Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideFDR was evidently quite the whizz at fooling a lot of people a lot of the time, and yet when he was found out, it appears he was always forgiven. Eventually. With the co-operation of the media who never photographed him a wheelchair most of the American general public never knew that they were re-electing … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideIn this year that Hollywood is becoming increasingly fixated about retelling some historical biographical lives, I guess it’s no surprise to see Alfred Hitchcock on the list. Not once however, but twice. Although technically HBO’s ‘That Girl’ about Hitchcock’s obsession with Tippi Hedren starring Toby Jones and Sienna Miller was a Brit made-for -TV film. This … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThe late great Kenneth Williams could easily be described as Britain’s own Charles Nelson Reilly. Both men were celebrated classical trained actors who worked with all the major stars of their day, but they actually found their own fame with their outrageously camp and genius comic humor which made them both much loved national treasures. … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideIn 1979 at the height of the Iranian unrest angry mobs in Tehran stormed the US Embassy taking the 52 members of staff hostage. Unbeknown to the militants 6 members of the Visa Department, which had it’s own street entrance, managed to escape and were given refuge by the Canadian Ambassador and his wife in … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThis is yet again another story so bizarre that it just had to be true, and this dramatized movie tells of a very witty and courageous young man who just wanted to have sex once before he died. Mark O’Brien had polio as a kid and although he wasn’t paralyzed his muscles were so extensively damaged … Continue reading
