Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideWhen the editors of The New York Times discovered that investigative journalist Michael Finkel had tinkered with the truth when he filed a report of modern day slavery in Africa they promptly fired him. Licking his wounds back home in Montana the disgraced reporter tried to kickstart his stalled career but he was shunned by everyone, … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThe failed marriage of John Ruskin one of England’s celebrated Art Critic was one of biggest sex scandals of the Victorian era. Although in this instance the public embarrassment was for a change actually about the lack of sex! Effie Gray his very young virgin bride took the unprecedented step of suing her husband for … 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
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideFor her third time behind the camera actress/ superstar, UN Special Ambassador, Honorary Dame of the British Empire, and mother of countless children, Angelina Jolie plumped for a rather old-fashioned WW2 drama. With a script from Oscar winners Ethan and Joel Cohen (who rarely write for other directors) adapted from Laura Hillenbrand’s best-selling biography, ‘Unbroken’ … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideJohn Eleuthère du Pont the spoilt heir to the vast Dupont chemical fortune was a dangerous paranoid psychopath who ended up destroying lives when he didn’t get his own way. The fact that he was also a deeply disturbed closeted homosexual is also very obvious in this new chilling true crime drama based on his … Continue reading
