Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideIn the dead of night, a group of 10 men, including a police commissioner, his Arab driver, a prosecutor, a doctor, diggers and two self confessed killers drive through the desolate steppes of the Anatolian countryside, and the empty winding roads are only lit by the headlights of their convoy. They are searching for a … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideAnd Inordinately Nondescript’ would complete the title of this movie about a 11 year old boy coming to grips with his father who died in the World Trade Center on 9/11 which I think was meant to have us reaching for our Kleenex instead I was checking out where the nearest exit was. Oskar the … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideWhen this movie first surfaced I quickly dismissed it as something that only people with a penchant for baseball and/or Brad Pitt would be want to see, and I have no interest in either. Mr Pitt is a pleasant enough actor and has been fortunate to have been in some very good movies, but I’ve … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThe most satisfying aspect of actor Vera Farmiga’s directorial debut movie is that although it is about the spiritual conflict of one woman as she drifts between skepticism and religious faith it never ever takes sides as she strives for the higher ground. We first see Corrine as a child when she responds to her … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideIt’s rare to get the whole crux of a movie in an opening scene but that’s exactly what happens here when we see Nader & Simin facing a judge on their own in an otherwise empty room arguing about getting a divorce. They are a successful middle-aged professional couple living in present day Iran who had agreed in principle … Continue reading
