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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

Matt Damon Returning To The Heist Franchise For Ocean’s Eight

November 15, 2016 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

matt-damon-oceans-thirteenThey’ve pulled together a great cast for Ocean’s Eight, which will reboot the Ocean’s Eleven franchise with a largely female cast. However, ET reveals that at least one member of the earlier cast will be showing up, with Matt Damon confirming he’s set to shoot a cameo.

He says,  “I’m doing a little bit in the movie. I haven’t read it yet, but the cast is phenomenal and I’m excited to see what those women do with it. It’s going to be fun.”

Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway, Rihanna, Helena Bonham Carter, Mindy Kaling, Sarah Paulson and Awkwafina will be the titular eight, who stage a complex heist centred on the annual New York Met Gala Ball. It’s also been reported that Bullock’s character is a relative of George Clooney’s Danny Ocean, but it’s not known if Clooney himself will be involved at all.

Hunger Games helmer Gary Ross should start shooting the movie either later this year or early next year in New York. Steven Soderbergh, who directed the Ocean’s 11 trilogy, will produce.

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ACTORS: Sarah Paulson, Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway, Rihanna, Helena Bonham Carter, Mindy Kaling, Awkwafina, Matt Damon  DIRECTORS: Gary Ross  FILMS: Ocean's Ocho  

Sarah Paulson In Talks For Ocean’s Eleven Spin-off

August 27, 2016 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

sarah-paulsonJust as they pulled together a great cast for Ocean’s 11, they’re doing the same for the female-led spin-off, Ocean’s Ocho. Now it’s just gotten even better, with Variety reporting that out actressSarah Paulson is in talks to join the film.

Assuming she signs on the dottted line, she wil join Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway, Rihanna, Helena Bonham Carter, Mindy Kaling and Awkwafina in the heist film.

Rumours suggest Bullock’s character may be Danny Ocean’s sister, but no plot details have been released. Hunger Games helmer Gary Ross should start shooting the movie either later this year or early next year, with filming believed to be taking place in New York. Steven Soderbergh, who directed the Ocean’s 11 trilogy, will produce.

CHECK OUT THESE RELATED ARCHIVES:
ACTORS: Sarah Paulson, Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway, Rihanna, Helena Bonham Carter, Mindy Kaling, Awkwafina  DIRECTORS: Gary Ross  FILMS: Ocean's Ocho  

Sarah Paulson Reveals She Had Career Nerves After Kissing Her Girlfriend At The Tonys

May 8, 2016 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

sarah-paulsonWe may have come a long way in terms of LGBT acceptance in the West, but there’s no doubt there are still major issues, not least of which are sometimes legitimate fears over whether being open about your sexuality will affect your career. And when you’re an actor just starting to find media success, it’s not too surprising you’d worry whether it would make a difference.

American Horror Story’s Sarah Paulson has admitted she was a little nervous after kissing her then girlfriend, Cherry Jones, at the 2005 Tony Awards, after Jones won the Best Actress in a Play award for playing Sister Aloysius in Doubt. At the time, Paulson had just booked her first high profile TV role, in Studio 60 On Sunset Strip, and wondered whether the spontaneous smooch would have repercussions for that.

She tells NOTOFU (via GSN), “I was just doing what one would do when a person they love has just won a big award. What am I gonna do, pat her on the back and say, ‘Good job, dude?’ It didn’t occur to me to do anything but what I did.”

However, she says it did give her concerns, which weren’t allayed until she got to the Studio 60 sets and the show’s creator, Aaron Sorking, assured her that she would, ‘never have anything to worry about.’

Paulson says, “It was the biggest exhale of my life. I didn’t realize how anxious about it I had been until he said that.”

She’s also keen to say people shouldn’t have to feel the way she did, adding, “I believe that everyone should be allowed to speak their truth and just say what they want to say and show the world who they are. You should be able to love whomever you fucking well please.

Bisexual Paulson, split with Jones not too long after the Tonys and is currently a relationship with Emmy Award-winning actress Holland Taylor (Two and a Half Men). While Studio 60 flopped (despite being a great show), Paulson has since found great success in American Horror Story and film roles in the likes of 12 Years A Slave and Carol. She recently earned rave reviews as Marcia Clarke in The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story.

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ACTORS: Sarah Paulson  

Carol (Blu-ray Review)

March 20, 2016 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Kyle Chandler, Sarah Paulson
Director: Todd Haynes
Running Time: 118 mins
Certificate: 15
Release Date: March 21st 2016 (UK)

Todd Haynes 2002 movies Far From Heaven was a very deliberate homage to the ‘women’s films’ of the 1950s made by the likes of Douglas Sirk. As with his HBO mini-series Mildred Pierce, Carol is set in decades past, but eschews the high gloss of Far From Heaven, instead being more interested in looking at how society was through the eyes of society today, but done in a style as if you really were there.

The film follows Carol Aird (Cate Blanchett), whose marriage is in the process of imploding when she meets charming shop assistant Therese (Rooney Mara) in a Department Store. They both sense a connection which slowly builds as they meet for lunch and then Carol invites Therese to spend the day with her in her country house. [Read more…]

Carol (Cinema Review)

November 24, 2015 By Mike Martin Leave a Comment

Starring: Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Sarah Paulson, Kyle Chandler
Director: Todd Haynes
Running Time: 118 mins
Certificate: 15
Release Date: November 27th 2015 (UK)

If Far From Heaven was Todd Haynes’ love letter to director Douglas Sirk, this is his tribute to painter Edward Hopper. Whatever the flaws of his film – more of which later – it is probably the best-looking movie of 2015. Meticulously reimagining the New York of the 1950s it has shot after shot of its protagonists exquisitely framed, gorgeously coloured and superbly dressed.

Several moments are worth pausing and gazing at for hours, especially one amazing shot of a grey, drab New York street lifted by the bright red coat and hat of the ethereal Cate Blanchett striding along. The interiors are gloomy, the exteriors washed out and tired-looking. Hopper would be impressed.

It received a standing ovation at Cannes and has been held back to coincide with Oscars season, during which it will probably clean up. However… [Read more…]

Sarah Paulson Joins Todd Haynes’ Lesbian-Themed Carol

January 24, 2014 By Tim Isaac 1 Comment

Sarah-PaulsonTodd Haynes Carol has been slowly coming together, and now another piece has slotted into place, as Variety reports that Sarah Paulson has signed up to star alongside Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara in the lesbian-themed movie.

Paulson is a great addition. She’s shown how good she is in the likes of Studio 60 and Martha Marcy May Marlene, but it’s only with American Horror Story that’s she’s really started get the attention she deserves. She’s also, in case you didn’t know, bisexual, having exclusively dated men until she got together with actress Cherry Jones. Sadly they broke up and since then Paulson has said she’s open to relationships with both men and women.

Carol is an adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s 1952 novella The Price of Salt, which follows the relationship between two women in 1950s New York. One is a young department store clerk (Mara) who dreams of a better life, and the other is a woman (Blanchett) trapped in a loveless marriage. Playwright Phyllis Nagy wrote the screenplay adaptation. Paulson will play Blanchett’s ex-lover and current confidante.

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ACTORS: Sarah Paulson, Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara  DIRECTORS: Todd Haynes  FILMS: Carol  

American Horror Story: Asylum (DVD)

October 21, 2013 By Tim Isaac 1 Comment

Starring: Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters, Zachary Quinto, Jessica Lange, Lily Rabe
Director: Various
Running Time: 531 mins
Certificate: 18
Release Date: October 21st 2013

Rather than having a continuing story, American Horror Story has decided to go the more interesting route of telling a completely different tale each season, although with many of the same actors (but playing new character). So while the first season was set in a haunted house in LA, Asylum takes us to the Briarcliff asylum.

We start out in the present day, when a man (Maroon 5’s Adam Levine) and his girlfriend are poking around the ruins of Briarcliff when they are confronted by an incarnation of the psychotic serial killer, Bloodyface. We then flash back to the 1960s, when Briarcliff in still in operation, presided over by the terrifying nun, Sister Jude (Jessica Lange). [Read more…]

Paul Giamatti & Sarah Paulson Join 12 Years a Slave

June 6, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

The cast of Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave has grown substantially, with Paul Giamatti, Sarah Paulson, Scoot McNairy, Ruth Negga, and Garret Dillahunt all signing on to star in the period drama, according to Variety.

The movie is based on the true story of Solomon Northrup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a New York free black man who was kidnapped in Washington D.C. in 1841, and sold to a Louisiana plantation. He was a slave for 12 years before being rescued. Paul Giamatti is playing Freeman, who takes possession of the slaves after they arrive in New Orleans. Sarah Paulson the jealous wife of Michael Fassbender’s character. It isn’t clear who Scoot McNairy, Ruth Negga, and Garret Dillahunt will play. Brad Pitt and Benedict Cumberbatch also star.

Steve McQueen is directing from a screenplay he co-wrote with John Ridley, which is adapted from Northrup’s 1853 non-fiction book.

CHECK OUT THESE RELATED ARCHIVES:
ACTORS: Paul Giamatti, Sarah Paulson, Scoot McNairy, Ruth Negga, Garret Dillahunt, Brad Pitt  DIRECTORS: Steve McQueen  FILMS: 12 Years A Slave  
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