Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThe ‘leaving’ in the title of this rather frenetic comedy refers to death and divorce and a few other departures in between. Everybody in the Altman family has both issues and secrets and the set up for us (and them) to discover them all is when the patriarch dies and his widow (their mother) insists that … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideWinfried Conradi (Peter Simonischek) loves to clown around much to the annoyance of everyone including his ex-wife, and even the postman. This suburban German ex-schoolteacher now semi-retired with just a few reluctant pupils learning piano left, his life revolves around his elderly dog and his equally old mother who lives next door. When both of … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideChris Rock is a very funny man. He is also an extremely talented actor as he proves in the role he wrote for himself in this, his third time behind the camera too. Rock plays Andre Allen a comedian who donned an animal suit to play a gun-toting sidekick to an LA cop as the … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideIn 1884 when ‘Princess Ida’ their latest Operetta for the D’Oyle Carte Company fails to ignite audiences like their previous hits it looks like the celebrated duo Arthur Sullivan and W.S. Gilbert’s run of success may be finally over. Sullivan, although newly knighted by Queen Victoria, is depressed and ill decamps to Europe vowing never … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideI could really sum up director Lynn Shelton’s latest and her least likable movie in one word : annoying. She squanders her reputation (‘Humpday’ and ‘Your Sister’s Sister) and an excellent cast (including Ellen Page, Alison Janney & Josh Pais) on this embarrassingly unfunny comedy that went down like a lead balloon when it premiered at … Continue reading