Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThe reason that I sit in a movie theater as often as I do is my eternal hope that every movie I watch will be so near perfect that it will just blow me away. In reality it’s a rarity, but tonight was one such occasion. Watching ‘Bill Cunningham New York’, a wonderful moving and … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideIf I were a member of the Academy I would give the Best Actor gong to Javier Bardem for his heart-wrenching performance as Uxebel in ‘Biutiful’. It’s not that I do not appreciate Mr. Firth’s stunning stammering turn which will inevitably get him the Oscar, its just watching Mr. Bardem intriguingly peel back all the … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideLast January at my first Sundance I discovered movie fatigue. Well, that’s what I thought at the time when I came out of a screening of ‘Blue Valentine’ extremely under whelmed, yet seemingly everyone else there was raving (!) about the film. Flash forward to now when the movie is on the big screen at the … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideIt’s so hard to avoid not being more than a tad suspicious when some bright spark decides to remark a classic film noir, esp. when they turn out to be such insipid copies of the original. Think the stunning ‘Plein Soliel’ turned into ‘The Talented Mr. Ripley’. Remember? I rest my case! So I was more … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideFor the best part of 25 years Ilich Ramirez Sanchez was one of the world’s most wanted fugitives as he, and his gang, wreaked havoc and a whole trail of death and destruction as possibly the most pernicious terrorists of the last century. Infamously known as ‘Carlos The Jackal’ he achieved notoriety with his audacious … Continue reading