Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideIt’s rare to get the whole crux of a movie in an opening scene but that’s exactly what happens here when we see Nader & Simin facing a judge on their own in an otherwise empty room arguing about getting a divorce. They are a successful middle-aged professional couple living in present day Iran who had agreed in principle … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideWriter/director Hirokazu Koreeda’s extraordinary and brilliant new film about a disparate Japanese makeshift family may start in a gentle and slightly confusing manner, but by the time the final credits role you will be totally engrossed in the movie that won the prestigious Palme d’Or at Cannes last summer. The family live crammed into a small dilapidated … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideIt took Martin Scorsese several decades to bring Shūsaku Endō’s 1966 celebrated epic novel Silence about religious persecution in 17th Century Japan to the screen, and this obvious project of passion is one of the filmmaker’s most visually stunning movies to date. Endō, a Japanese Roman Catholic, based his story on an historical figure Cristóvão Ferreira a Portuguese … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guide16-year-old Jay Cavendish travels from Scotland to Colorado in hot pursuit of the object of his affections after she had to flee the country in haste when her father had accidentally killed a local aristocratic landowner. It’s the 1880’s and the naïve young Scot is totally unprepared for the rough Wild West and all the … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideJust when you may have felt that there could be nothing more new to say about the Holocaust comes one the most powerfully disturbing movies ever that plunge you into the abysses of hell from the very first scene. This brilliant new movie is the debut feature written and directed by Hungarian filmmaker László Nemes that … Continue reading