Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideSandra a rather harried middle-aged manager of a ‘Chickwich’ fast food restaurant in (god-forsaken) Ohio is rallying her troop of very young workers before the busy Friday night shift. She’s short-handed and also low on supplies after someone had left the Freezer door ajar overnight. It’s going to be a tough night. An hour later … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideMatt Pandamglio desperately wants to be a stand up comedian but his lame material sucks so bad that he gets booed off the few rather sad gigs he can muster. He’s in total denial not just about his ‘career’ but also about his struggling relationship with Abby his vivacious girlfriend, but when he actually starts … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideIn the 1960’s when Phil Spector ruled American pop music, we Brits crowned Joe Meek as our king. They were both very similar people. Flamboyant eccentrics bordering on insane monsters and complete control freaks dependent on heavy drug use and exploiting young unknown talents, they were geniuses nonetheless. We learn in this intriguing bio-pic of … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideJ R Ackersley was a British writer and editor who started working with the BBC in London the year after its founding in 1927. He published many emerging poets and writers who became influential in Great Britain, and later wrote his own highly successful memoir. He was also openly gay, a rarity in his time … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideWhen the French Peasants stormed the Bastille in Paris on July 14th 1789, their Queen Marie-Antoinette was holding Court elsewhere in the country at the Palace in Versailles. This rather resplendent and engaging costume drama follows the doomed Dauphine’s next three days fuelled by courtier’s gossip as all their lives start to fall apart. The … Continue reading
