Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideDoes the end ever justify the means? If agitprop is acceptable, where do we draw the fine line when it melds into environmental terrorism? This gripping new thriller which pitches us all against the inequities of large industrial conglomerates who are poisoning and polluting both us and our planet raises these questions, although the network of … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesFrom Eytan Fox the Director of ‘Yossi and Jaegar’ comes a story of a Mossad Agent who is ordered to track and down and kill one of the last remaining Nazi war criminals before he can die a natural death. To find his man, he is expected to act as a Tour Guide and befriend the … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThis is the story of how the celebrated and somewhat notorious writer Truman Capote was fascinated and became obsessed by the brutal murder of a whole family in a deserted Kansas Farmhouse that became his most successful book ever, the sensational ‘In Cold Blood’. This is THE role that the brilliant Philip Seymour Hoffman was born … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesIn this lightweight implausible and gloriously silly movie Robert Downey Jnr. plays a petty thief who specializes in robbing toy stores and who stumbles into being an actor in a twist that only happens in movies. To train him for the role of a Private Eye, the film’s Producers assign him to work with a gay … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories queertiquesThis was the first serious approach to homosexuality the cinema had ever made. Made in Britain in 1961 where, as in the US, being gay was still a crime, the movie was actually banned from American theaters simply because it used the word ‘homosexual’. The story is of a handsome young man called ‘Boy’ Barrett who … Continue reading
