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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

Swiss Army Man (Blu-ray Review) – Things get a little gay between a man & Daniel Radcliffe’s farting corpse

April 9, 2017 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Paul Dano
Director: Daniel Kwan, Daniel Scheinert
Running Time: 97 mins
Certificate: 15
Release Date: April 10th 2017 (UK)

It’s the call every actor dreams about, when someone asks them, ‘Will you play a farting corpse which has a direction-finding erection?’ The lucky man to get that role was Daniel Radcliffe, who stars as a dead guy dubbed Manny. He’s found washed up on a beach by Hank (Paul Dano), a man stranded on an island whose just about to kill himself. However, discovering Manny starts to change Hank’s perspective – not least because it allows Hank to ride the massively flatulent body back to the mainland.

Although Manny is definitely dead, things take an unexpected turn when he starts to talk, and also reveal other powers that help Hank survive in the wilderness. However, Manny has no memory of his previous existence, so Hank begins to teach him about life and love, and in the process begins to think that perhaps there are things worth living for. That includes a woman whose picture is on a phone, as well as in the growing relationship between Hank and Manny, which moves towards being a romance. Oh, and there’s Manny’s erection, which helps point them in the direction they need to go to. [Read more…]

10 Cloverfield Lane (DVD Review)

July 24, 2016 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, John Goodman, John Gallagher Jr.
Director: Dan Trachtenberg
Running Time: 104 mins
Certificate: 12
Release Date: July 25th 2016

Michelle (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) is having a bad time. She’s just left her fiancé and is heading away from their apartment when she gets run off the road by another vehicle. Things get even worse when she wakes up to find she’s now locked in a concrete room with no windows, chained to the wall. She discovers Howard (John Goodman) has brought her into this underground bunker.

He says the world has been attacked, pretty much everyone except him and another survivor in the bunker, Emmett (John Gallagher Jr.), is dead, and the air outside is toxic. He says that she would be dead too if he hadn’t saved her. Michelle is understandably suspicious that Howard’s actually a madman who’s kidnapped her and is lying. As the trio start to live together in the bunker, Michelle begins to wonder whether, even if the outside is toxic, it’s actually a safer place to be than underground with the temperamental and possibly unhinged Howard. [Read more…]

Kill the Messenger Trailer – Jeremy Renner investigates the CIA’s connection to drugs

May 30, 2014 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

A few months ago we got the first pictures from Kill The Messenger, but it’s taken a while for us to get a trailer. It’s a movie that looks like it’ll allow Renner to show off his acting chops, along with plenty of thriller tension.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Two-time Academy Award nominee Jeremy Renner (“The Bourne Legacy”) leads an all-star cast in a dramatic thriller based on the remarkable true story of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gary Webb. Webb stumbles onto a story which leads to the shady origins of the men who started the crack epidemic on the nation’s streets…and further alleges that the CIA was aware of major dealers who were smuggling cocaine into the U.S., and using the profits to arm rebels fighting in Nicaragua. Despite warnings from drug kingpins and CIA operatives to stop his investigation, Webb keeps digging to uncover a conspiracy with explosive implications. His journey takes him from the prisons of California to the villages of Nicaragua to the highest corridors of power in Washington, D.C. – and draws the kind of attention that threatens not just his career, but his family and his life.’

It’ll be interesting to see how the film ends, as the true story doesn’t have a particularly happy ending.

The movie will be out this autumn, when Renner may well be going after his third Oscar nomination. [Read more…]

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ACTORS: Jeremy Renner, Mary Elizabeth Winstead  DIRECTORS: Michael Cuesta  FILMS: Kill The Messenger  

A.C.O.D. Trailer – Adam Scott tries to deal with his parents’ divorce all over again

August 17, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment


There’s a sense that Hollywood thinks it’s only a matter of time until Parks and Recreation star Adam Scott breaks it big in the movies, and with some great notices from festival screenings, perhaps A.C.O.D. is the film to do it.

He plays Carter, a seemingly well-adjusted Adult Child of Divorce (the A.C.O.D. of the title). Having survived the madness of his parents’ divorce, Carter now has a successful career and supportive girlfriend. But when his younger brother gets engaged, Carter is forced to reunite his bitterly divorced parents and their new spouses for the wedding, causing the chaos of his childhood to return, including his wacky therapist.

The great cast also includes Richard Jenkins, Catherine O’Hara, Amy Poehler, Clark Duke, Jessica Alba, Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Jane Lynch. It’ll be out later this year.

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ACTORS: Adam Scott, Richard Jenkins, Catherine O’Hara, Amy Poehler, Clark Duke, jessica Alba, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Jane Lynch  FILMS: A.C.O.D.  

Mary Elizabeth Winstead & Michael Sheen Join Jeremy Renner In Kill the Messenger

July 26, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Mary-Elizabeth-WinsteadA few weeks ago Jeremy Renner got his first co-stars in the thriller Kill The Messenger, Rosemarie Dewitt and Paz Vega. Now the cast has swelled massively with a slew of great names, as Collider reports that Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Michael Sheen, Andy Garcia, Tim Blake Nelson, Robert Patrick, Barry Pepper and Oliver Platt have all signed on for the movie.

The movie is based on the true story of Gary Webb, a San Jose Mercury News reporter who helped expose the CIA’s involvement in a drug smuggling operation with Nicaraguan rebels in the 1980s. In an effort to discredit the writer, the agency launched a smear campaign before the journalist tragically his own life.

There’s no news on exactly who the cast members will play.

Shooting has already begun, with Michael Cuesta directing from a screenplay by Peter Landesman, which is adapted from Gary Webb’s book Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion, as well as Nick Schou’s Kill the Messenger: How the CIA’s Crack-Cocaine Controversy Destroyed Journalist Gary Webb.

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ACTORS: Jeremy Renner, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Michael Sheen, Andy Garcia, Tim Blake Nelson, Robert Patrick, Barry Pepper  FILMS: Kill The Messenger  

Smashed Trailer – Can Mary Elizabeth Winstead & Aaron Paul go sober?

September 12, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment


Mary Elizabeth Winstead & Aaron Paul star in Smashed as a married couple whose bond is built on a mutual love of alcohol gets their relationship put to the test when the wife decides to get sober and he attempts to follow suit. It’s a plot that many will be able to relate to, especially those who’ve found that when they stopped smoking wacky baccy with their partner, they don’t seem as delightful anymore. The movie played Sundance in January, but it’s only now we get the trailer. No UK date is currently set for the film, but it hits US cinemas in October.

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ACTORS: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Aaron Paul  DIRECTORS: James Ponsoldt  FILMS: Smashed  

Mary Elizabeth Winstead & Kyle Chandler Join The Spectacular Now

August 3, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

The cast of The Spectacular Now has certainly grow, with Variety reporting that Kyle Chandler, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Bob Odenkirk, and Andre Royo have joined director James Ponsoldt’s film.

Miles Teller stars as a popular high school senior, who tries to save an intellectual introvert (Shailene Woodley) from a life as an outcast. No character details were given for any of the new cast members. Brie Larson, Kaitlyn Dever, Masam Holden, and Dayo Okeniyi also star.

James Ponsoldt is directing from a screenplay by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber ((500) Days of Summer), which landed on the Black List in 2009. No production schedule was released.

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ACTORS: Miles Teller, Kyle Chandler, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Bob Odenkirk, Andre Royo  DIRECTORS: James Ponsoldt  FILMS: The Spectacular Now  

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (Cinema)

June 21, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: Benjamin Walker, Dominic Cooper, Rufus Sewell, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Anthony Mackie
Director: Timur Bekmambetov
Running Time: 105 mins
Certificate: 15
Release Date: June 20th, 2012

It turns out Abraham Lincoln wasn’t just a lawyer who became the President of the United States and led the winning side in the Civil War – he actually did it all to battle the undead. Well, at least that’s what happens in this version of history.

As a child, Abe watches as a vampire sucks the life from his mother, an event which shapes his entire life, so that once he’s grown (into the form of Benjamin Walker), he wants nothing more than to kill the man responsible. After an attempt to shoot the vamp goes wrong – he’s not using the sort of ammunition that can kill bloodsuckers – he’s saved by Henry Sturgess (Dominic Cooper). Turns out Sturgess makes it his mission to destroy bad vampires, and trains Lincoln up to take on the undead. [Read more…]

The Thing (Cinema)

November 30, 2011 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Ulrich Thomsen, Eric Christian Olsen
Director: Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.
Running Time: 102 mins
Certificate: 15
Release Date: December 2nd, 2011

From the second it was announced a film was in the pipeline that was somehow related to John Carpenter’s 1982 movie, The Thing, there’s been much grumbling from fans. However this is a slightly unusual case, as while Carpenter fans have been predictably wary of anything tampering with a classic they love, the early 80s film was actually a remake itself, of the 1951 movie The Thing From Another World. As a result it’s tougher to argue here that things from the past should be preserved in aspic and never touched.

What we have here though isn’t a straight remake, but (as the movie studio insists on calling it) a ‘prelude’ to the Kurt Russell movie. Quite why they gave it the exact same name as the other film is a bit of a mystery then, but it just goes to show some of the muddle-headed business-butting-up-against-entertainment thinking that went into the new The Thing. [Read more…]

Bill Murray Signs Up For Charlie Swan

October 31, 2011 By Movie Muser Leave a Comment

Roman Coppola may have been busy busy as a second unit director for his father Francis, sister Sofia and friend Wes Anderson, but a decade ago it seemed he was a promising director in his own right. He released CQ in 2001, but we haven’t had anything from him since.

That’s about to change though as he’s currently making A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III, and the cast has just got a whole lot better with the announcement Bill Murray has agreed to take a role in the movie. According to Variety, he’s taking an unknown role in the movie, alongside Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Patricia Arquette.

Charlie Sheen is playing the title role, a ‘a successful graphic designer whose fame, money and charm have made him irresistible to women. When his girlfriend breaks up with him, his life swirls into a downward spiral of doubt, confusion and reflection. Through delirious fantasies involving his many failed romances, he begins the hard road of self-evaluation to come to terms with life without her.’ So nothing reflective of Sheen’s real life there then. Shooting has already begun.

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ACTORS: Bill Murray, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Patricia Arquette  DIRECTORS: Roman Coppola  FILMS: Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III  

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