Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideJessica Chastain gives a powerful career-best performance in the title role of the excellent Miss Sloane which is unquestionably the most compelling political thriller of the year and which will certainly captivate audiences everywhere …. particularly ones that include feminists …. and may finally give Miss Chastain the Best Actress Oscar that she has been nominated … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideActor Patrick Wilson could pass for disgraced ex New York Governor Eliot Spitzer if the lighting was just right, but this rather clumsy drama that is either based or inspired by Spitzer’s downfall, just couldn’t ever be mistaken for the real thing. Wilson plays Sam Ellis who is a Federal prosecutor who is on the … 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 political /crime drama is set in 1990s Belfast, and when Colette McVeigh an active member of the IRA is caught red-handed planting a bomb at an London Underground Station she is ‘persuaded’ to become an informant for the MI5 in order not just to remain free but to protect her young son’s welfare. Her … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideOnce all the gung-ho members of George W’s gun slinging gang of cronies decided to go to War in Iran on the most misguided of excuses they need a pretext to justify their actions. Scrabbling around to uncover any minute bit of evidence they seized on reports that Niger, an African nation, had sold uranium … Continue reading
