Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideWriter/director Alex Holdridge knows that one of the reasons he is an independent filmmaker is that he has no need for a therapist. When life throws a wobbly or two, he can simply work through it by making a movie about it all, and that is exactly what he has done here as he recalls … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideIn the same year that the UK’s Royal Shakespeare Company films a live performance of ‘Much Ado’ at The Globe Theatre in London is there really a need for yet another movie of this classic comedy? After seeing Joss Whedon’s exhilarating contemporary version, the answer is a very definite ‘yes’! Writer/director Whedon best known for ‘Buffy … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideJonah is a scruffy twenty-something who lives in a large ramshackled house in Sydney’s inner city that he inherited from his parents and now shares with his two best friends Gus and Stevie with whom he makes a passable living throwing weekly wild house parties. Money may be tight, but there is plenty of drugs, sex … 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
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guide41 year old Francois is being released from the Mental Hospital he was committed too when he suddenly lost his rag one day and threw a rather big tantrum. He should have been really happy as he had everything going for him, Anna a woman who loves him, two children from a previous marriage, and a … Continue reading