Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideHome maybe where the heart is but in the early 1950’s in rural Ireland with work so scarce, this is a luxury that few young people can afford. Twenty-something-year-old Eilis can only find herself a two hour stint on a Sunday after Mass behind the counter of the village Provisions Store run by Miss Kelly, the local … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideLars is a young Danish soldier who is resentful because he has been thrown out of the Army after being accused of making a pass at some of his men. Frustrated at being back home with his pushy interfering mother, and unsure of where his life is going, he becomes easy prey for a local … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThere were such high expectations after Angelina Jolie’s second time behind the camera directing the Oscar nominated “Unbroken” from a script by the Coen brothers but sadly she has followed this up with a real dud. Pretty to look at, but painfully slow to sit though its seemingly interminable 132 minutes. This time out Ms Jolie … … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideAleksandra is desperate to escape the small industrial town where she grew up and move to Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia, and to fund her studies and the expensive apartment she is buying there she advertises her services as a prostitute in the classified ads. This is the year that it is Slovenia’s turn at … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideIn the opening scenes of John Michael McDonagh’s rather violent drama (that I perversely still insist of calling a black comedy despite its tragic ending), we see a Priest taking confession from an unseen man. “I first tasted semen when I was 7 years old’ are the first words out of his mouth and then … Continue reading