘Sweeney Todd’, or discovering … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideAfter her cancer-ridden mother died just aged 45, Cheryl Strayed fell to pieces. Heavily in debt and with her marriage disintegrating she developed an obsession for sleeping with countless strangers and an addiction to heroin. Her solution to finding a path to recovery and do some major soul-searching was deciding to hike alone the entire … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideGetting left behind by your Army platoon when you go on a dangerous military mission is not exactly a novel idea in the movies, but this new version with rising star Jack O’Connell, this feature debut from TV director Yann Demange is certainly one of the best. Set in Belfast, Northern Ireland in the height of … Continue reading
