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

Hot Pursuit (Blu-ray Review)

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Hot Pursuit must have seemed like a slam dunk. Get two popular actresses who’ve had comedy success, give them a script that’s a little similar to The Heat and bring in a director who had a big hit with The Proposal. However, the resulting movie flopped at the cinemas and has an abysmally low rating of 7% on Rotten Tomatoes.

To be fair to it though, it’s not as dreadful as that might suggest. You can almost feel the critics reacting to the fact it all very forced – a movie that from the ground up feels cynically contrived to pander to the audience and as a result ends up lacking real heart. However, everyone involved is obviously extremely keen to please, rather like an overly keen party host, where you can appreciate the effort even if you wish they wouldn’t try so hard. [Read more…]

New Hot Pursuit Trailer – Reese Witherspoon has to protect Sofia Vergara

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Hot-Pursuit-QuadSofia Vergara and Reese Witherspoon are going to be hoping that they can repeat the success of The Heat this summer with their comedy Hot Pursuit. Now we can get a feel for whether they might be onto a success as a new trailer has been released.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘From Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures and New Line Cinema comes the comedy “Hot Pursuit,” starring Academy Award winner Reese Witherspoon (“Walk the Line,” “Wild”) and Sofia Vergara (“Chef,” TV’s “Modern Family”), under the direction of Anne Fletcher (“The Proposal”).

‘In “Hot Pursuit,” an uptight and by-the-book cop (Witherspoon) tries to protect the sexy and outgoing widow (Vergara) of a drug boss as they race through Texas, pursued by crooked cops and murderous gunmen.

Fletcher directs from a screenplay written by David Feeney (TV’s “New Girl”) & John Quaintance (TV’s “Ben & Kate”) and Dana Fox (“What Happens in Vegas”) & Katherine Silberman (TV’s “Ben & Kate”). John Carroll Lynch (“Crazy, Stupid, Love.”) and Rob Kazinsky (“Pacific Rim”) also star.’

The movie is due out July 31st. [Read more…]

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Hot Pursuit Trailer – Reese Witherspoon tries to protect Sofia Vergara

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hot-pursuit-slide1The trailer for Hot Pursuit has arrived. The movie stars Academy Award winner Reese Witherspoon, alongside Modern Family’s Sofia Vergara with Anne Fletcher (The Proposal) directing.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘In Hot Pursuit, an uptight and by-the-book cop (Witherspoon) tries to protect the sexy and outgoing widow (Vergara) of a drug boss as they race through Texas, pursued by crooked cops and murderous gunmen.

‘Fletcher directs from a screenplay written by David Feeney (TV’s New Girl) & John Quaintance (TV’s Ben & Kate) and Dana Fox (What Happens in Vegas) & Katherine Silberman (TV’s Ben & Kate). John Carroll Lynch (Crazy, Stupid, Love.) and Rob Kazinsky (Pacific Rim) also star.’

The movie is due out in the UK in May. [Read more…]

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Wild Card Trailer – Jason Statham is in trouble with the mob

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wild-card-jason-stathamIn Wild Card Jason Statham spends 90 minutes writing poetry, playing with puppies and pondering the meaning of Sartre’s existentialist philosophy. Ok, no he does, he does what we’d expect and gets involved in some serious action.

The movie is a remake of the 1986 Burt Reynolds film Heat (no, not the Michael Mann one) and also stars Michael Angarano, Sofia Vergara, Jason Alexander, Hope Davis, and Stanley Tucci. Oddly though, while it is a remake, in some respects it’s actually the original, as it uses William Goldman’s initial screenplay, before it was tinkered with and in his opinions made worse for the 1986 version.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Nick Wild (Jason Statham) is a Las Vegas bodyguard with lethal professional skills and a personal gambling problem. When a friend is beaten by a sadistic thug, Nick strikes back, only to find out the thug is the son of a powerful mob boss. Suddenly Nick is plunged into the criminal underworld, chased by enforcers and wanted by the mob. Having raised the stakes, Nick has one last play to change his fortunes… and this time, it’s all or nothing. From two-time Academy®Award-winning writer William Goldman (Best Original Screenplay, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, 1969; Best Adapted Screenplay, All the President’s Men, 1976).’

The film’s in US cinemas at the end of January, but no UK date is currently set. [Read more…]

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Fading Gigolo (DVD Review)

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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…]

Chef Trailer – Jon Favreau serves up something a little more small-scale

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Jon Favreau has been making big Hollywood blockbusters for the last few years with the first two Iron Man movies, and he’s also been developing some other grand scale projects such as The Jungle Book and Magic Kingdom.

However he’s now squeezed in something a little smaller and which gives him the chance to both direct and play the lead.

The movie follows a former high class chef (Favreau) who decides to get team up with his ex-wife (Sofia Vergara), his best pal (John Leguizamo) and his son (Emjay Anthony) and get a food truck, which he hopes will get him out of the rut he’s stuck in.

The great cast also features Dustin Hoffman, Scarlett Johansson, Garry Shandling and Robert Downey Jr.

Chef is due out in the US on May 9th, before coming to the UK on June 20th. [Read more…]

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New Machete Kills UK Quad Poster – Sticking to the grindhouse roots with Danny Trejo & Charlie Sheen

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It is bizarre that a movie that started out as a fake trailer in Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez’s double-feature, Grindhouse as spawned a sequel and proved far more popular than the movie that introduced us to it. Machete Kills hits cinemas later this month and now a new UK quad poster has emerged, which you can see above.

In the movie, Machete is called on by the President to stop a Billionaire (Gibson) who’s planning to launch a missile into space.

Danny Trejo, Charlie Sheen, Mel Gibson, Cuba Gooding Jr., Demián Bichir, Michelle Rodriguez, Lady Gaga, Sofia Vergara, Amber Heard, Jessica Alba, Alexa Vega, Vanessa Hudgens, William Sadler, and Antonio Banderas star, with Robert Rodriguez directing.

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New Machete Kills Red Band Trailer – Danny Trejo, Sofia Vergara & Charlie Sheen get into the grindhouse action

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Machete Kills is nearly here, and to get us excited a new Red Band trailer has arrived, preparing us for the film’s October release. It gives a good feel for the movie, which is definitely sticking to its grindhouse roots, with ridiculously over the top violence and silliness.

It’s also keen to show off the cast, which includes Danny Trejo, Charlie Sheen, Mel Gibson, Cuba Gooding Jr., Demián Bichir, Michelle Rodriguez, Lady Gaga, Sofia Vergara, Amber Heard, Jessica Alba, Alexa Vega, Vanessa Hudgens, William Sadler, and Antonio Banderas.

In the movie, Machete is called on by the President to stop a Billionaire (Gibson) who’s planning to launch a missile into space. [Read more…]

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Machete Kills Poster Shows Off The Danny Trejo, Lady Gaga & More

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machete-kills-cast-posterAfter a long wait, Machete Kills will finally be in cinemas in October, and now a new poster has emerged, showing off most of the film’s main cast, including Danny Trejo, Charlie Sheen, Mel Gibson, Lady Gaga, Sofia Vergara, Michelle Rodriguez and more.

In the movie, Machete is called on by the President to stop a Billionaire (Gibson) who’s planning to launch a missile into space. Charlie Sheen plays the President, which is just about crazy enough to be true one day

Robert Rodriguez once more directs, so expect plenty more grindhouse madness.

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

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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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