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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

Jewel’s Catch One (BFI Flare Review) – An inspirational look at an LGBT activist & her nightclub

March 21, 2017 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: Jewel Thais-Williams, Madonna, Sandra Bernhard, Sharon Stone, Thea Austin
Director: C. Fitz
Running Time: 90 mins
Certificate: NR

Although some may not have heard of the Jewel’s Catch One nightclub, for others it’s a legendary venue – the Studio 54 of the West Coast – that for over 40 years welcomed all, but mostly gay men and women, and was a particular refuge for the African-American LGBT population of LA. It also became a hangout for celebrities, and hosted a Madonna album launch.

This documentary looks at the club and more particularly the woman who founded it, Jewel Thais-Williams. Hers is a remarkable story. Despite having little money, she bought the bar that later expanded into the club at a time when women in California weren’t even allowed to be bartenders (unless they owned the bar). She wasn’t just a woman in a man’s world, she was a black woman in a white man’s world, and she was also a lesbian. [Read more…]

Sharon Stone Refuses To Shoot In Mississippi Due To Recently Enacted Anti-LGBTI Law

April 14, 2016 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

sharon-stoneIn the past few weeks Southern US states seem to have been lining up to see who could enact the ugliest anti-LGBT law, under the guise of religious freedom. However, they’ve come up against a lot of opposition, with major companies such as Paypal announcing they were halting their expansion in North Carolina, and Bruce Springsteen and Ringo Starr cancelling concerts there, while Bryan Adams did the same in Mississippi.

Now Sharon Stone has joined the chorus, cancelling her plans to shoot her new short film, The Principle, in Mississippi. The movie was due to film there in June, but will now move elsewhere. As the short is about cyber-bullying, it’s a sensible decision to move it.

Stone, who has long been an LGBTI ally and AIDS activist, commented, ‘I will not work in any state that holds or is actively creating laws to legally support discrimination against American citizens whether due to their race, religion, gender or sexual orientation, nor where those laws are passed or approved by the government of said state.’

The laws that have recently been passed have been framed as ensuring religious freedom, protecting privacy and/or avoiding prejudice, but are really thin-veiled attacks on the LGBT community. They have enshrined in State law that businesses can refuse to allow trans people to use the bathroom that correspond to their gender identity and that it is perfectly legal to refuse service to gay people as long as you claim you have a sincerely held belief/prejudice against them. Many of the laws have also attempted to circumvent any local governments extending protections to LGBT people (although after the backlash, North Carolina’s governor backtracked on that part of his state’s law).

It has been a particularly ugly chapter in the US culture wars, with many believing that more than Republican state governments genuinely feeling the laws are needed, they are merely lining up to show their anti-LGBT credentials in an election year. It also unpleasantly mirrors the things many of the same states did in the 1960s after the Federal government extended more rights to African Americans and other ethnic minorities, where they enacted laws in an attempts to prevents desegregation.

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ACTORS: Sharon Stone  

Fading Gigolo (DVD Review)

September 30, 2014 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: John Turturro, Woody Allen, Sharon Stone, Sofia Vergara, Vanessa Paradis
Director: John Turturro
Running Time: 90 mins
Certificate: 15
Release Date: September 29th 2014 (UK)

Fioravante (John Turturro) is a florist whose life – and career – takes a surprising turn when his friend, Murray (Woody Allen), talks him into becoming a male escort. Murray’s dermatologist (Sharon Stone) has always dreamed on having a threesome and will pay handsomely for first having an individual session and afterwards bringing in her friend (Sofia Vergara).

Then Murray decides to expand the ‘business’, by hiring Fioravante as a ‘healer’ to the widowed Avigal (Vanessa Paradis), whose been living a hidden, buttoned down Orthodox Jewish life, kept in check by the overzealous neighbourhood patrol. To his own surprise, Fioravante start to have feelings for her. [Read more…]

Someone Paid 700,000 Euros To Go Into Space With Leonardo DiCaprio To Raise Funds For AIDS Research

May 24, 2014 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

leonardo-dicaprioIf you’ve ever wanted to go into space with Leonardo DiCaprio, it appear you’ve missed your chance. On Thursday night amFAR (American Foundation For AIDS Research) took over Cannes with an incredibly starry Cinema Against Aids gala. It also included an auction, where the monied classes were asked to reach as deep as they can for some rather unique things.

One of those things was a trip into space with Leo! He was on hand to auction it off, with the top bidder shelling out 700,000 euroes for the opportunity to get on one of the first Virgin Galactic commercial space strips with the Hollywood A-lister, which are due to take off next year.

The trip topped other prestigious lots, including a 1967 Andy Warhol painting of Marilyn Monroe which went for 350,000 euros and a 1968 Picasso 380,000 euros. However everything paled in comparison to a gilded mammoth skeleton by Damien Hirst which sold for 11m euros.

Guests at the event included amfAR chairs Sharon Stone, Harvey Weinstein, Milla Jovovich, Heidi Klum and John Travolta, as well as A-list guests Jane Fonda, Jessica Chastain, Marion Cotillard, Rosario Dawson, Justin Bieber, Michelle Rodriguez, Gael Garcia Bernal, Adrian Grenier, Kellan Lutz and Paris Hilton.

At the gala, Stone said on stage, “Today is the day we can say we have a cure for pediatric AIDS. There were many times we came here over the years where we’re failing. Now we are in the beginning of the end of AIDS.”

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ACTORS: Leonardo DiCaprio, Sharon Stone  

Fading Gigolo Trailer – Woody Allen turns pimp in John Turturro’s film

August 14, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment


John Turturro made one of his very first movie appearances in Woody Allen’s Hannah and Her Sisters. 28 years later they’ve swapped roles, with Turturro behind the camera and Woody making a rare acting appearance in a film he didn’t helm. Perhaps most surprisingly, in Fading Gigolo Allen plays a pimp.

The film also stars Sofia Vergara and Sharon Stone and is about two men (Allen and Turturro) who are growing old and need some cash, so they become gigolos. Allen begins to pimp out Turturro, but things go wrong when the folks in the Hasidic Jewish community where they live begin to suspect what’s going on and Turturro falls for a Jewish widow.

Stone plays a dermatologist who hires Tuturro, while Vergara will play a married woman who wishes to have a threesome with Stone and Turturro. The movie premiere’s at TIFF, and in anticipation of that, the first trailer has been release, which you can watch here.

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ACTORS: John Turturro, Woody Allen, Sofia Vergara, Sharon Stone  DIRECTORS: John Turturro  FILMS: Fading Gigolo  

Sharon Stone Celebrating Mother’s Day

July 4, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Just yesterday we reported that Andie MacDowell and her daughter has joined Susan Sarandon, her daughter, and Christina Ricci in the ensemble drama, Mother’s Day. Now they’ve got company, as Variety reports that Sharon Stone has signed on for the movie as well.

This film is about six mothers who examine the relationships with their daughters over the Mother’s Day weekend. No details are known for Sharon Stone’s character, although presumably she will play one of the moms.

Paul Duddridge is directing from his own original screenplay. It isn’t certain when it will shoot.

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ACTORS: Sharon Stone  DIRECTORS: Paul Dudderidge  FILMS: Mother's Day  

Tom Felton May Feel An Attachment For Director Tony Kaye

March 15, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Since the end of Harry Potter, the smart money for the young actors who are going to have long, successful careers has been on Daniel Radcliffe and Draco Malfoy himself, Tom Felton. Despite having spent most of his youth playing a villain, Felton has a large fanbase and has already seen some success with Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes, as well as having various other roles lined up in the likes of The Apparition and Therese Raquin.

Now it appears he may be getting seduced by Sharon Stone in Tony Kaye’s upcoming thriller, Attachment. The director himself revealed the news while talking to ComingSoon. Stone will play a married teacher who has a one-night stand with a student, who Kaye says will be played by Felton. Her infidelity comes back to haunt her when the young man starts dating the teacher’s daughter, and stalks the whole family. It certainly doesn’t sound like Tom’s escaping his villainous stereotyping!

American History X helmer Kaye hopes to start shooting Attachment in the next couple of months.

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ACTORS: Tom Felton, Sharon Stone  DIRECTORS: Tony Kaye  FILMS: Attachment  

Woody Allen Books An Acting Role In Fading Gigolo

March 7, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Woody Allen is still churning out a movie a year, and as he writes, direct and often stars in those films, he doesn’t have a huge amount of time for anything else. However, he’s now booked a rare acting roles in a film that he isn’t set to direct, with Variety reporting that he’s agreed to star in John Turturro’s Fading Gigolo.

Of course Turturro has starred in several Allen movies, but it’s nevertheless a bit of a coup to get Woody to return the favour. The film will also star Sofia Vergara and Sharon Stone and is about two men who are growing old and need some cash, so they become gigolos to make some cash. Allen begins to pimp out Turturro, but things go wrong when the folks in the Hasidic Jewish community where they live begin to suspect what’s going on and Turturro falls for a Jewish widow.

Stone will play a dermatologist who hires Tuturro, while Vergara will play a married woman who wishes to have a threesome with Stone and Turturro.

It’s Woody’s first acting gig since 2006’s Scoop, and the first movie he’s starred in that he hasn’t directed since 2000’s Picking Up The Pieces.

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ACTORS: John Turturro, Woody Allen, Sofia Vergara, Sharon Stone  DIRECTORS: John Turturro  FILMS: Fading Gigolo  

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