Roger Rees William’s award-winning documentary is based on the best selling book by Ron Suskind about Owen his autistic son. It tells the tale of how Suskind, a Pulitzer Award winning writer with The Wall Street Journal, and his wife Cornelia dealt with the discovery that at the age of 3 years old Owen was diagnosed with autism, and how the family embarked on a remarkable journey together over the next 20 years.
It is unquestionably one of the most inspirational movies of the year.
queerguru reviews for P.T.V.Casey Affleck’s career best performance in Manchester By The Sea which is currently being nominated for almost every major acting award, and Best Picture too.
Moonlight is probably the most exquisite and understated LGBT coming-of-age story to hit our screens for years. Light on plot and even sparse on dialogue, it nevertheless packs a powerful punch showing the inner turmoil of an African/American youth coming to terms with his own sexuality as he grows up in one of the tougher aggressively machismo neighborhoods of Miami.
It has been wowing audiences up and down the country …. even the NY Times has declared it ‘one of the best movies of 2106’ …… and accolades do not get much higher than that. Here on the eve of it’s screening at the Waters Edge Cinema in P.Town is queerguru’s own review filmed for P.T.V.
It’s been a few years since Richard Gere ‘carried’ a movie as the main star, and it is so good to see him back in a role that suits him so well. He plays Norman Oppenheimer a very likable pushy chancer who is always convinced that the biggest break of his life, is always around the corner, and he is almost right . Several times.
This is one of those hard-to-believe it’s true stories that never really grabbed the attention of the media so when you come to it in ignorance and it unfolds on the screen and you hear the horrifying incredulous details, you cannot fail to be stunned into a combination of shock and anger. The latter particularly if you identify as LGBT as this outrageous case of mis-justice is deeply rooted in intransigent homophobia.
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