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Taking a look at the world of film through gay eyes - news, reviews, trailers, gay film, queer cinema and more

Taking a look at the world of film through gay eyes - news, reviews, trailers, gay film, queer cinema & more

Killer Joe (DVD)

October 21, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: Emile Hirsch, Matthew McConaughey, Thomas Haden Church, Juno Temple, Gina Gershon
Director: William Friedkin
Running Time: 103 mins
Certificate: 15
Release Date: October 22nd 2012

I can easily imagine a lot of people loving Killer Joe due to its dark, twisty-turny plot, while a lot of others will also thrill to the pitch black humour. However there are a lot who will find the whole thing rather nasty, cruel and repellent, so if you think you might be one of those people, you’ll probably be best to avoid this. However if you do like thrillers that go to the most sordid of places, you may well love this.

Chris (Emile Hirsch) is in need of cash and so embroils his brother, Ansel (Thomas Haden Church), in a plot to kill their heartless mother. They’re going to hire a lawman called Joe (Matthew McConaughey) who moonlights as a hired killer. It’s going to cost $25,000, but Chris has heard his mum has a $50,000 life insurance policy that will pay out to his sister, Dottie (Juno Temple). Joe wants to be paid upfront, but agrees he’ll have Dottie as a kind of retainer. However nobody has thought things out very well and things soon spiral out of control, especially when they realise just what a mean character Joe is. [Read more…]

Twice Born Trailer – Penelope Cruz & Emile Hirsch head to Sarajevo

September 6, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment


Twice Born is set to debut at the Toronto Film Festival, but before then a trailer has arrrived, which doesn’t exactly tell us much about the plot, but does give us a film for the movie’s imagery. Penelope Cruz plays single mother Gemma who returns with her teen son to present-day Sarajevo where her son’s father (Emile Hirsch) died during the Bosnian conflict of the 1990s. The movie is directed by Sergio Castellitto based on a novel by Margaret Mazzantini.

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ACTORS: Penelope Cruz, Emile Hirsch  FILMS: Twice Born  

Emile Hirsch In Talks For Lone Survivor

July 21, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Emile Hirsch is one of those actors who’s attempted to straddle the line between indie and mainstream, so that he has enough Hollywood clout to allow him to pick and choose more interesting small projects. However his mass-market movies, such as Speed Racer and The Darkest Hour, haven’t turned out too well, so he could do with a bit of a career bump.

Now he’s in early talks to star in another proper Hollywood movie, as director Peter Berg wants him for Lone Survivor, according to Variety. He’d join a cast that already includes Mark Wahlberg, Ben Foster, and Taylor Kitsch.

The project is based on the memoir of Navy SEAL Marcus Littrell, which tells his journey of survival when he and his SEAL team members were ambushed by the Taliban in Afghanistan. The soldiers were pinned down in the Hindu Kush mountains while on a mission to eliminate a terrorist. Mark Wahlberg is playing Littrell, with Ben Foster, Taylor Kitsch, and Emile Hirsch playing other SEAL team members.

Peter Ber is directing from his own adapted screenplay. It isn’t certain when the movie may shoot.

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ACTORS: Emile Hirsch, Ben Foster, Mark Wahlberg  DIRECTORS: Peter Berg  FILMS: Lone Survivor  

Paul Rudd Makes Secret Film Prince Avalanche

June 7, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

It’s tough to keep a secret in Hollywood, but it seems director David Gordon Green has managed it, as the helmer of Pineapple Express and Your Highness has managed to film a movie called Prince Avalanche, which he shot last month in Texas.

If the film had a no name cast, it might be understandable the film went under the radar, but this one stars Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch. It’s a remake of the 2011 Icelandic road trip comedy Either Way, which is set in the 1980s and follows two highway maintenance men who work in some of the country’s remotest areas. Their friendship has developed over the years they’ve shared time on the road, with much of the movie being their discussions about anything and everything, from their sex lives to their fears.

Although the Variety report about the film isn’t clear whether the new version differs from the original in any major ways, the presumption is that Rudd and Hirsch play two similar men, who chat as the travel the wilds of Texas. There’s no news on when it might hit cinemas.

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ACTORS: Paul Rudd, Emile Hirsch  DIRECTORS: David Gordon Green  

Killer Joe Trailer – Matthew McConaughey turns contract killer

May 9, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment


Who’d have thought trying to kill your mum would cause suc trouble? When 22-year-old Chris (Emile Hirsch) finds himself in debt to a drug lord, he hires a hit man to dispatch his mother, whose $50,000 life insurance policy benefits his sister Dottie (Juno Temple). Chris finds Joe Cooper (Matthew McConaughey), a creepy, crazy Dallas cop who moonlights as a contract killer. When Chris can’t pay Joe upfront, Joe sets his sight on Dottie as collateral for the job. The contract killer and his hostage develop an unusual bond. Like from a modern-day, twisted fairy tale, “Killer Joe” Cooper becomes the prince to Dottie’s Cinderella. Based on the play by Pulitzer and Tony Award winner Tracy Letts, “Killer Joe” is a garish, proactive black comedy from Academy Award-winning director William Friedkin (The Exorcist, The French Connection) and stars Emile Hirsch, Matthew McConaughey, Juno Temple, Thomas Hayden Church, and Gina Gershon. The film’s out June 29th.

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ACTORS: Matthew McConaughey, Juno Temple, Emile Hirsch  DIRECTORS: William Friedkin  FILMS: Killer Joe  

Crush Of The Day: Emile Hirsch In The Darkest Hour

January 19, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment


While I’d always known Emile Hirsch was a good looking guy, it was only when I saw the image above that I thought, ‘Yep, I’ll have me one of them!’ The 26-year-old is looking all kinds of hot as a slightly dirty, battle-weary survivor of an alien apocalypse in The Darkest Hour.

I’ve gathered together a few more pics of the Speed Racer and Into The Wild actor below, both in Darkest Hour and other movies where he’s been looking extra good. Click on them to enlarge and enjoy! [Read more…]

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ACTORS: Emile Hirsch  FILMS: The Darkest Hour  

Milk (Blu-ray)

November 1, 2011 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: Sean Penn, Josh Brolin, Emile Hirsch, Diego Luna, James Franco
Director: Gus Van Sant
Running Time: 130 mins
Certificate: 15
Release Date: June 8th, 2009

Only a few years ago, the idea of Hollywood making a movie almost completely peopled by gay characters would have been virtually unthinkable. However it seems Brokeback Mountain might have opened a few doors, as not long after that film came out both Gus Van Sant and Bryan Singer announced they’d be making movies based on the life of Harvey Milk, who in 1977 became the first openly gay man to be elected to political office in California. However Van Sant’s film was the first out of the gate, while Singer’s has now fallen by the wayside. That’s probably not a bad thing, as it’s difficult to imagine Singer’s take on the subject being better than Milk. [Read more…]

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