Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideIn this year that Hollywood is becoming increasingly fixated about retelling some historical biographical lives, I guess it’s no surprise to see Alfred Hitchcock on the list. Not once however, but twice. Although technically HBO’s ‘That Girl’ about Hitchcock’s obsession with Tippi Hedren starring Toby Jones and Sienna Miller was a Brit made-for -TV film. This … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThis award-winning explicit and powerful movie is shocking on every level. It covers a moment in recent British/Irish history that those of us who can remember, want desperately to forget. This is the struggles in Northern Ireland in the 1980’s when a group of IRA prisoners are incarcerated in the notorious Maze Prison for a … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideFDR was evidently quite the whizz at fooling a lot of people a lot of the time, and yet when he was found out, it appears he was always forgiven. Eventually. With the co-operation of the media who never photographed him a wheelchair most of the American general public never knew that they were re-electing … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThomas is just 5 years old when his mother gives him up for adoption, and his younger brother Patrick is still a baby. But Thomas never forgets this rather wild woman who abandons them rather than trying to cope, and he never stops obsessing for one single moment about finding his mother again. The Jouvets … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThis is the implausible true story about a young dark French man passing himself off as a blond American teenager who had been missing for some years. I actually remember reading this story in The New Yorker a while back and was flabbergasted then, but now seeing the whole scenario skillfully re-enacted on the big … Continue reading