Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideTo mark the 50th Anniversary of the assassination of President Kennedy Oscar winning Director Bill Couturié (‘Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt’) has produced this tribute to the late President using some of the myriad of letters of condolences his widow received in the months after his death. They had a lot to choose from …. … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideIn the same manner that movie theaters hand out glasses when you go to see a 3D movie, then you should be giving a box of Kleenex if you are ever fortunate to see this heartbreaking about one exceptionally wonderful and precocious teenager. The fact that Sam’s story is so remarkably moving is not so much … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThere are very rare occasions when the somewhat jaded and sceptical Press and Movie Industry audience at the Sundance Film Festival are ever moved to tears. The genuine kind that is. The screening of this highly emotional documentary to a venerated member of the clan was one such occasion, and I swear at one time … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThe late great Charles Nelson Reilly had a tough start to life: a lobotomized aunt, an institutionalized father, a loud-mouth racist mother and he was the only gay kid on the block in the Bronx back in the 1940’s. Who would have guessed then that he would have ended up as Tony Winning Actor, acclaimed … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideI was really drawn to this movie cos I wanted to see what I had missed out on way back then when I should have been one of the Party People. In the early ‘80’s as a Brit living in London when I did visit NY I did get to enter a very scary meatpacking … Continue reading