Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideWhen Claire Bennett is asked to follow the other members of her touchy-feely support group as they express shock and sadness over the loss of Nina one of their members who jumped to her death, she ruthlessly responds with sarcasm, finishing with ‘Way to go, Nina!’ The annoyingly patronizing Social Worker leading the session is … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesNow that Tobi has reached his late 60’s he has exchanged his once hectic glamorous life as a ballet dancer and celebrated choreographer for that of dance Professor who after teaching class prefers a solitary life at home with just a pair of knitting needles for company. He is however quite flattered when a young woman writes to ask … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThe reclusive writer Thomas Pynchon is known for his dense and complex novels which he has never allowed to be adapted into movies, until now that is. When ‘Inherent Vice’ his seventh novel was published in 2009 the dust jacket proclaimed that it was ‘part-noir, part-psychedelic romp’. In the hands of auteur filmmaker Paul Thomas … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesAlice and Frank have been married for 18 years and are moving with their three children (and Taski their pet rabbit) to a new apartment in the Swiss countryside. From the outside they seem like the perfect nuclear family but as they arrange their furniture and settle into their new home, Alice notices that her … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThis extraordinary wonderful new film that finally brings Nobel Peace Laureate Dr. Martin Luther King centre stage in a Hollywood movie focuses on just one of the most crucial periods in his life. After the landmark 1964 Civil Rights Act had made segregation illegal, most of the South simply ignored the new Law and still … Continue reading
