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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

To The Bone Trailer – Lily Collins & Keanu Reeves star in the anorexia drama from Marti Noxon

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Marti Noxon has an impressive TV resume, including as a producer/writer on Buffy, Angel, and UnReal. Now she’s making her directorial feature debut with To The Bone.

It’s an exceedingly personal project, as it’s based on her own experiences battling anorexia. Lily Collins plays the central role of Ellen, a young woman who ‘is dealing with anorexia. She meets an unconventional doctor who challenges her to face her condition and embrace life.’

Keanu Reeves is the doctor.

Following its Sundance debut, Netflix paid $8 million for the movie, and plans to debut it on the streaming service in July. Take a look at the trailer below. [Read more…]

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Rules Don’t Apply Trailer – Warren Beatty becomes Howard Hughes

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rules-dont-apply-slideMartin Scorsese may have felt he created the ultimate Howard Hughes biopic with The Aviator, but Warren Beatty disagrees, as he’s bringing us Rules Don’t Apply. Beatty directs the movie, and also plays the lead role of the eccentric billionaire.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘An aspiring young actress (Lily Collins) and her ambitious young driver (Alden Ehrenreich) struggle hopefully with the absurd eccentricities of the wildly unpredictable billionaire (Warren Beatty), who they work for.

‘It’s Hollywood, 1958. Small town beauty queen and devout Baptist virgin Marla Mabrey (Collins), under contract to the infamous Howard Hughes (Beatty), arrives in Los Angeles. At the airport, she meets her driver Frank Forbes (Ehrenreich), who is engaged to be married to his 7th grade sweetheart and is a deeply religious Methodist. Their instant attraction not only puts their religious convictions to the test, but also defies Hughes’ #1 rule: no employee is allowed to have any relationship whatsoever with a contract actress. Hughes’ behavior intersects with Marla and Frank in very separate and unexpected ways, and as they are drawn deeper into his bizarre world, their values are challenged and their lives are changed.’

Take a look at the trailer below. [Read more…]

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Love, Rosie (Blu-ray Review)

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It’s interesting to see sometimes how different critic and audience reactions can be. Love, Rosie currently has a very good 7.4/10 rating on IMDB from audience votes, but an abysmal 21% on RottenTomatoes from critics.

When you watch the film you can understand the disparity. If you’re a movie aficionado the whole thing is rather tedious – it’s by-the-numbers  to the point of feeling like it was just spewed out of a machine. The characters we’ve seen 10,000 times before and while the idea of exploring whether people who’ve been friends since childhood can become a successful adult couple has potential, it’s handled in a way that’s doesn’t have a vaguely original idea. All that is anathema to critics but many audience members like it – after all it’s why places like McDonald’s are so successful, you know exactly what you’re going to get and there’s comfort in that, even if gourmands may hate it. [Read more…]

Love, Rosie Trailer – Sam Claflin & Lily Collins negotiate boy-girl friendship

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The first trailer for Love, Rosie has been released, giving us a look at Sam Claflin and Lily Collins in the upcoming romance.

Based on the novel Where Rainbows End from PS, I Love You author Cecelia Ahern, LOVE, ROSIE will star Sam Claflin, Lily Collins, Suki Waterhouse, Tamsin Egerton, Christian Cooke, Jaime Winstone & Art Parkinson and is scheduled to arrive in cinemas 24th October 2014.

LOVE, ROSIE centres on Rosie and her best friend Alex who take a leap of faith, both on life and on each other, when they decide to go to the US together to attend university. But fate has other plans for Rosie. Over the next 12 years their lives change dramatically but the connection remains.

The film is due in UK cinemas this October. [Read more…]

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The English Teacher (DVD)

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Linda Sinclair (Julianne Moore) is the titular English teacher, a 40-something spinster whose life has been so filled with literature that she has been unable to find a man who can fulfil her romantic ideals. She discovers that one of her old students, Jason (Michael Angarano), is back in their small town after returning from studying writing at university. He’s given up on his dreams of being a writer, but after Linda reads his play, The Chrysalis, she decides it must be staged and that her high school is going to do. [Read more…]

Lily Collins Up For The Rom-Com How To Be Single

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lily-collinsLily Collins’ bid for her own young adult franchise with The Mortal Instruments may not have not worked out that well, but that’s not the end of her career as she’s in talks for the romantic comedy How to Be Single, according to Variety.

The movie is based on a book by Liz Tuccillo and is said to be in the same vein as He’s Just Not That Into You and Valentine’s Day. It follows the loves lives and breakups of a group of New Yorkers over the course of a decade.

Christian Ditter is set to direct  from a screenplay by Marc Silverstein and Abby Kohn. Drew Barrymore is producing alongside Nancy Juvonen.

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The Mortal Instruments: City Of Bones (DVD)

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The people behind The Mortal Instruments: City Of Bones must have thought they had a major hit on their hands. While it’s common for sequels to be put into development before the first movie is released (in Hollywood terms, paying a screenwriter for a first draft of a script is comparatively cheap), but in this case they’d already started casting the likes of Sigourney Weaver in City Of Ashes. However when City Of Bones only grossed $90 million around the world, the likelihood of adaptations of Cassandra Clare’s other books seemed far less likely. [Read more…]

Stuck In Love (DVD)

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Greg Kinnear is writer William Borgens, who split up with his wife (Jennifer Connelly) a couple of years ago, but hasn’t let go, including hanging around her house and spying through the windows despite the fact she has a new man. He lives with his two kids, Samantha (Lily Collins), who has never forgiven her mother for leaving and has decided she doesn’t want a relationship and would prefer fleeting encounters, and the younger Rusty (Nat Woolf). [Read more…]

Sigourney Weaver Up For Mortal Instruments Sequel City of Ashes

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Sigourney-WeaverWith many young adult novel adaptations failing at the box office, you’d have thought the backers of The Mortal Instruments: City Of Bones might be hedging their bets on whether a second instalment will ever be made. However they must be pretty confident as they’re already casting City Of Ashes.

THR reports that Sigourney Weaver is in negotiations to star in the film.

The movies are based on Cassandra Clare’s novels, which follow a young woman named Clary Fray (Lily Collins) who learns that she comes from a long line of Shadowhunters, a group that tracks down and kills demons, vampires, faeries, and other mystical creatures.

Sigourney Weaver is in talks to portray the leader of these Shadowhunters, who is on a personal mission to find the man who killed her son. Lily Collins, Jamie Campbell Bower and Aidan Turner are all expected to reprise their roles in the sequel, along with most of the rest of the cast.

However all these sequel plans do rely on City Of Bones being a success when it’s released towards the end of August.

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The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones Trailer – More teen fantasy tries to tempt us

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There’s a lot of money in the teen fantasy genre, but also big losses if you can catch the attention of that fickle market. One of those hoping to lure in the Twilight and Hunger Games crowds is The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, which reaches cinemas in August. Now a new trailer has arrived to tempt us.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Clary Fray (Lily Collins) thought she was an ordinary teenager living in Brooklyn until one night in a downtown nightclub she encounters the mysterious, charismatic Jace.  Upon witnessing Jace hunt down and kill a demon in the crowded club, Clary begins to wonder if she is that ordinary after all. Especially as she appears to be the only one who can see him…

‘Jace Wayland (Jamie Campbell Bower) is a Shadowhunter. Part of a secret cadre of half-angel warriors, he is tasked with protecting humanity in an ancient battle against demonic forces. This battle has been fought secretly in our midst for centuries, but the stakes have just been raised.

‘When Clary’s mother is viciously attacked and taken from their home, she discovers her connections to Jace run deeper than she could ever have imagined and beneath surface of the city exists another world…one she unknowingly belongs to. As both Clary and best friend Simon (Robert Sheehan) are drawn into this dark and dangerous world, Clary realises Jace is both the key to uncovering her past and protecting her future.

‘Based on Cassandra Clare’s bestselling novel, The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones is directed by Harold Zwart and also stars Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Lena Headey.’

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