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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 Founder (Blu-ray Review) – The rise of a fast food giant and the death of someone’s dream

June 11, 2017 By Tim Isaac 2 Comments

Starring: Michael Keaton, Nick Offerman, John Carroll Lynch, Linda Cardellini, Laura Dern
Director: John Lee Hancock
Running Time: 115 mins
Certificate: 15
Release Date: June 12th 2017 (UK)

Ray Kroc (Michael Keaton) is feeling slightly over-the-hill in his job selling milkshake machine to drive-in restaurants. Then he suddenly gets an order for six mixers – far more than he thinks any restaurant could possibly need. However, the order is correct, so Ray decides to visit this place out in San Bernadino California, where he discovers the McDonald’s hamburger stand.

The McDonald brother, Dick and Mac (Nick Offerman and John Carroll Lynch) have completely reinvented the concept of the diner-type restaurant. From getting people to come to the window to order and serving them food in waxed paper, to a carefully designed system to be able to complete an order in seconds, Ray has never seen anything like it. [Read more…]

The Founder Trailer – Michael Keaton takes on McDonald’s Ray Kroc biopic

December 7, 2016 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

The Founder has had mixed notices in early reviews, but most people agree that Michael Keaton is great in the movie, and may well be in with a shot of an Oscar nomination. Now a new trailer for the movie has arrived.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘THE FOUNDER, directed by John Lee Hancock (THE BLIND SIDE, SAVING MR. BANKS), features the true story of how Ray Kroc (Michael Keaton), a struggling salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California. Kroc was impressed by the brothers’ speedy system of making the food and saw franchise potential. Writer Robert Siegel (THE WRESTLER) details how Kroc maneuvered himself into a position to be able to pull the company from the brothers and create a billion-dollar empire. The film also stars Laura Dern as Ray Kroc’s first wife Ethel; Linda Cardellini as his second wife Joan Smith; John Carroll Lynch as Mac McDonald and Nick Offerman as Dick McDonald.’

The movie is getting an Oscar qualifying run starting today, before getting a full release in the US in January and the UK in February. Take a look at the new trailer below. [Read more…]

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ACTORS: Michael Keaton  DIRECTORS: John Lee Hancock  

Saving Mr. Banks (Blu-ray)

March 23, 2014 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: Emma Thompson, Tom Hanks, Colin Farrell, Paul Giamatti, Bradley Whitford
Director: John Lee Hancock
Running Time: 125 mins
Certificate: PG
Release Date: March 24th 2014

Cor blimey Mary Poppins! It’s 50 years since the Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke starrer arrived in cinemas, won the Best Picture Oscar and became one of the greatest family classics ever. However as Saving Mr. Banks shows, Disney’s attempt to get the character on the screen started a long time before the movies 1964 debut, as the character’s creator, PL Travers, wasn’t keen on selling the screen rights. [Read more…]

John Lee Hancock Brought In To Oversee Malificent Reshoots

October 11, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

john-lee-hancockIt seems there may be a couple of issues with Walt Disney Pictures’s Maleficent, as the House Of Mouse has hired John Lee Hancock (The Blind Side) to write new scenes for the upcoming reshoots. He won’t helm the additional material himself, but he is coming on board to help oversee the production with first-time director Robert Stromberg, according to THR.

Producer Joe Roth commented, “We asked him to be on set. He’s not directing. He wrote pages, and I hired a first-time director, and it’s good to have him on set. The movie is gorgeous to look at, and the last 75 minutes are really entertaining. The issue is the opening, which is being reshot over eight days.”

The extra shooting does not include any scenes with star Angelina Jolie, who recently started production on her next directorial effort Unbroken in Australia. Maleficent, a revisionist take on Sleeping Beauty told from the villain’s point of view, is still slated for release on May 30, 2014.

Although reshoots can be a sign of major problems, they’re increasingly being used to iron out kinks, which seems to be what is happening here if Jolie doesn’t need to be involved. It is farily rare to have another director oversee them though. The movie is in cinemas next summer.

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ACTORS: Angelina Jolie  DIRECTORS: Robert Stromberg, John Lee Hancock  FILMS: Maleficent  

Saving Mr. Banks Trailer – Tom Hanks channels his inner Walt Disney

July 12, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

It looks like Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson are hoping to dust off their Oscar outfits with nominations for Saving Mr. Banks, about Walt Disney’s difficulties getting Mary Poppins author PL Travers to allow him to make a film version.

The film follows how, before signing away the book’s rights, Mary Poppins author PL Travers’ demands for contractual script and character control circumvent not only Disney’s vision for the film adaptation, but also those of the creative team of screenwriter Don DaGradi and sibling composers Richard and Robert Sherman.

When Travers travels from London to Hollywood in 1961 to finally discuss Disney’s desire to bring her beloved character to the motion picture screen (a quest he began in the 1940s as a promise to his two daughters), Disney meets a prim, uncompromising sexagenarian not only suspect of the impresario’s concept for the film, but a woman struggling with her own past. During her stay in California, Travers’ reflects back on her childhood in 1906 Australia, a trying time for her family which not only moulded her aspirations to write, but also inspired the characters in her 1934 book.

The film is due for an Oscar-bait December 2013 release. [Read more…]

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ACTORS: Emma Thompson  DIRECTORS: John Lee Hancock  FILMS: Saving Mr. Banks  

First Official Look At Tom Hanks & Emma Thompson In Saving Mr Banks

July 11, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

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Saving Mr. Banks is one of those films that could either be fascinating or only really interesting to film types, but either way it sees Disney delving into its own history, with Tom Hanks as the company’s founder, Walt, and Emma Thompson as the creator of Mary Poppins.

Now the first official image from the film has been released, which you can see above.

The film follows how, before signing away the book’s rights, Mary Poppins author PL Travers’ demands for contractual script and character control circumvent not only Disney’s vision for the film adaptation, but also those of the creative team of screenwriter Don DaGradi and sibling composers Richard and Robert Sherman.

When Travers travels from London to Hollywood in 1961 to finally discuss Disney’s desire to bring her beloved character to the motion picture screen (a quest he began in the 1940s as a promise to his two daughters), Disney meets a prim, uncompromising sexagenarian not only suspect of the impresario’s concept for the film, but a woman struggling with her own past. During her stay in California, Travers’ reflects back on her childhood in 1906 Australia, a trying time for her family which not only moulded her aspirations to write, but also inspired the characters in her 1934 book.

The film is due for an Oscar-bait December 2013 release.

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ACTORS: Emma Thompson, Tom Hanks  DIRECTORS: John Lee Hancock  FILMS: Saving Mr. Banks  

Liam Neeson & Woody Harrelson May Take On Highwaymen

April 11, 2013 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

liam-neeson-taken-pic1Bonnie & Clyde are criminal legends, with their deaths becoming iconic thanks to the shootout at the end of Arthur Penn’s classic 1967 film. But what about the men in charge of catching them, who were on the other end of the guns when Barrow and Parker died?

Well now Deadline reports that Liam Neeson and Woody Harrelson are being courted to star in Highwaymen, about the two Texas Rangers who managed to hunt down and kill Bonnie and Clyde during their Depression Era crime spree. John Lee Hancock (The Blind Side) is attached to direct.

John Fusco (Hidalgo, The Forbidden Kingdom) wrote the script, with Media Rights Capital and Universal Pictures teaming up to fund the movie (as they did with Ted).

It could certainly be an interesting tale to tell, especially as Clyde Barrow was a nasty piece of work who was nothing like Warren Beatty’s romanticised portrayal. Maybe this film will paint a truer picture of exactly why the authorities wanted him out of the picture.

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ACTORS: Woody Harrelson, Liam Neeson  DIRECTORS: John Lee Hancock  FILMS: Highwaymen  

Rachel Griffiths & Kathy Baker Are Saving Mr Banks As The Movie Starts Shooting

September 20, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Disney is delving into its own history with Saving Mr Banks, looking at Walt’s difficulties getting the rights to Mary Poppins from author PL Travers. The film has now started shooting, with Rachel Griffiths and Kathy Baker joining the cast.

Tom Hanks is playing Walt Disney (it’s the first time the entrepreneur has ever been depicted in a dramatic film) alongside fellow double Oscar-winner Emma Thompson in the role of prickly novelist, Travers. The film follows how, before signing away the book’s rights, Travers’ demands for contractual script and character control circumvent not only Disney’s vision for the film adaptation, but also those of the creative team of screenwriter Don DaGradi and sibling composers Richard and Robert Sherman.

When Travers travels from London to Hollywood in 1961 to finally discuss Disney’s desire to bring her beloved character to the motion picture screen (a quest he began in the 1940s as a promise to his two daughters), Disney meets a prim, uncompromising sexagenarian not only suspect of the impresario’s concept for the film, but a woman struggling with her own past. During her stay in California, Travers’ reflects back on her childhood in 1906 Australia, a trying time for her family which not only molded her aspirations to write, but one that also inspired the characters in her 1934 book.

None more so than the one person whom she loved and admired more than any other – her caring father, Travers Goff, a tormented banker who, before his untimely death, instills the youngster with both affection and enlightenment. He became the muse for the Mary Poppins story’s patriarch, Mr. Banks. While reluctant to grant Disney the film rights, Travers comes to realise that the acclaimed Hollywood storyteller has his own motives for wanting to make the film – which, like the author, hints at the relationship he shared with his own father in the early 20th Century Midwest.

Colin Farrell will play Travers’ doting dad, with Ruth Wilson as his long-suffering wife, Margaret. Rachel Griffiths will play Margaret’s sister, Aunt Ellie (who inspired the title character of Travers’ novel). Kathy Baker will be Tommie, one of Disney’s trusted studio associates. The cast also includes Bradley Whitford as screenwriter Don DaGradi; Jason Schwartzman and B.J. Novak as the songwriting Sherman Brothers (Richard and Robert, respectively); and Paul Giamatti as Ralph, the kindly limousine driver who escorts Travers during her two-week stay in Hollywood.

Saving Mr. Banks will be directed by John Lee Hancock (The Blind Side) based on a screenplay by Kelly Marcel (creator of FOX-TV’s Terra Nova), from a story by Sue Smith (Brides of Christ, Bastard Boys) and Kelly Marcel. Saving Mr. Banks will film entirely in the Los Angeles area, with key locations to include Disneyland in Anaheim and the Disney Studios in Burbank. Filming will conclude around Thanksgiving, 2012, with no specific 2013 release date yet set.

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ACTORS: Rachel Griffiths, Kathy Baker, Emma Thompson, Tom Hanks  DIRECTORS: John Lee Hancock  FILMS: Saving Mr. Banks  

Paul Giamatti & Jason Schwartzman Join Saving Mr. Banks

July 26, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Paul Giamatti, Jason Schwartzman, and Ruth Wilson have joined Disney’s Saving Mr. Banks for director John Lee Hancock (The Blind Side), bolstering a cast that already includes Emma Thompson and Tom Hanks.

The movie is about Mary Poppins author P.L. Travers (Emma Thompson), who was courted for 14 years by Walt Disney (Tom Hanks) for the screen rights to her beloved novel, before she reluctantly agreed. After she didn’t approve of the 1964 classic’s animated sequences, she refused to sell another book to the studio.

Paul Giamatti is playing Ralph, P.L. Travers’ chauffeur when she spends time in Los Angeles. Jason Schwartzman will be Richard Sherman, the songwriter who wrote a number of tunes for Disney classics such as Mary Poppins, The Jungle Book, and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Ruth Wilson is the author’s mother in flashback scenes, along with Colin Farrell as P.L. Travers’ father, who inspired the Poppins character of Mr, Banks. (Source: Variety)

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ACTORS: Paul Giamatti, Jason Schwartzman, Ruth Wilson, Emma Thompson, Tom Hanks  DIRECTORS: John Lee Hancock  FILMS: Saving Mr. Banks  

Colin Farrell Will Be Saving Mr. Banks

June 16, 2012 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Saving Mr. Banks got off the ground with a strong cast already attached, as Tom Hanks is set to play Walt Disney and Emma Thompson as Mary Poppins author PL Travers. Now Colin Farrell is in negotiations to join the Walt Disney Pictures film, according to Deadline.

The film is about Travers and shifts between her childhood days in early 1900s Queensland, which helped inform her creation of Mary Popping, and her experiences in the 1960s, negotiating with Walt Disney (Tom Hanks) for a big-screen adaptation of her books. She long held out from Disney’s advances, but eventually sold the rights (although she wasn’t happy with the resulting film).

Colin Farrell will play the author’s father, a banker who starts drinking heavily after going through some hard times financially. His hardships had a profound effect on her writing and it was him who Mr. Banks in Mary Poppins was based on.

John Lee Hancock is directing from a screenplay by Kelly Marcel, with shooting scheduled to begin in the autumn.

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ACTORS: Colin Farrell, Emma Thompson, Tom Hanks  DIRECTORS: John Lee Hancock  FILMS: Saving Mr. Banks  
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