Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideDocumentary filmmaker Joshua Z. Weinstein’s feature film directing debut is an intriguing project that is not just based on a real story, but it actually stars the subject himself who has never actually acted before, and it all makes for such compelling viewing. Menashe (Menashe Lustig) is an Hassidic Jew who has been widowed … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideBritish/American journalist and filmmaker Louis Theroux is known mainly for his series of Weird Weekends documentaries which covered marginal, mostly American subcultures such as survivalists, black nationalists, white supremacists and porn stars. His whole raison d’être is based on his seemingly unquenchable thirst to bring a sense of understanding to these issues which on the surface make … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideNorman Oppenheimer (Richard Gere) is very pushy. And he’s a chancer too who just loves trying to make big financial ‘deals’ that are usually way out of his league, and with high flyers whose P.A.’s even refuse to return his calls. This new movie that charters Norman’s rise and fall throws us into the deep … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideWhen Nora (Julianne Nicholson) out of the blue took her 8 year daughter Cathleen to church one Sunday, she told the inquiring Catholic Priest, it was simply because she wanted Cathleen to be able to make her up mind up on religion when she was old enough. However when the shy studious girl turns … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideNo matter how long you nurse a dying relative it is still completely unbearable when they eventually depart this earth, particular when they are one of your children. It has been a week since 25 year Ronnie their only son has died of cancer and his Israeli parents Eyal (Shai Avivi) and Vicky (Evgenia Dodina) and … Continue reading