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

Lawless Character Posters – Tom Hardy, Shia Labeouf & more

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A couple of weeks ago we had the trailer for Lawless, which debuts at the Cannes Film Festival ahead of release later this year. And to go alongside the film’s premiere, a set of character posters have been released via Huffpo, showing off Tom Hardy, Shia Labeouf, Jessica Chastain and more’s 1930s gangster style look.

Directed by John Hillcoat from a script by him and Proposition cohort Nick Cave, the movie is based on Matt Bodurant’s book about the author’s grandfather and two great-uncles, who were part of a fierce criminal gang at the centre of the US’s moonshine trade during prohibition. The story also follows a writer named Sherwood Anderson, who is on the trail of the bootlegging gang. The film has a great cast, with Tom Hardy, Shia LaBeouf, Gary Oldman, Guy Pearce, Jessica Chastain, and Mia Wasikowska onboard. It’ll hit UK cinemas on August 31st.

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Cate Blanchett & Mia Wasikowska On For Lesbian Themed Carol

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Cate Blanchett must like novelist Patricia Highsmith, as she’s already starred in an adaptation of the author’s The Talented Mr. Ripley and now she’s taking on another of her books, as she and Mia Wasikowska are set to star in a new take Highsmith’s novel Carol (aka The Price of Salt).

Directed by BAFTA winning John Crowley (Intermission, Boy A), with Lesbian playwright Phyllis Nagy (Mrs Harris) on scripting duties, Carol is a love story about pursuit, betrayal and passion that follows the burgeoning relationship between two very different women in 1950s New York. One, a girl in her 20s working in a department store who dreams of a more fulfilling life, and the other, a wife trapped in a loveless, moneyed marriage desperate to break free but fearful of losing her daughter in the process. When the book was published in 1952 it was one of the first to show lesbian relationships as more than just short-term flings, and something that can engender deep feelings.

The film is currently looking for international sales at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, with filming set to start in February 2013 in London and New York.

Producer Elizabeth Karlsen and Stephen Woolley commented, “We are thrilled to be working with Cate Blanchett and Mia Wasikowska, two of the most talented actors working today, in this striking adaptation of one of the 20th century’s most iconic writers, Patricia Highsmith. To be re-united with highly talented individuals, director John Crowley and writer Phylis Nagy is a testament to the quality of the project. We are delighted to have such a gifted team on board.”

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Mia Wasikowska Takes On Madame Bovary

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Mia Wasikowska has the sort of fresh face and innocence that make her perfect for period roles, whether it’s Alice going down the rabbit hole or the governess Jane Eyre. The actress doesn’t seem too worried about being typecast in corsetted part, as Variety reports that she’s signed up for the title role in director Sophie Barthes’ take on Gustave Flaubert’s Madame Bovary.

The script apparently puts a fresh spin on the tale of a beautiful small-town doctor’s wife, Emma Bovary, who attempts to climb the social ladder by engaging in extra-marital affairs. The project will emphasise the more youthful themes found in the book, which haven’t been fully explored in past adaptation.

Paul Giamatti is also set to appear as Monsieur Homais, a friend of the doctor who threatens to expose Emma’s secrets. The film is set to shoot this autumn.

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Mia Wasikowska Joins Jesse Eisenberg In The Double

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Following the success of Submarine, Richard Ayoade is going slightly bigger scale for his follow up movie, The Double, which is based on a story by Dostoyevsky. Last summer Jesse Esienberg was rumoured to be lined up for the main role, and now THR confirms that and says Mia Wasikowska is set to join the movie as well.

The Double is the tale of a Russian government clerk whose life unravels when what he believes is a doppelganger of himself – who has the same name and history – begins working in his office. It’s been described as ‘Fight Club for bureaucrats’.

Ayoade is promising something funny, frightening and dream-like, a reflection on loneliness and our need to be loved. It’s due to shoot this spring or summer, with Film4 helping to fund the movie.

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Tom Hiddleston Joins Jim Jarmusch’s Vampire Tale Only Lovers Left Alive

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It sounds a bit like an indie film fans wet dream. Ghost Dog and Dead Man helmer Jim Jarmusch teaming up with Tilda Swinton, John Hurt and Mia Wasikowska for a tale about vampires. The cast of Only Lovers Left Alive was also due to include Michael Fassbender, but with Hollywood knocking on his door for every role at the moment, he’s moved on and THR reports Thor and War Horse’s Tom Hiddleston is set to replace him.

Jarmusch won’t get around to shooting the movie until later this year, which is described as a horror drama that tells an unusual love story about two vampires who have been in a tumultuous relationship for centuries.

Hiddleston will next be seen in The Avengers, when hopefully he’ll be able to have more fun as Loki, who is perhaps the most interesting character in Marvel’s current film universe.

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See Brad Pitt, Jessica Chastain & More Take On Cinematic Villains

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Every year around awards season, the New York Times uses its muscle to get a bunch of top actors to dress up and pose for unsual pictures, all related to a different theme. This year’s theme is ‘Touch Of Evil’ and it sees everyone from Brad Pitt to George Clooney taking part, dressed up as some of cinema’s greatest villainous archetypes.

We’ve gathered together some of the images below, but you can get a better look over at the NYTimes site, along with videos of the stars, which sadly aren’t embeddable. It’s incredible how they get all these people to take part, and it makes for some great shots.

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The Kids Are All Right (Blu-ray)

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What a confusing movie The Kids Are All Right is. Kids with two mothers? What craziness! Whoever heard of such as thing! And it has two women living in the same house, both of whom have fathered a child by the same sperm donor! Nuttiness.

At one point, when Julianne Moore was under the bed covers between Annette Bening’s legs, I even thought they were trying to suggest these two mothers were having some sort of sexual relationship, but then I heard a strange buzzing sound coming from down there and realised Moore must have just lost her cell phone or something. [Read more…]