Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThe ‘hyena’ in this slick and brutal crime thriller is a burly bent copper called Michael Logan who plays so closely with fire, he is definitely going to get more than his fingers burned if things turn out as badly as they probably will. The film opens with Logan taking a call and then driving … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideUnlike other film actresses in her age group Oscar winner Kate Winslet has not suddenly started re-focusing her career onto playing roles in TV series. Even though her very first one Mildred Pierce potted her a Golden Globe in 2012. Winslet, recently seen on the Big Screen in Francis Lee’s glorious sophomore movie Ammonite, … Continue reading
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 guideEdward Norton’s movie which he wrote, directed and starred in and was obviously a work of passion, is an impressive film noir. Very loosely adapted from the novel of the same name by Jonathan Lethem it’s a sprawling tale set in New York in the 1950’s which evokes more than a passing memory of … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideAs WW2 ends German former nightclub singer Nelly is shot as she leaves Auschwitz and her face is severely disfigured. When she arrives back home to a war-torn Berlin, her best friend Lene takes control and whisks her off to see the best plastic surgeon money can buy. With all her Jewish family now dead … Continue reading