Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideYou would have had to be living on another planet for the past couple of decades not to know that all the movies made by filmmaker Quentin Tarantino contain some of the most excruciating gratuitous violence ever seen on the screen. However you will also know, and hopefully appreciate, that at the same time they … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideYou could be mistaken in thinking that naming this rather pedestrian drama about middle-aged rock star The High Note an act of irony, but sadly it isn’t . In her first movie starring role, Golden Globe Winner Tracee Ellis Ross (Blackish) plays Grace Davis and cuts a dashing figure in her expensive wardrobe as … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThe Invisibles is an intriguing hybrid docudrama that bears witness to the number of German Jews who chose to go into hiding rather than being captured by the Nazis in WW2. In 1943 Goebbels the Reich Minister of Propaganda of Germany declared that after all the purges there were no Jews left in Berlin. … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThis well-meaning biopic about a lowly Indian Clerk who is a self-taught maths genius who at the beginning of the last century claimed he could “give meaning to negative values of the gamma function” a major feat that had baffled the most learned British professors for decades, sadly does not add up to much. It is … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideFilmmaker Ridley Scott seems to send people into Space more often than even NASA. In this his latest, and most thrilling blockbuster, he has a manned space shuttle land on Mars for a couple of weeks of research but then when the crew have to suddenly evacuate in a hurry, they manage to leave one … Continue reading