Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideVeteran Australian filmmaker Bruce Beresford (Driving Miss Daisy) has evidently taken some 25 years to adapt the the bestselling novel by Madeleine St John to the screen. The result is a decidedly old-fashioned comedy drama that highlights the gentle world of Sydney in 1959 with just a hint of a message about the settlement … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideLady Bird thankfully is nothing to do with the wife of the 39th President of the United States, but is the self-given name of a feisty 17 year Sacramento girl who is finishing her final year in High School. The year is 2002 and Lady Bird (Saoirse Ronan) is constantly being reminded of how grateful … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThis is a tale of a family that has secrets that it keeps from each other, until they get found out that is. It centers on two sisters : 20 something-year-old Dana (Jenny Slate) who is almost grown up, or so she thinks. She works as a copywriter at a trendy Manhattan magazine, and lives … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThis is one of those old-fashioned screwball comedies that Hollywood may have given up on, but seemingly is still a film genre that has a place in Italian cinema This is the tale of a 60-ish-year-old Jewish psychoanalyst Elio (Toni Servillo) who is so bored with most of his patients that he is quietly tucking into pastries … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideDespite the title, life hardly seems like a breeze for three generations of this Irish family who live hand to mouth in a Dublin suburb. The matriarch Nan is a bit of a hoarder so the rest of the family devise a plan to get her out of her House one day so that they can … Continue reading