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Selma Trailer – David Oyelowo takes on a key moment in MLK’s civil rights struggle

November 7, 2014 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

You wouldn’t think making a movie about one of the most important moments in the Civil Rights struggle in the US would be that difficult to get off the ground, but Selma faced a massive struggle. Even with Lee Daniels directing and a high profile cast attached (including Hugh Jackman and others), it couldn’t get funding).

However now it’s finally happened, with Ava DuVernay directing and David Oyelowo, Tom Wilkinson, Cuba Gooding Jr., Alessandro Nivola, Giovanni Ribisi Common, Carmen Ejogo, Lorraine Toussaint, Tim Roth, and Oprah Winfrey starring.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘SELMA is the story of a movement. The film chronicles the tumultuous three-month period in 1965, when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led a dangerous campaign to secure equal voting rights in the face of violent opposition. The epic march from Selma to Montgomery culminated in President Johnson (Tom Wilkinson) signing the Voting Rights Act of 1965, one of the most significant victories for the civil rights movement. Director Ava DuVernay’s SELMA tells the story of how the revered leader and visionary Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (David Oyelowo) and his brothers and sisters in the movement prompted change that forever altered history.’

Selma opens in a few US cinemas on December 25th, 2014, and will go wide in early January. A February 6th UK release is planned. [Read more…]

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ACTORS: David Oyelowo, Tom Wilkinson, Alessandro Nivola, Giovanni Ribisi, Carmen Ejogo, Tim Roth, Oprah Winfrey, Cuba Gooding Jr. FILMS: Selma

Red Tails (DVD)

October 29, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: Cuba Gooding Jr., Gerald McRaney, David Oyelowo, Terrence Howard, Ne-Yo
Director: Anthony Hemingway
Running Time: 120 mins
Certificate: 12
Release Date: October 29th 2012

George Lucas first wanted to make a movie about the Tuskegee Airmen in 1988, but it’s taken until now to get it to the screen. That’s partly due to the fact that every studio turned him down, feeling a big, historical war movie with a largely African American cast wasn’t commercial enough. They were wrong, but unfortunately Red Tails isn’t the film to prove it.

After Lucas stumped up the budget himself the film was finally made with Anthony Hemingway directing, but it was plagued by delays and reshoots, and finally got released over two years after it was first shot. The result isn’t a bad film, but it’s one that’s so clichéd it never rises above the passable. [Read more…]

Cuba Gooding Jr’s Dad Asked Tom Cruise If He Was Gay

February 17, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Rumours that Tom Cruise is secretly gay have followed him around ever since his earliest days in Hollywood, despite there being little substantive evidence that it’s true. However few people have dared to directly ask him about it, except for Cuba Gooding Jr’s father, that is!

During an appearance on tonight Graham Norton Show, Cuba recounted what happened when his dad visited him on the set of Jerry Maguire. Gooding Jr. says, “He gave Tom Cruise a hug and said, ‘I love you man. Now seriously, are you gay or not?’ I almost fainted and thought, please Lord, let me disappear. Tom just laughed and said ‘no’.”

Cuba then jokingly says that he subsequently banned his father from the film set.

Cruise has long dealt with gay rumours and on occasion he’s even sued when men have tried make money by claiming to have slept with him (it should be noted there’s been little evidence the people he sued were telling the truth). Some have suggested he encouraged the rumours when he was a young actor working his way up the fame ladder, but has since been unable to get rid of them, despite marriages to Nicole Kidman and Katie Holmes.

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ACTORS: Tom Cruise, Cuba Gooding Jr.

Red Tails – Seven Minute Preview

January 11, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

It’s taken a long time to get Red Tails from shoot to cinema (it filmed well over two years ago), but the George Lucas produced Red Tails is finally on its way, and while there’s no definite UK date yet, it’s released in the US later this month. In hope of getting people excited, a seven minute preview of the movie has been released, which largely shows off the spectacular aerial dogfight footage (Lucas has said it’s the closest people will ever get to Star Wars VII), as well as a few quieter scenes. The film is about a crew of African American pilots in the Tuskegee training program, who, having faced segregation and been kept mostly on the ground during World War II, are called into duty under the guidance of Col. A.J. Bullard.

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ACTORS: Cuba Gooding Jr., Terrence Howard DIRECTORS: Anthony Hemingway FILMS: Red Tails

Red Tails Trailer

November 10, 2011 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

After endless post-production delays and reports that producer George Lucas demanded huge amounts of reshoots on his long-planned movie about the legendary Tuskegee arimen, anticipation has certainly dropped for Ted Tail. However the trailers certainly make it look good! The film is about a crew of African American pilots in the Tuskegee training program, who, having faced segregation and been kept mostly on the ground during World War II, are called into duty under the guidance of Col. A.J. Bullard. No official UK date has been set yet, but it arrives in the US on January 20th (and it’ll be interesting to see if it gets an Oscar qualifying run in LA before that, or if they just don’t bother).

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ACTORS: Cuba Gooding Jr., Terrence Howard, David Oyelowo, Bryan Cranston, Josh Dallas DIRECTORS: Anthony Hemingway FILMS: Red Tails