Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThis well-meaning biopic about a lowly Indian Clerk who is a self-taught maths genius who at the beginning of the last century claimed he could “give meaning to negative values of the gamma function” a major feat that had baffled the most learned British professors for decades, sadly does not add up to much. It is … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideFilmmaker Ridley Scott seems to send people into Space more often than even NASA. In this his latest, and most thrilling blockbuster, he has a manned space shuttle land on Mars for a couple of weeks of research but then when the crew have to suddenly evacuate in a hurry, they manage to leave one … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideLife for Thierry (Vincent Lindon) a fifty-year-old something machinist seems to get tougher and tougher since he was laid off from his job as a result of the latest economic downtown that is devastating the French provincial town that he lives in with his family. In the months since he has been unemployed he has done all … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideI guess it stands to reason if you write a banned novel back in 1796 that becomes a best-seller and it’s about a devout Catholic Monk who cannot avoid lurid sins of the flesh and has some supernatural elements, then it’s bound to get made into a movie once or twice over the next few … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideFrançois Ozon means to grab your attention from the very first frame of his movie, which shows a young bride in a wedding dress lying in a coffin surrounded by sobbing mourners. Standing besides David her husband is Claire who has been Laura’s best friend since childhood and she finishes her emotional eulogy by promising … Continue reading