Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThe opening scene of this film is a ceremony where Uriel Shkolnik is being honored as a new member of the prestigious Israeli Academy, and the camera stays completely focused on Eliezer his father who sits in the audience totally stony-faced even when Uriel is lavishly praising him. It neatly sets the whole timbre of … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThis very funny documentary about one man’s quest to hoist the US’s hit tv situation comedy ‘Everybody Loves Raymond’ on an unsuspecting Russian audience could be subtitled ‘Lost in Translation’. Written, directed and starring Phil Rosenthal the creator of the TV show, its about the frustrations of adapting the hit series for Russian TV. Neither … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideWhen it comes to bizarre this enchanting quirky tale about a loner taking his dying best (and only) friend on a road trip is definitely up there. Especially when you know that the said best friend is a dwarf hamster named Etienne. Richard drifts through his gentle small life. He’s just got a new job … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideWhen a disparate group of middle-class Brits discover that their limited pensions will not provide them with much of a retirement they abandon their homeland and get enticed by some advertisements for THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL, which lays claims to a luxurious sanctuary for “the elderly and beautiful” in Jaipur, India. The seven of … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideBased on a script by the late great Jacques Tati the French comic genius and directed by Sylvain Chomet (‘The Triplets of Belleville’) one knew that this film would have to be good. And probably even much better than that. And it was, and more. The story involves a sad lanky French magician named Tatischeff … Continue reading
