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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

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…]

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  

To Rome With Love Trailer

April 4, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

After the wonderful Midnight In Paris last year, it’s fingers crossed that Woody Allen can continue his winning streak while simultaneously continuing his European tour, this time heading to Italy for To Rome With Love. The trailer doesn’t exactly make the plot clear, although it will follow a number of people in Italy, some American, some Italian, some residents, some visitors, and the romances and adventures and predicaments they get into. Woody stars alongside Ellen Page, Jesse Eisenberg, Penelope Cruz, Alex Baldwin and Roberto Benigni. No UK release is currently set, but it’ll be out later this year.

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ACTORS: Woody Allen, Ellen Page, Jesse Eisenberg, Penelope Cruz, Alex Baldwin, Roberto Benigni  DIRECTORS: Woody Allen  FILMS: To Rome With Love  

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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