Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideMilena is an attractive 50-something-year old who lives with her husband in their comfortable middle-class home in a small suburb not far from Belgrade. She seems to spend her life of the edge of perpetually about to do something, which she never follows through on. Her days are spent aimlessly looking perplexed and anxious as … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThere is something about being a cantankerous old curmudgeon like Ove (the rather wonderful Rolf Lassgård) that one sometime secretly admires, for all the wrong reasons naturally. Every day he patrols his small suburban Swedish neighborhood removing bikes in his path, reporting illegally parked cars and even throwing old shoes at the stray cat who … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideIt is 1945 in the depth of the Polish countryside in the heart of winter and a young novice nun surreptitiously escapes from her convent and makes tracks over the snow covered fields to the nearby town to seek out a doctor. She waylays three young children playing in the street and pleads with them, to … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThe fact that Allied is a decidedly old fashioned World War 2 espionage thriller/romance from director Robert Zemeckis (Forest Gump & Back To The Future) doesn’t necessarily guarantee that this new movie will prove to be a big crowd pleaser. In fact it wouldn’t be giving too much away at this point to say that … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThis new documentary by filmmakers Hemal Trivedi and Mohammed Ali Naqvi makes a sterling attempt to a semblance of an understandable explanation of the ongoing internecine war in Pakistan between the government authorities and the Taliban insurgents. They start with the cleric Abdul Aziz Ghazi who heads up the Red Mosque network of schools known as … Continue reading