Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideAlthough Amir Bar-Lev’s new documentary is about the sexual abuse that infamous Penn State football coach Jerry Sandusky carried out on scores of young boys over a 15 year period, the focus is less on the crimes themselves but about the whole culture surrounding them and the devastating effects on that college town. Initially … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThe real-life story of Hollywood back-room couple Harold and Lillian Michelson is the sort of stuff that movies used to be made of. It’s a good old-fashioned true romance made more appealing by the fact that there were such a couple of really such likable people. They were both happy enough being together and just … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideHerb & Dorothy Vogel were seemingly a very ordinary New York couple. He was a Postal Inspector, and she was a Librarian and they married in 1962, the year after they met and they lived frugally surrounded by cats in a tiny one bed apartment in Manhattan. What makes them extraordinary is since they met … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideRichard Trank’s 2007 profile on Simon Wiesenthal opens with a clip of a very young Barbara Walters repeating the same question on every journalist lips at the time ‘isn’t it time to forget?’ She’s asking this of Holocaust survivor Wiesenthal the intrepid hunter of Nazi War Criminals who would never ever give up his quest … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideIn the 1970’s John Cazale starred in five motion pictures all of which were nominated for Best Picture Oscars (with 4 of them winning them). His co-stars were the heavyweights of the profession and between them they collected another 12 Oscars for their work in these classic movies, and in this HBO Documentary they lined … Continue reading