Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideIn less than 24 hours a major Wall Street Investment Firm (that seemed awfully like Lehman Brothers) jolts from success to near death in a story that would have been inconceivable before this current financial free fall started in 2008 … or maybe not. The meltdown starts when in the midst of a round of … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guide‘Schastye Moe’ is the original name for this ultra-bleak Russian movie and somehow something got lost in the translation, as no way can it be called My Joy (or anyone else’s joy for that matter). Tough to fathom out, its actually a series of single scenarios, some that have a linking thread, and others that … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideEx fashion guru Tom Ford may start his new movie in the vacuous and pretentious wealthy L.A. art world where everyone is obsessed with appearances, but the other two strands of this multi-layered story take them, and us way out of our comfort zone. After her latest rather outrageous Opening featuring obese naked middle-aged female … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideIn the opening scene we see Omar scaling the impossible high wall that the Occupying Forces have erected that not just separates Palestinians from Jews, but also Palestinians from each other. He is going to meet up with his best friends Tarak and Amjad to plan their first ever terrorist activity. Tarak mentions a Brigade … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThere’s an awful lot of violence, and a great deal of red, and hardly any screenplay and just a mere hint of emotion in Nicolas Winding Refn’s controversial new movie that the Critics have either vehemently panned or praised lavishly: there is no sitting on the fence on this one. Julien, a man of very … Continue reading