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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

Only The Brave (Blu-ray Review) – Hotshot firefighters risk it all

March 11, 2018 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: Josh Brolin, Miles Teller, Taylor Kitsch, Jeff Bridges, Jennifer Connelly
Director: Joseph Kosinski
Running Time: 134 mins
Certificate: 12
Release Date: March 12th 2017 (UK)

Eric Marsh (Josh Brolin) of the Prescott, Arizona Fire Department is an expert at fighting forest fires, but he and his team have to take a backseat when ‘hotshot’ Type 1 front line firefighters, even if they don’t know as much as he does. He plans to become the head of the first municipal firefighting team to achieve Type 1 status.

Marsh’s Granite Mountain Hotshots are amongst the best there is. However, they also have their own issues to deal with, such as Eric’s dedication to fighting fires interfering with his marriage to Amanda (Jennifer Connelly). There’s also Brendan McDonough (Miles Teller), a young wastrel who uses drugs, sleeps around and has been in trouble with the law – but with an accidental child on the way, he decides it’s time to shape up and join the team. [Read more…]

New Only The Brave Trailer – Josh Brolin, Miles Teller, & Taylor Kitsch fight fires in a true-life tale

September 16, 2017 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

A film about the Granite Mountain Hotshots firefighter crew from Prescott, Arizona has been in the works for a while. Now it’s on its way, under the new title, Only The Brave, which has just released its first trailer.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘All men are created equal… then, a few become firefighters. Only the Brave, based on the True Story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, is the heroic story of one unit of local firefighters that through hope, determination, sacrifice, and the drive to protect families, communities, and our country become one of the most elite firefighting teams in the country. As most of us run from danger, they run toward it – they watch over our lives, our homes, everything we hold dear, as they forge a unique brotherhood that comes into focus with one fateful fire.’

Josh Brolin, Miles Teller, Jeff Bridges, James Badge Dale, Taylor Kitsch and Jennifer Connelly star, with Tron: Legacy’s Joseph Kosinski directing. Take a look at the trailer below. Only The Brave is due out later thie year. [Read more…]

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ACTORS: Josh Brolin, Miles Teller, Jeff Bridges, James Badge Dale, Taylor Kitsch, Jennifer Connelly  DIRECTORS: Joseph Kosinski  

Only The Brave Trailer – Josh Brolin, Miles Teller, Jeff Bridges & Taylor Kitsch star in a firefighting tale

July 19, 2017 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

A film about the Granite Mountain Hotshots firefighter crew from Prescott, Arizona has been in the works for a while. Now it’s on its way, under the new title, Only The Brave, which has just released its first trailer.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘All men are created equal… then, a few become firefighters. Only the Brave, based on the True Story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, is the heroic story of one unit of local firefighters that through hope, determination, sacrifice, and the drive to protect families, communities, and our country become one of the most elite firefighting teams in the country. As most of us run from danger, they run toward it – they watch over our lives, our homes, everything we hold dear, as they forge a unique brotherhood that comes into focus with one fateful fire.’

Josh Brolin, Miles Teller, Jeff Bridges, James Badge Dale, Taylor Kitsch and Jennifer Connelly star, with Tron: Legacy’s Joseph Kosinski directing. Take a look at the trailer below. Only The Brave is due out later thie year. [Read more…]

CHECK OUT THESE RELATED ARCHIVES:
ACTORS: Josh Brolin, Miles Teller, Jeff Bridges, James Badge Dale, Taylor Kitsch, Jennifer Connelly  DIRECTORS: Joseph Kosinski  

American Pastoral Trailer – Ewan McGregor makes his directorial debut with a Philip Roth adaptation

June 24, 2016 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

american-pastoral-trailer-slideIf you’re going to make your directorial debut, there are easier project than an adaptation of an acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, by a man considered one of the great American living men of letters (especially if you’re British). However, that’s what Ewan McGregor has done with American Pastoral, based on Philip Roth’s novel, which he may have taken on partly due to the fact it was stuck in development hell due to a never-ending parade of directors coming and going.

Now a trailer has arrived to give us our first look at the movie.

Here’s the official synopsis: ‘Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning Phillip Roth novel, AMERICAN PASTORAL follows a family whose seemingly idyllic existence is shattered by the social and political turmoil of the 1960s. Ewan McGregor (Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, Beginners) makes his directorial debut and stars as Seymour “Swede” Levov, a once legendary high school athlete who is now a successful businessman married to Dawn, a former beauty queen. But turmoil brews beneath the polished veneer of Swede’s life.

‘When his beloved teenage daughter, Merry, disappears after being accused of committing a violent act, Swede dedicates himself to finding her and reuniting his family. What he discovers shakes him to the core, forcing him to look beneath the surface and confront the chaos that is shaping the world around him. AMERICAN PASTORAL also stars Academy Award® winner Jennifer Connelly (A Beautiful Mind) as Dawn, Dakota Fanning (The Runaways, The Twilight Saga) as Merry, Emmy® winner Uzo Aduba (Orange Is the New Black), and Academy Award® nominee David Strathairn (Lincoln, Good Night, and Good Luck).’ [Read more…]

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ACTORS: Ewan McGregor, Jennifer Connelly  DIRECTORS: Ewan McGregor  

Ewan McGregor Will Make His Directing Debut With American Pastoral

February 18, 2015 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

ewan-mcgregorEver since Philip Roth’s brilliant American Pastoral won the Pulitzer Prize, there’s been talk of making it into a movie. Everyone from Fisher Stevens to Philip Noyce have been attached to direct at one time or another, but all have dropped out before is went before the camera.

Last year Ewan McGregor, Dakota Fanning and Jennifer Connelly came onboard to star, and now it turns out Ewan won’t just be in front of the camera, he’ll be directing too. It’s certainly a brave more to make for his debut helming debut, as it’s an acclaimed and complex book he’s working from.

Ewan comments in Variety, “It’s a great privilege to be working with Lakeshore on Phillip Roth’s astounding novel American Pastoral. I’ve wanted to direct for years and wanted to wait until I found a story that I ‘had’ to tell and in this script I knew I had found that story.”

American Pastoral is about Swede Levov (McGregor), a legendary high school athlete who grows up to marry a former beauty queen and inherits his father’s business. However his seemingly perfect life is shattered when his daughter (Fanning) rebels by becoming a revolutionary and committing a savage act of political terrorism during the Vietnam War.

The movie will shoot in September in Pittsburgh

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ACTORS: Ewan McGregor, Jennifer Connelly, Dakota Fanning  DIRECTORS: Ewan McGregor  FILMS: American Pastoral  

Jennifer Connelly Joins Ewan McGregor In American Pastoral

August 4, 2014 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

jennifer-connelly-slideThe decades-long journey to get Philip Roth’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel American Pastoral onto the big screen finally looks like it might be coming to fruition, with Philip Noyce in place to direct and Ewan McGregor recently signing on to star.

Now he has a co-star, as Jennifer Connelly has joined the movie.

Connelly will play Dawn, the wife of McGregor’s Swede Levov. Swede is a legendary high school athlete who grows up to marry a former beauty queen and inherits his father’s business. However his seemingly perfect life is shatteeds when his daughter rebels by becoming a revolutionary and committing a savage act of political terrorism during the Vietnam War.

We’ve still got a while to wait for the movie though, as is won’t start shooting until March 2015.

CHECK OUT THESE RELATED ARCHIVES:
ACTORS: Jennifer Connelly, Ewan McGregor  DIRECTORS: Phillip Noyce  FILMS: American Pastoral  

Noah (Blu-ray Review)

July 29, 2014 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Logan Lerman, Douglas Booth, Emma Watson
Director: Darren Aronofsky
Running Time: 138 mins
Certificate: 12
Release Date: July 28th 2014 (UK)

For years Darren Aronofsky tried to get his epic version of Noah off the ground, but it never seemed likely to really happen. His only previous foray into big budget filmmaking, The Fountain, turned into a bit of a disaster, with only part of the movie actually made (due to studio intervention) and what was left being confusing and making little money at the box office.

However after the success of Black Swan and with biblical epics looking like they might be coming back into fashion, Paramount decided to take a punt on the movie. However this is Darren Aronofsky, the man behind the likes of Requiem For A Dream and Pi, so it was always clear this wasn’t going to be your typical $125 million studio movie. That said, it appears even Paramount was surprised by how strange and intense it turned out. After viewing Darren’s preferred version they made their own, more traditional cut, but it turned out audiences liked Aronofsky’s take better and so that’s what we have. [Read more…]

Russell Crowe, Logan Lerman & More Get Noah Character Posters

February 12, 2014 By Tim Isaac 1 Comment

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It hasn’t been a smooth road to the big screen for Darren Arnofsky’s Noah. It took him years to get backing for the movie and it seems even after the gave it the greenlight, Paramount has still been a little nervous, particularly trying to ensure Christians – who could be a massive audience for the movie – would like this idiosyncratic take on the bible story.

Now four character posters for the film have been released – featuring Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Logan Leman and Ray Winston – and Aronofsky has been talking to THR about the difficult he had with test screenings.

Paramount showed various versions to all sorts of Christian groups, who made some suggestions for changes. The director was against holding these tests in the first place and says, “I was upset — of course. No one’s ever done that to me. There was a rough patch. I imagine if I made comedies and horror films, it would be helpful. In dramas, it’s very, very hard to do. I’ve never been open to it.”

However the studio eventually went with Darren Aronofsky’s own version. He comments, “I’m a great closer. I’ve never reshot a frame, and I think that’s very odd on big-budget movies. We’re meticulous. We come from independent film, with limited resources. They tried what they wanted to try, and eventually they came back. My version of the film hasn’t been tested… It’s what we wrote and what was greenlighted.”

As for whether it’s true to the Bible of he, he comments, “I had no problem completely honoring and respecting everything in the Bible and accepting it as truth. Of course, my production designer [Mark Friedberg] had a million ideas of what it could look like, but I said, ‘No, the measurements are right there.’ We wanted to smash expectations of who Noah is. The first thing I told Russell is, ‘I will never shoot you on a houseboat with two giraffes behind you.’ … You’re going to see Russell Crowe as a superhero, a guy who has this incredibly difficult challenge put in front of him and has to overcome it.”

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ACTORS: Russell Crowe, Logan Lerman, Jennifer Connelly, Ray Winstone  DIRECTORS: Darren Aronofsky  FILMS: Noah  

Russell Crowe Gets The Floating Head Treatment In A New Noah Poster

February 7, 2014 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

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It’s not too long until Noah hits cinemas, and to help keep interest in Darren Aronofsky’s biblical epic, a new international poster for the movie has been released.

The film follows Noah (Russell Crowe), who lives on a vast plain of volcanic ash in the lee of a volcanic glacier (the movie was largely shot in Iceland) and has to trek up a mountain every day to get to work. He is told by God to build an enormous vessel to house both his family and the animals of the world to preserve them from a flood that promises to wipe out a sin-filled world.

It’s currently due for release on March 28th, 2014.

CHECK OUT THESE RELATED ARCHIVES:
ACTORS: Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly  DIRECTORS: Darren Aronofsky  FILMS: Noah  

A New York Winter’s Tale Trailer – Colin Farrell & Russell Crowe blend fantasy & reality

February 1, 2014 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment


While in the US this film will reach cinemas simply a Winter’s Tale on February 14th, for some reason in the UK it’s be A New York Winter’s Tale when it arrives here on February 21st.

Now a lengthy new trailer has arrived for the movie, which stars Colin Farrell, Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly and Downton Abbey‘s Jessica Brown Findlay.

Here’s the rather cryptic synopsis: ‘Set in a mythic New York City and spanning more than a century, “Winter’s Tale” is a story of miracles, crossed destinies, and the age-old battle between good and evil. The film stars Colin Farrell (“Total Recall”), Jessica Brown Findlay (TV’s “Downton Abbey”), and Oscar® winners Jennifer Connelly (“A Beautiful Mind”), William Hurt (“Kiss of the Spider Woman”), Eva Marie Saint (“On the Waterfront”) and Russell Crowe (“Gladiator”). “Winter’s Tale” also introduces young newcomers Ripley Sobo and Mckayla Twiggs (both from Broadway’s “Once”). The film marks the directorial debut of Academy Award-winning screenwriter Akiva Goldsman (“A Beautiful Mind”), who also wrote the screenplay, based on the acclaimed novel by Mark Helprin.’ [Read more…]

CHECK OUT THESE RELATED ARCHIVES:
ACTORS: Colin Farrell, Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly  DIRECTORS: Akiva Goldsman  FILMS: Winter's Tale  
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