Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThe movie starts with the invasion of Palestine by the Israeli Army in 1948 and what follows is a very highly personalized account by an Arab Israeli of how life has continued there since then. Most of the story is about filmmaker Elia Suleiman’s parents, and tell how his father’s resistance to the occupying forces … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideBenjamin Mee a 40 yr. old journalist dealing with the recent death of his wife and struggling to bring up his two young children in the city, decides that his teenage son’s expulsion from school is a wake up call to re-think how they should move forward as a family. He goes house hunting and after … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThere is a scene at the start of this fictionalized account of recent US/Anglo history when President Clinton is visiting newly elected Prime Minister Tony Blair and dismays the PM by claiming that the UK cannot really claim ‘special relationship’ status with the US as that is the preserve of more important & crucial allies. … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThis award-winning explicit and powerful movie is shocking on every level. It covers a moment in recent British/Irish history that those of us who can remember, want desperately to forget. This is the struggles in Northern Ireland in the 1980’s when a group of IRA prisoners are incarcerated in the notorious Maze Prison for a … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideTime for Dominic Cooper to step up the plate to be the leading man in a movie, and instead of choosing yet another of his nice romantic guys roles he elects to play one of the most horrible men of the last few decades Uday Hussein, son of the Iraqi dictator. And if that is … Continue reading
