Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guidePeter Dunning is an angry cantankerous old man. 68 years old, abandoned by his wife and adult children ‘they will not pick up the phone if I call,’ he lives alone working his 187 acre farm in rural Vermont. He is full of a mixture of bitterness and regret, that is occasionally peppered with his … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideWhen aspiring actor Yaniv Rokah got a part-time job as a barista in a coffee shop in Santa Monica he very quickly struck an unlikely friendship with Mimi a short sprightly octogenarian who worked at the Laundromat on the other side of Montana Avenue. Rokah became fascinated with this extraordinary colorful old lady who it turns … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThis new crowd-pleaser biopic of African/American athletic hero Jesse Owens sees his troubled world through rose colored glasses (even the Nazis running the 1936 Olympics are not THAT bad ) as it fore-mostly focuses on his remarkable achievements of winning 4 Gold Medals, with the political ramifications taking second place. The movie starts with the teenage Owens leaving Alabama and his … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideAfter his successful tenure as a Principal Dancer with the New York City Ballet and a starring role in the movie Black Swan which he also choreographed and where he met his future wife Natalie Portman, in 2014 Benjamin Millepied was offered the position of Director of the prestigious Paris Opera Ballet. One of the reasons … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThis is the third anthology in a series (with a further two in the works) that takes an affectionate look at the one of the world’s major cities with an omnibus of short movies. Like the previous two ….Paris and New York … the movie is overloaded with cinematic talent that includes some of the very best international … Continue reading