Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThis feel-good French fairy story with its funny hybrid title is about a pair of ‘untouchables’. One is Philipe a very wealthy Parisian aristocrat who is now paralyzed from the neck down after a paragliding accident, and the other is Driss an African immigrant newly released from jail and living in the projects who unwittingly … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThis is an absurd and strange comedy that hooked me at the beginning (weird in my book is a very good thing) but then it went off on so many tangents that it spoilt what I had thought/hoped would be a really funny wee movie. Henry is the brilliant kid at the center of the … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideAll Sharon wants for her birthday from her slacker unemployed 30 year-old son Jeff who lives in her basement, is that he gets off the couch and catches the bus to the hardware store to get some wood glue to fix a broken shutter. Jeff, a big lump of a man, is more than happy … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideNearly every time I leave my comfort zone cinematically speaking and go see a movie that I instinctively know that I am not going to like/possibly loath even, I end up wishing I had stayed at home. I saw nothing in the trailer that I thought I would like about this one at all, but much to my … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideIf I could get to choose to come back in my next life to a world created by a filmmaker it would have to one by inspired fantasist Wes Anderson, and preferably the one where ‘Moonrise Kingdom’ is based. In this his 7th feature he conjures up an idyllic 1965 New England sunny summer on … Continue reading
