Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThe only one food that Nigel Slater’s mother could cook without ruining it was toast, and so consequently this was his staple diet as a young middle-class boy grooming up in Wolverhampton, a town in the British Midlands, in the 1960’s. Late at night Nigel would surreptitiously read cookery books in bed by torchlight pining … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThis is the work of the two Terences. The auteur filmmaker Terence Davies who’s uncompromising style has greatly restricted his output to just five features films sporadically over 23 years has put his own take on Terence Rattigan’s acclaimed post-WW2 play that hit a raw nerve when it was first staged in London in the … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideFresh from watching the second series of ‘Downton Abbey’ the Emmy Award winning period drama, I had a urge to seeing some more work of one of it’s biggest stars, Dame Maggie Smith who now appears to be more regal than the aristocratic characters she excels at playing. My search turned up this rather intriguing … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideSo evidently Francis Bacon was not the only who claimed that he was actually the one who wrote all of Shakespeare’s’ plays, as now we have a rather preposterous claim that the real author was the Earl of Oxford. The same man who according to this new movie, was also Queen Elizabeth’s son AND her … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideSet in 1934 on a remote island this English exclusive girl’s boarding school rears these bright but obnoxious girls to deal with the class-conscious society of the era. The focus of the story is on the diving team that has a hierarchy based on the girls ages and is led by the domineering Radfield who … Continue reading
