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 guideBut not such good spirits for the family or the guests in this vacuous trite period British costume drama that never rose above being anything other than grossly irritating and very tiresome indeed. The year is 1923 and its a glorious early Fall day at the Thatcham’s Family’s large Country House. It’s just a … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideStephen Spielberg’s epic take on Abraham Lincoln’s fight to abolish slavery can be described simply as a cinematic masterpiece. Penned by Tony Kushner (from Doris Kearns Goodwin’s best selling novel) with a magnificent intrepid cast, it is unquestionably one of THE best movies of the year. The Academy Award for Best Actor is Daniel Day-Lewis’s … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideI discovered this amusing parody of all those Merchant/Ivory British period costume dramas when researching the work of late great Peter Ustinov, and it rather tickled me to be reminded of how very silly Brit comedies can be. This one is like an EM Forster novel (with a nod to Thomas Mann’s ‘Death in … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThere is something quite deliciously old-fashioned about veteran Australian director Fred Schepisi’s latest movie that gives you the distinct feeling that it actually may have been made 20 years ago. It’s all about a domineering matriarch who has been a total control freak all her life : staff, children and local society, and now she … Continue reading
