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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

The Mercy Trailer – Colin Firth takes on a real-life sailing tale with Rachel Weisz

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Synopsis: ‘Following his Academy Award® winning film The Theory of Everything, James Marsh directs the incredible true story of Donald Crowhurst (COLIN FIRTH, The King’s Speech, Kingsman: The Secret Service, The Railway Man), an amateur sailor who competed in the 1968 Sunday Times Golden Globe Race in the hope of becoming the first person in history to single-handedly circumnavigate the globe without stopping. With an unfinished boat and his business and house on the line, Donald leaves his wife, Clare (RACHEL WEISZ, The Light Between Oceans, The Lobster) and their children behind, hesitantly embarking on an adventure on his boat the Teignmouth Electron.

‘Co-starring DAVID THEWLIS (Anomalisa, The Theory of Everything) and KEN STOTT (‘War & Peace’, The Hobbit), and produced by Blueprint Pictures (The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, In Bruges), the story of Crowhurst’s dangerous solo voyage and the struggles he confronted on the epic journey while his family awaited his return is one of the most enduring mysteries of recent times.’

The movie is due in UK cinemas 9th February 2018. Take a look at the trailer and poster below. [Read more…]

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Chris Pine & Michelle Williams Teaming For All the Old Knives

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It’s spy thriller time for Chris Pine and Michelle Williams, who are currently in negotiations to star in All the Old Knives. Variety also reports that Theory of Everything director James Marsh is in talks to helm.

The film is, ‘ set in the idyllic town of Carmel-by-the-Sea, where ex-lovers Henry and Celia – one a CIA spy and one an ex-CIA spy – meet for dinner and to reminisce. They relive their memories of the disastrous hijacking of Royal Jordanian Flight 127, which ended in the death of all on board, a failure that haunts the CIA’s Vienna station to this day. The question is whether Henry has come to dinner to rekindle the romance or to get to the bottom of a conspiracy. It also becomes clear that one of the ex-lovers may not survive the meal.’

The movie has been in the works for some time, with Neil Burger previously set to direct. However, it’s only now that it’s coming together with The Mark Gordon Company backing the movie and eOne handling distribution.

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The Theory of Everything Trailer – Eddie Redmayne takes us into the world of a young Stephen Hawking

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theory-of-everything-pic1-slideEver since he became famous, we’ve only known Stephen Hawking as a middle-aged man, who is relatively immobile in a wheelchair.

However the film The Theory Of Everything is going to take us back to his youth, when he was a carefree student at Cambridge, who at the age of 21 was diagnosed with motor neurone disease – along with a prognosis that he would be lucky if he lived just a few more years.

The trailer for the movie has now arrived, which you can watch below.

Here’s the official synopsis: ‘The Theory of Everything is the story of the most brilliant and celebrated physicist of our time, Stephen Hawking (Eddie Redmayne), and Jane Wilde (Felicity Jones) the arts student he fell in love with whilst studying at Cambridge in the 1960s.

‘Little was expected from Stephen Hawking, a bright but shiftless student of cosmology, given just two years to live following the diagnosis of a fatal illness at 21 years of age. He became galvanized, however, by the love of fellow Cambridge student, Jane Wilde, and he went on to be called the successor to Einstein, as well as a husband and father to their three children. Over the course of their marriage as Stephen’s body collapsed and his academic renown soared, fault lines were exposed that tested the lineaments of their relationship and dramatically altered the course of both of their lives.

‘Professor Stephen Hawking is one of the most famous scientists of our age and author of the bestseller, “A Brief History of Time”, which has sold millions of copies world-wide.’

The film should be out in the US in November, with a January 1st UK release date set. [Read more…]

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Felicity Jones Joins Stephen Hawking Biopic Theory Of Everything

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felicity-jonesA couple of weeks ago we reported that Eddie Redmayne was in talks to play Stephen Hawking in a biopic of the physicist’s early days, Theory Of Everything. Now he’s signed on the dotted line and it looks like he’s getting a co-star as Deadline reports that Felicity Jones has signed up to play Hawking’s first wife, Jane.

The film will focus on the relationship between Hawking and Jane. He met her shortly before he was diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease while studying at Cambridge at the age of 21. They then stayed together and married, even when he was told he might not live for more than two years. Of course that prognosis turned out to be completely wrong as he’s still with us now.

They were married from 1965 to 1991 and had three children together. In recent years they’ve become great friends again, so there is kind of a happy ending.

Working Title is backing the movie, with Man On Wire’s James Marsh set to direct. Filming will start later this year.

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Eddie Redmayne Finds The Theory Of Everything As Stephen Hawking

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eddie-redmayneEddie Redmayne’s star is certainly on the rise thanks to the likes of Les Miserables. Now he’s signed up for a slightly Oscar-bait role, as Deadline reports he’ll play a young Stephen Hawking in the movie Theory of Everything.

Working Title is backing the movie, with Man On Wire’s James Marsh set to direct. The only info on the exact plot of the movie is that it will ‘focus on the relationship between Hawking and his wife’. However it doesn’t say which wife, as he’s had two. We’re presuming that it’s his first, Jane Wilde, who he met shortly before he was diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease while studying at Cambridge at the age of 21, and who stayed with him even when he was told he might not live more than two years longer.

Redmayne is also being sought to star with Carey Mulligan and Matthias Schoenaerts in Far From The Madding Crowd, which the Thomas Vinterberg is set to direct. However he may end up passing on that project so he can concentrate on the Hawking movie.

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Shadow Dancer (DVD)

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Shadow dancer is a good solid drama set in the early 1990s. Colette McVeigh is an active member of the IRA and is on a mission to commit an act of terrorism in London. Due to unknown reasons, she has last minute thoughts about the carnage she is about to cause, places the incendiary device in the place least likely to cause harm and to arouse the least suspicion from her IRA colleagues. She is subsequently caught and interrogated by MI5 and sent back to Ireland as a mole, using her son as collateral.

The ensuing drama that unfolds relates to relationships between Colette (played brilliantly by rising star Andrea Riseborough) and her MI5 agent Mac (played solidly by Clive Owen) and the friction between her, her family and other members of the IRA cell, as suspicions start to arise and questions are asked. There’s also double dealing with and distrust within MI5

This bleak drama is set in the often rainy backdrop of damp Belfast, which sets the mood for most of the scenes. One of the most interesting and accurate facts about the film is the technology the agents were using in the 1990s, with large, clumsy PCs taking up half the desk, which also reminds us how recent the volatile peace treaty was signed.

Where the film works is in the often fraught relationships between all the characters, where mistrust of everyone is apparent, as the IRA try to find their mole, tensions rise as does the relationship between Colette and Mac, as well as with Mac and his colleagues

The star of the film is Andrea Riseborough, it is not the dialogue that drives her performance but the angst and frustration shown by her very movements in every scene. The supporting cast are all excellent in their roles too including the ever reliable Gillian Anderson.

Robert Pattinson & Carey Mulligan Up For Hold On To Me

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British actors Robert Pattinson and Carey Mulligan are planning to team up to star in the true crime drama Hold On to Me (previously known and Nancy & Danny), with director James Marsh (Man on Wire, Project Nim) on board to direct, according to Deadline.

The project is based on the true story of a young couple who decide to kidnap their town’s richest man and hold him for ransom. When they decide to bury him alive, their plan begins to fall apart. Robert Pattinson will play Jimmy, the woman’s longtime lover who is not involved in the crime. Mulligan is up to play Nancy, the women who gets into the kidnapping. The role of the man who gets into crime is yet to be cast.

Brad Ingelsby (Out of the Furnace) wrote the screenplay. No production schedule was given, although the filmmakers will be seeking buyers at the American Film Market next month.

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