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

Vice Trailer – Christian Bale transforms into former Vice President Dick Cheney

October 7, 2018 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

For a long time Adam McKay was just about comedy,  making movies with Will Ferrell such as Anchorman, Talladega Nights, Step Brothers and The Other Guys. However, recently he’s been stretching his wings with the likes of The Big Short (for which he received two Oscar nominations) and now Vice.

The movie features another of Christian Bale’s trademark transformations, so he can play Vice President Dick Cheney. He stars alongside Amy Adams, Steve Carell and Sam Rockwell.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘VICE explores the epic story about how a bureaucratic Washington insider quietly became the most powerful man in the world as Vice-President to George W. Bush, reshaping the country and the globe in ways that we still feel today.’ Take a look at the trailer below. [Read more…]

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ACTORS: Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Steve Carell, Sam Rockwell  DIRECTORS: Adam Mckay  

Christian Bale, Steve Carell & Amy Adams In Talks For Adam McKay’s Dick Cheney Movie

April 8, 2017 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Adam McKay​ is best known for directing Will Ferrell in films like Stepbrothers, Anchorman and The Other Guys. However, as he showed with The Big Short (for which he won a writing Oscar), he also has more serious interests. That’s resulted in him working on a movie about the former US Vice President (under George W. Bush), Dick Cheney.

Now that film is casting, with THR reporting that Christian Bale, Steve Carell and Amy Adams are all in early talks to star in the movie. If it all comes together, Bale would play ‘Cheney, who was an ardent supporter of strong anti-terrorist actions and a key supporter of the Iraq War. Cheney also is the former CEO of the multinational corporation Halliburton. Carell is circling the role of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Adams would play Cheney’s wife, Lynne Cheney.’

There’s little further info on the movie, such as whether it will cover much of Cheney’s life, or solely cover a particular period in his life. He’s an intriguing figure, seen by some as the real President during George W. Bush’s tenure, by some as a war criminal, and by others as a rather inept person (mostly due to an incident where he accidentally shot a friend in the face during a hunting trip). It’s now clear when the biopic might start shooting.

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ACTORS: Amy Adams, Christian Bale, Steve Carell  DIRECTORS: Adam Mckay  

The Big Short (Blu-ray Review)

May 22, 2016 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: Ryan Gosling, Christian Bale, Brad Pitt, Steve Carell, Finn Wittrock
Director: Adam Mckay
Running Time: 130 mins
Certificate: 15
Release Date: May 23rd 2016 (UK)

There’s an odd contradiction at the heart of The Big Short, as it’s a movie where the ‘heroes’ are people who managed to make out like bandits due to the world economy collapsing. Thankfully though the film knows that and is at pain to point out that while the main characters may have realised what was going on before anyone else, they’re also aware that while what they’re doing may be good for their investors, it’s also built on the back of the misery of a lot of normal people.

Based on real events, the ensemble film tells a trio of interwoven tales set during the run up to the economic meltdown of 2008. Christian Bale is Michael Burry, an eccentric hedge fund manager who realises that there’s something strange going on in the housing market, and that the financial instruments that it is now based on are a house of cards that have become increasingly corrupt and that it’s only a matter of time until the whole thing collapses. While these instruments are rising in value and billions are being made from them, Burry knows that many of the underlying loans they are based on are worthless. [Read more…]

The Big Short Trailer – Christian Bale, Ryan Gosling & Brad Pitt get into a financial crisis

September 22, 2015 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

big-short-trailer-slideThe Big Short certainly has an impressive cast – including Christian Bale, Ryan Gosling, Steve Carell, Melissa Leo, Brad Pitt, Marisa Tomei, Karen Gillan and Selena Gomez – all attracted by a major studio movie that takes on the causes of the financial crisis, and those who saw what was coming when no one else could.

They also all seem to have slightly odd hair, but perhaps financial type people like having hair that looks like it was stuck on their head.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘When four outsiders saw what the big banks, media and government refused to, the global collapse of the economy, they had an idea: The Big Short. Their bold investment leads them into the dark underbelly of modern banking where they must question everyone and everything. Based on the true story and best-selling book by Michael Lewis (The Blind Side, Moneyball), and directed by Adam Mckay (Anchorman, Step Brothers) The Big Short stars Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling and Brad Pitt.’

An Oscar-qualifying Christmas release is planned for the US before in spreads to the rest of the world in early 2016. [Read more…]

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ACTORS: Christian Bale, Ryan Gosling, Steve Carell, Melissa Leo, Brad Pitt, Marisa Tomei, Karen Gillan, Selena Gomez  DIRECTORS: Adam Mckay  

Will Ferrell Defends Anti-Gay Jokes In His New Movie Get Hard

March 25, 2015 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Get-Hard-Poster-slideWhile conservatives love to heap scorn on Hollywood, seeing it as a bunch of gay-loving liberals, it’s still a fact that that Tinsel Town likes to make cheap, anti-gay jokes whenever it can, and doesn’t see much wrong with it (probably because the audience still laughs).

Numerous people have commented on such jokes in Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart’s new movie, Get Hard, in which Ferrell’s character is wrongly convicted of tax evasion and sent to jail, and so enlists the help of his black friend to prepare him for prison life. As you can probably guess that leaves plenty of room for ‘don’t drop the soap in the showers’ type jokes, with Will’s character utterly paranoid he’s going to get raped by another man. It caused Variety to comment that the film contains “some of the ugliest gay-panic humor to befoul a studio release in recent memory.”

However Ferrell himself isn’t offering any apologies for what some are suggesting are both homopphobic and racist undertones to the movie, telling AP, “Any time you’re going to do an R-rated comedy, you’re going to offend someone. But that’s kind of what we do. We provoke. We prod. We also show a mirror to what’s already existing out there. We’re playing fictitious characters who are articulating some of the attitudes and misconceptions that already exist.”

That sounds like a whole lot of rationalisation to me, to excuse some extremely cheap jokes.

Ferell’s collaborator and fellow Get Hard producer Adam McKay adds, “Any individual going to maximum security prison would be afraid of violence and sexual assault. To equate that with homosexuality is ridiculous.”

While technically correct, it is completely disingenuous as the fact is that most jokes about prison rape aren’t based around the fear of sexual violence, they’re predicated on the idea that being the bottom in anal sex is the ultimate in emasculation. Indeed the jokes rarely focus on the rape part – it is the idea of a penis up the ass that is ‘funny’, not the fact that it has been forced on them. Indeed there’s also an edge of mysogyny, as it’s the fact they are being made the ‘woman’ in sex that is often presented as the central fear, and apparently a truly hilarious idea.

To be honest, prison rape jokes are old, lazy and you would have hoped Hollywood would have grown past them, or at least found more mature ways to deal with a genuinely serious problem in jails. Instead they use jokes that, whatever they claim, rely on outdated gay sterotypes, not on the fear of sexual violence as McKay suggests. Sure Get Hard is a comedy, but that doesn’t mean it has to be ugly.

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ACTORS: Will Ferrell  DIRECTORS: Adam Mckay  FILMS: Get Hard  

Brad Pitt, Christian Bale & Ryan Gosling Up For The Big Short

January 13, 2015 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

bale-pitt-goslingIt’s all star cast time, as Variety reports that Brad Pitt, Christian Bale and Ryan Gosling are teaming up for the financial drama, The Big Short. Pitt also has his producer hat on for the movie, which will be his second adaptation of a Michael Lewis non-fiction book, following Moneyball.

Part of the reason for the starry line-up isn’t just down to Pitt’s involvement and Lewis’ reputation, but because it will be one of the first studio movies directly about the financial crash in the 2000s. Many have noticed that despite the global ramifications of the credit crunch and its fallout, Hollywood has generally only dealt with it obliquely. Even those films which appear to deal with it, such as The Wolf Of Wall Street, have tended to look at individuals more than the machine itself.

However Lewis ‘book tells the story of the build-up of the housing and credit bubble during the 2000s that led to the financial crisis of 2007-2010’.

Some have suggested Tinsel Town’s reluctance to handle it directly is due to the fact the studios rely on many of the institutions implicated in the crash for funding and financial ‘expertise’, and so haven’t wanted to be too critical. However Paramount is planning to back The Big Short.

It’s expected more major talent will sign up, as it’s planned as a Traffic-style ensemble tale, with lots of characters all who have a roughly similar sized role. However at the moment it’s not known currently involved actors will play.

Adam McKay, who’s best known for his comedy work with Will Ferrell (such as Anchorman, The Other Guys and Step Brothers), is set to write and direct. It’s not clear when it will shoot.

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ACTORS: Brad Pitt, Christian Bale, Ryan Gosling  DIRECTORS: Adam Mckay  

Will Ferrell Wants To Be A Manimal

July 23, 2014 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

will-ferrellThe 1983 TV show Manimal only lasted eight episodes, but it’s taken on mythic proportions due to it’s wonderfully daft title and premise of being about a guy helps solve crimes by turning into all sorts of different animals.

Will Ferrell and Adam McKay think it’s an idea ripe for an action comedy makeover, as they will be working with Jimmy Miller’s Mosaic through their Gary Sanchez Productions banner to produce a feature film version, according to Variety.

The original show starred British actor Simon MacCorkindale as Dr. Jonathan Chase, a rich man raised in Africa who was a ‘master of the secrets that divide man from animal’. The film version will be a CG animated/Live-action hybrid.

Anchorman director Adam McKay comments, “I think it’s right down our alley, it’s what we do. It’s tongue-in-cheek and has an action component, but overall it’s a comedy. Like The Catcher In The Rye or The Sound And The Fury, Manimal has always been one of those elusive projects every producer dreams of taking to the silver screen. I know the movie will be funny and entertaining, but will it be the first film to win a Pulitzer? We’ll just have to see.”

It’s not clear is Will Ferrell will star, but it seems likely.

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ACTORS: Will Ferrell  DIRECTORS: Adam Mckay  

Peyton Reed Announced To Direct Marvel’s Ant Man

June 7, 2014 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

peyton-reedAfter Edgar Wright’s departure and Adam McKay saying he couldn’t do it, Marvel has been scrambling to find a replacement director for Ant Man. As they want to keep their Summer 2015 release date, there’s only a short list of directors with the right experience and who might be free.

Now it seems they’ve found one they think can do the job – Peyton Reed. He has plenty of experience with comedy, having helmed the likes of Bring It On, The Break-up and Yes Man. However he hasn’t really done much on the major tentpole action or, special effects front, so this will be something rather different for him.

He’s not a name that’s likely to get that many people excited (and indeed some will undoubtedly say he’s been brought in more by necessity than that he’s truly the right man for the job), but he’s a decent director and if he’s got the right people around him to help with the more technical FX side, there’s no reason to say he can’t make a success of it.

Along with the news of who will direct came a bit more of a plot synopsis, which says, ‘When Marvel’s “Ant-Man” hits theaters July 17, 2015, director Peyton Reed will help shepherd the hero into the Marvel Cinematic Universe with a cast led by Paul Rudd and Michael Douglas, with writer Adam McKay contributing to the film’s script.

‘Armed with the astonishing ability to shrink in scale but increase in strength, con-man Scott Lang (Rudd) must embrace his inner-hero and help his mentor, Dr. Hank Pym (Douglas), protect the secret behind his spectacular Ant-Man suit from a new generation of towering threats. Against seemingly insurmountable obstacles, Pym and Lang must plan and pull off a heist that will save the world.’

It’s interesting news that while McKay won’t direct, he will put the final touches on the script, especially as it was the changes new writers had added to Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish’s script that resulted in Wright walking. Hopefully when the film’s released Edgar will let us know how close it is to what he was planning.

It also means that Reed will have to push back his work on The Fifth Beatle, about the legendary music group’s gay manager, Brian Epstein.

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ACTORS: Paul Rudd, Michael Douglas  DIRECTORS: Peyton Reed, Adam Mckay, Edgar Wright  FILMS: Ant Man  

Adam McKay Won’t Helm Marvel’s Ant-Man After All

June 2, 2014 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

adam-mckayOver the weekend we reported that Adam McKay had entered negotiations to direct Marvel’s Ant-Man, but no sure was he in than he was out again. Variety reports that McKay dropped out of his own volition.

Talks began in earnest on Friday, but by Saturday the Anchorman helmer has decided to depart. He’s since said the reason for the quick in-out is that he loves the comics and was keen on making a Marvel movie, but with numerous other projects in the works, be simply couldn’t devote the time needed for it.

Marvel is apparently desperate to keep the film’s July 2015 release date and so will be trying to fill the void as quickly as possible. It’s been suggested that Rawson Marshall Thurber, known for the likes of Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story and We’re the Millers, and Zombieland’s Ruben Fleischer are in contention, but no official talks took place.

Fleischer apparently also rules himself out so that he can spend more time with his wife and newborn baby. Expect more news soon.

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DIRECTORS: Adam Mckay  FILMS: Ant Man  

Adam McKay in Talks To Helm Marvel’s Ant-Man

May 31, 2014 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

adam-mckayAfter last week’s shock news that Edgar Wright was stepping away from Ant-Man despite working on it since 2006 (apparently he was upset with last minute script rewrites), Marvel has been scrambling to find a replacement, partly in the hope they wouldn’t have to delay the summer 2015 opening.

Now it seems they’ve found one, as AICN and Variety reports that frequent Will Ferrell collaborator Adam McKay has been offered the job.

It’s an interesting choice, as it suggests that Marvel still hopes Ant Man will be a comedy (there had been suggestions the rewrites had stripped out a lot of the humour), although perhaps a more mainstream one that the usually quirky Edgar Wright might have been hoping for. McKay has also worked with Paul Rudd on the likes of Anchorman – so a rapport with the leading man already exists – and the director has shown he can handle action with the likes of The Other Guys.

It will be more of an effects film than anything he’s done before though, although the likes of Talladega Nights has involved SFX work. It’ll be interesting to see if they bring in Will Ferrell in some capacity, as McKay has never directed a feature-length movie without him.

The director does have plenty of other films in the works, but if he signs on for Ant Man, he’ll have to drop everything else, especially if it’s going to keep its July 17th, 2015 release date.

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ACTORS: Paul Rudd, Will Ferrell  DIRECTORS: Adam Mckay, Edgar Wright  FILMS: Ant Man  
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