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

James Franco Is Unimpressed By Shame’s Depiction Of Sex Addiction And Gay Sex

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james-francoShame was very well received by the critics on its 2011, with many praising Michael Fassbender’s performance (and his penis) as a sex addict. However not everyone was impressed, and that includes James Franco.

In his regular column for VICE, he writes, ‘He wasn’t such an addict in my opinion, though. I mean, what did he do? Watch porn and screw a handful of people a week? I could point to quite a few folks who do that. And that scene where he’s at his lowest point and wants to fuck and goes into a gay club, and it’s depicted like the seventh level of hell… I mean, it goes back to the horrible representations of gays in the 70s, where the gay club is meant to signify everything dark and depraved. Then the guy gets a minor blowjob, from, Oh no, a man! The horror!’

He’s right about the gay club, as there is an element that it’s been okay when he was just screwing chicks, but he’s sunk as low as you can get when he wants a BJ from a guy. Sure he’s a straight man so it does show how strong the need for some sort of sexual release is, but the film does make it seem it’s the gayness that’s the issue.

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Tar Trailer – James Franco, Jessica Chastain And Mila Kunis star

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James Franco is a busy boy both as an actor and director. Although it seems difficult to imagine he’s have time to fit any more in, we’ve now got a trailer for Tar, which sees Franco team up with Mila Kunis, Jessica Chastain, Henry Hopper and Zach Braff.

The film is ‘based on Pulitzer prize-winning poet CK Williams’ collection of the same name. The film blends together adaptations of 11 of the poems to create a poetic road trip through CK William’s life. The film takes us on a journey through several decades of American life from CK’s childhood and adolescence in Detroit in the 1940s and 50s to the early 1980s: CK and his wife Catherine are married with their son Jed. CK prepares for a reading of ‘Tar’ in New York City, and spends his nights struggling to write new poems, haunted by memories of his past. As CK drives to his reading in New York City, he remembers central moments of his life: we come to experience and understand both his relationship to love and loss, and how he found his calling as a poet through the women in his life. The film takes us back and forth between past and present, punctuated by voice-over from CK Williams’ poems, recreating the experience of memory and exploring how the fragments of one’s man life can be turned.’

A December US release is set. [Read more…]

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James Franco Opens Up On Why He Loves Everything Gay

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james-francoThere’s little doubt that James Franco is a fan of the gays. He’s played gay character, as while as writing and directing movies on gay themes, such as Sal, Interior Leather Bar and The Broken Tower. His love of all things LGBT has intrigued many, who’ve wondered why a straight man is so intrigued by all things gay.

He’s been talking about it in a new interview with TheDailyBeast, who questioned him on the recurring gay themes and characters that are present in his work. Take a look at an excerpt below:

You do seem to be very fascinated with gay characters and capturing their inner struggle amid an inequitable society, whether it’s in Milk, or your films The Broken Tower and Sal. Where do you think this fascination stems from?
It’s not like it’s my mission to tell the stories of as many gay men as possible, although in some cases, I think it is the point. In Milk, the point is to show one of the great fighters for equal rights for the gay community, so I was happy to do that. With characters like Allen Ginsberg [in Howl], my love for him started with his work when I was a teenager. So his sexuality is secondary to me. It’s an important aspect of who he was and his character, but it wasn’t like, “Yes, I want to play another gay role,” it was more, “Yes, I’d love to play another one of my heroes.”

It’s also a huge step forward to even see humanistic portrayals of gay characters onscreen. Growing up, most of the gay characters I was privy to in films were of the camp variety, or in some bizarre cases, as killers like Buffalo Bill in The Silence of the Lambs. With the exception of Philadelphia, the early ‘90s was a very strange time for gay characters in mainstream cinema.
Yeah. Once I choose a subject, if that’s part of who they are and their character, I’m not going to shy away from portraying that. And of course I’m for equal rights and will do whatever I can do to help make that happen. But I feel like because I’ve done more gay characters, gay scenes, or gay projects than most straight actors, people see it as some sort of mission. It’s more of a case-by-case basis, and just trying to capture figures that I love. I guess that a lot of the figures that I love were gay.

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Homefront Red Band Trailer – Jason Statham deals with a nasty James Franco

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James Franco and Jason Statham might not seem like obvious co-stars, but then Franco never likes to do the expected. With Homefront he not only has an unexpected co-star, but he get to work from a script by Sylvester Stallone, and play the extremely nasty bad guy.

The movie is about Phil Broker (Statham), a former DEA agent who moves his family to a quiet town to escape his past. However, he discovers the town is overrun by a dangerous meth distributor named Gator (James Franco).

While Stallone wrote the script, based on Chuck Logan’s novel, he neither stars not directs the film. The film’s due out in late November in the US and December 6th in the UK. Take a look at the new, dramatic red-band trailer above. [Read more…]

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Lizzy Caplan Joins James Franco & Seth Rogen In The Interview

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lizzy-caplanIt’s a Freaks and Geeks reunion, as Lizzy Caplan has signed on for the female lead in Sony Pictures’ comedy The Interview, joining fellow Geeks alumni Seth Rogen and James Franco, according to Variety.

The movie is about a talk show host (believed to be Franco’s character) and a producer (Seth Rogen), who get caught up in a plot to assassinate the prime minister of North Korea. No details have been released about Lizzy Caplan’s character.

Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, who made their directorial debuts with this summer’s This Is the End, are directing from a script they co-wrote with The Daily Show’s Dan Sterling.

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James Franco Kisses A Guy In Staged Paparazzi Shots

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James Franco is at it again, this time taking to his Instagram account to post staged paparazzi shots, complete with Perez Hilton style scrawls on top. We’re presuming it’s some sort of arty thing, where he’s making a point about how gossip websites take images and run them out of context, while plastering famous people’s stars all over the place, without actually knowing anything about them.

Or maybe he’s just having a laugh.

And this being Franco, he couldn’t help himself but go a few slightly gay shots, where he kisses a guy. There are also some where he’s in a car with a mystery blond. Personally we like the ones with the cute guy better.

Hey, perhaps this is his way of telling us he has both a girlfriend and a boyfriend! Who knows?

Take a look at the pics above and below. [Read more…]

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Homefront Trailer – James Franco faces off against Jason Statham

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James Franco and Jason Statham don’t seem like obvious co-stars, but Franco continues his ridiculously eclectic career with Homefront, which see James as a very nasty character who goes up against Statham.

The movie is about Phil Broker (Jason Statham), a former DEA agent who moves his family to a quiet town to escape his past. However, he discovers the town is overrun by a dangerous meth distributor named Gator (James Franco).

Interestingly the script was written by Sylvester Stallone, based on Chuck Logan’s novel, although he neither stars not directs the film. It’s due out in November. Take a look at the trailer above. [Read more…]

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James Franco Says “I Wish I Was Gay” While Talking About The Jokes At His Roast

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james-francoA couple of weeks ago James Franco got roasted, which involved lots of his friends and colleagues standing up to make fun of him, and as many noted, there were are awful lot of gay jokes, which veered from the intelligent (particularly Aziz Ansari’s riff on why everyone else was doing gay jokes) to those that bordered on homophobia.

Now Franco has been addressing the slight controversy that erupted, telling The Daily Beast “There’s two sides to what happened in the Roast. If that’s what they were going to make fun of me for, I was like, ‘Great! Bring on the gay jokes!’ because these aren’t insults at all. I don’t even care if people think I’m gay, so it was like, ‘Awesome!’ I mean, I wish I was…I wish I was gay.”

“Why?,” asked the Beast

“I mean … we don’t have to go into it. But as far as that larger phenomenon that you’re talking about that happens to other actors, part of it is that movies are a place where people can project things and identify with characters, and it’s the same thing with actors outside of their roles—and it’s been that way since Hollywood was around. That’s why there’s a lot of conjecture. That’s been one of my things, too. My relationship with my public image over the past four or five years has just become weirder and weirder, because I look at it and it’s me, and it’s not me, so if other people want to use that for their own purposes or needs, I’m fine with it.”

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Rachel McAdams Joins James Franco In Every Thing Will Be Fine

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rachel-mcadamsThe cast of Wim Wenders’ Every Thing Will Be Fine has grown with James Franco being joined by Rachel McAdams, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Robert Naylor, according to THR.

Franco is set to play a grief-stricken man who is responsible for the accidental death of a young boy. He uses his guilt to launch a successful writing career, although as he becomes more and more famous, he ‘represses and rejects the emotional connection he has to the boy’s brother and mother in the years after the accident’.

Rachel McAdams is playing the writer’s girlfriend, who is trying to deal with his crumbling mental state. Charlotte Gainsbourg plays the boy’s mother, with Robert Naylor portraying his brother, who reaches out to the author 10 years after the accident.

Wim Wenders is directing from a screenplay by Bjorn Olaf Johannessen, with shooting already under way in Montreal.

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James Franco Looks Serious In A New As I Lay Dying Poster

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James Franco is a very busy man, managing to star in loads of film, as well as writing, directing and producing plenty more. With As I Lay Dying, based on William Faulkner’s novel, he helmed, wrote the script, produces and stars in the flick.

Now a poster for the movie has emerged, featuring Franco looking pretty serious and reflective.

The film is about a Southern family who grant their late mother’s request to be buried in a nearby town, which raises all sorts of issues. As well as Franco, Danny McBride, Logan Marshall-Green, Richard Jenkins and Tim Blake Mason star.

It should be in cinemas later this year.

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