Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideAfter Lola has been dumped by her fiance just weeks before the wedding in this rather lightweight rom-com it’s clear that the full title of the piece should have been ‘Lola Versus The World’. And guess what? ‘The World’ won in this somewhat annoying struggle that a very whinny Lola has when she tries to … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThis movie starts out with a stunning long visual prologue played out to the sound of Wagner’s Tristan & Isolde that sets the tone of this powerfully dramatic story told in two parts named after two sisters. The first is Justine, who is a severely disturbed and melancholic bride, struggling to get through the lavish … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideTragedy strikes in the first few minutes of the movie when Simon a six grader whose turn it is to take the milk cartons into the empty school classroom before the lesson begins is confronted with the sight of his teacher who has just hung herself from the ceiling. What follows is not the story … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideI’ve been a fan of Ed Burns ever since his directing debut ‘THE BROTHERS MCMULLAN’ some 16 + years ago (it picked up the SUNDANCE GRAND JURY AWARD). The small slew of movies that he has written/directed and starred in since them have established him as a kind of an Irish/American Woody Allen, but without … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThe movie opens with a very confident Donna in the middle of her stand-up comedy routine in a small nondescript bar in New York. She is extremely funny and disarmingly honest as she talks candidly about the absurdities of her own life. The small audience love it and applaud her enthusiastically when she finishes her … Continue reading