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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

Logan Lucky (Blu-ray Review) – Steven Soderbergh takes Channing Tatum on a blue collar heist

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Director Steven Soderbergh hasn’t done very well at retiring. After a career that’s ranged from Sex Lies & Videotape, Erin Brockovich and Traffic to the Ocean’s 11 trilogy, Out Of Sight and Magic Mike, he announced that his last feature film as a director would be 2013’s Liberace biopic, Behind The Candelabra. However, just four years later he’s back with Logan Lucky.

What appears to have brought him back wasn’t just the story and script, but that they managed to find a way to essentially cut out the usual mainstream film machine by pre-selling foreign distribution and TV/streaming rights and then releasing the movie in the US himself. [Read more…]

Katie Holmes Turning Director For Single Mother Tale All We Had

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katie-holmesWhile Katie Holmes didn’t manage to follow in Nicole Kidman’s footsteps and see her career take off massively after she divorced Tom Cruise, she’s still around and now she’s trying something new, as it’s been revealed she’s set to direct her first movie, All We Had, according to Variety.

The movie is based on Annie Weatherwax’s recently published book about a single mother and her 13-year-old daughter. They’re a family unit on the edge with no money and uncertainty over how they’re going to survive, but then they find an unlikely home in a quirky small town.

Fault In Our Stars director Josh Boone has signed up to write the script

Holmes comments, “I am very excited and honored to be collaborating with Jane [Rosenthal, producer] and Josh on this project and look forward to bringing Annie’s incredible characters to the screen.”

It’s not clear whether Holmes will also star, or when the movie will shoot.

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The Giver Trailer – Jeff Bridges guides Brenton Thwaites in a dystopian future

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Jeff Bridges has been trying to get an adaptation of The Giver off the ground for over around two decades, but it’s only now, with the popularity of other young adult movies, that it’s finally happened.

We can take our first proper look at the movie at The Weinstein Company has released the first trailer.

The Giver ‘centers on Jonas (Brenton Thwaites), who lives in a seemingly ideal, if colorless, world of conformity and contentment. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver of Memory does he begin to understand the dark, complex secrets behind his fragile community. The film is based on Lois Lowry’s beloved young adult novel of the same name, which was the winner the 1994 Newbury Medal and has sold over 10 million copies worldwide.

Jonas’ new position sees him cut off from everyone he knows and he is mentored by the former Receiver of Memories, known as The Giver (Bridges). The great cast also includes Meryl Streep, Alexander Skarsgard, Katie Holmes and Taylor Swift. It’s due out in August.

And it certainly seems to be Brenton Thwaites day, as we only just posted the trailer for his film, The Signal. [Read more…]

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Taylor Swift & Katie Holmes Up For The Giver, Alongside Jeff Bridges & Meryl Streep

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KATIE-HOLMESAfter years of trying to get it off the grounds, Jeff Bridges is finally moving an adaptation of The Giver towards the screen. The likes of Meryl Streep, Alexander Skarsgard, Cameron Monaghan, Odeya Rush and Brenton Thwaites have already signed up to star alongside Bridges, and now Katie Holmes and Taylor Swift may join them.

Phillip Noyce is set to direct the sci-fi drama, which is based on a novel by author Lois Lowry. The story is set in the future where the entire range of human emotion has been forgotten. In the society, the Receiver of Memorieshas been given the right to remember the past in case it is deemed necessary to make use of it. A young boy named Jonas (Brenton Thwaites) has been given the right to become the next Receiver of Memories and his life is thrown into question when he begins his training with an elderly Receiver.

Meryl Streep will be playing the Chief Elder in the movie, an antagonist and authoritarian charged with keeping order in [the] society. Jeff Bridges meanwhile will be the title character, who delivers the memories that uproot a rebellion in the young man. Monaghan will portray Asher, Jonas’ best friend.

Katir Holmes will be Jonas’ mother, with Skarsgard as his father. Swift has signed on for the part of Rosemary, who has previous been mentored by Bridges character.

Shooting start next month in South Africa, with an August 15th, 2014 release already set.

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Katie Holmes & Allison Janney Take Flight With The Seagull

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Actorly and literary types love Anton Chekhov, but he’s not exactly a writer who’s permeated the mainstream. However Hurt Locker actor Christian Camargo is hoping to change that, as he’s planning to write and direct a modern day take on Chekhov’s classic, The Seagull.

Now he’s got a to flight cast to help him, as Variety reports that Allison Janney, William Hurt, Jean Reno, Katie Holmes, Mark Rylance and Juliet Rylance have signed up to star. The Seagull is well known for its large cast of characters, telling interconnected tales of romantic and artistic conflict, mainly concentrating on ingenue Nina, fading actress Irina Arkadina, her son the symbolist playwright Konstantin Tréplev, and the famous middlebrow writer Trigorin.

However rather than being set in 19th Century Russia, this new version will take place in modern day rural New England on a Memorial Day weekend. Allsion Janney is set to play Elizabeth, a film star based on the Arkadina , with Hurt as her brother and Katie Holmes as the emotional daughter of the estate’s caretaker. Shooting will take place this summer in New York.

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Don’t Be Afraid Of The Dark (DVD)

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Don’t Be Afraid Of The Dark is a bit of a passion project for producer Guillermo Del Toro. The 1973 TV movie it’s based on made a huge impression on the Pan’s Labyrinth filmmaker as a child and he remembers it as one of the scariest things of his childhood. However what fuels childhood nightmares doesn’t necessarily translate to a remake for an adult audience, especially when you add in fairy tale lore that makes things seem sillier than they need to be.

While in the original it’s a grown women who has problems when she moves into a new house, in the new version it’s a little girl called Sally (Bailee Madison), who comes to live with her father (Guy Pearce) and his girlfriend (Katie Holmes) in a massive old house they’re renovating. Sally feels rather unwanted and initially takes a disliking to her dad’s girlfriend, Kim, however that takes a backseat when she starts to hear whispering coming through the heating ducts and then strange little creatures escape from a boarded up basement. [Read more…]