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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

New Passengers Trailer – Chris Pratt & Jennifer Lawrence get lost in space

November 23, 2016 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

passengers-slide2I think the thing I like about this new trailer for Passengers is Chris Pratt’s expression, where he largely looks like he has no idea how he got on a spaceship. Like most of what Pratt does, it’s oddly endearing and helps suggest that despite the epic visuals, this won’t just be a typical sci-fi action fest. There are also some interesting hints toward Kubrick – from 2001 to The Shining – that are rather intriguing too.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt are two passengers onboard a spaceship transporting them to a new life on another planet. The trip takes a deadly turn when their hibernation pods mysteriously wake them 90 years before they reach their destination. As Jim and Aurora try to unravel the mystery behind the malfunction, they begin to fall for each other, unable to deny their intense attraction… only to be threatened by the imminent collapse of the ship and the discovery of the truth behind why they woke up.’

The movie will be released in December, with many expecting it to be a major hit, and that it may even get some awards consideration. It certainly look like it could be pretty good. [Read more…]

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ACTORS: Jennifer Lawrence, Chris Pratt  DIRECTORS: Morten Tyldum  FILMS: Passengers  

Passengers Trailer – Chris Pratt & Jennifer Lawrence get lost in space

September 20, 2016 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

passengers-poster-slideAlongside Arrival, Passengers is this autumn’s other most intriguing looking sci-fi movie. The trailer for the film has not arrived, which you can take a look at below.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt are two passengers onboard a spaceship transporting them to a new life on another planet. The trip takes a deadly turn when their hibernation pods mysteriously wake them 90 years before they reach their destination. As Jim and Aurora try to unravel the mystery behind the malfunction, they begin to fall for each other, unable to deny their intense attraction… only to be threatened by the imminent collapse of the ship and the discovery of the truth behind why they woke up.’

The movie will be released in December, which suggests both that those behind it feel it could do big business and maybe even get some awards consideration. It certainly look like it could be pretty good. [Read more…]

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ACTORS: Jennifer Lawrence, Chris Pratt  DIRECTORS: Morten Tyldum  FILMS: Passengers  

First Look At Jennifer Lawrence & Chris Pratt In Sci-fi Flick Passengers

August 12, 2016 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

passengers-ew-pic1Morten Tyldum certainly likes to move through genres, as he went thriller with Headhunters, historical drama with The Imitation Game, and now he’s heading into the world of sci-fi with Passengers. The first pics from the movie have arrived via EW.

Pratt play one of thousands of people who set off on an 120-year interstellar voyage to a new planet. However he wakes up 90 years ahead of schedule, with only androids for company. In need of other human, he decides to wake up a female journalist named Aurora (Lawrence). They inevitably begin to fall in love, and also discover a malfunction on the ship that could threaten their lives.

Tyldum comments, “I honestly couldn’t ask for a better cast. They’re so great together, and both of them are so hard-working. They take the characters so seriously and bring so much to the roles with charm and intelligence and charisma. They really went for it and it is phenomenal to watch.”

The film will be out at the end of the year.

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ACTORS: Jennifer Lawrence, Chris Pratt  DIRECTORS: Morten Tyldum  FILMS: Passengers  

The Imitation Game (Blu-ray Review)

March 8, 2015 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Charles Dance
Director: Morten Tyldum
Running Time: 114 mins
Certificate: 12
Release Date: March 9th 2015 (UK)

Despite eight Oscar nominations The Imitation Game only walked away with one award, Best Adapted Screenplay. To be honest that wasn’t a shock, as quite a few Oscar watchers had thought it would get nothing. And there are also some, including myself, wondering if the one Academy Award it did win was the right one.

The movie tells the story of Alan Turing (Benedict Cumberbatch), a socially awkward, somewhat irascible mathematics prodigy who, after the Second World War breaks out, applies to the government to help break the infamous Enigma code, something many believe is impossible. However he doesn’t want to continue with the traditional method of codebreaking, where smart men use pens, paper and just their brains, as he has an idea to use a machine to break down and then check the billions of possible combinations until it finds the right one. If he can do it, it will allow the Allies to read the German military’s secret communications and possibly win the war. [Read more…]

Imitation Game Director Defends The Film’s Lack Of Gay Sex

February 23, 2015 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

imitation-game-slideJust about everyone else involved with The Imitation Game has stepped up defend the fact it’s about a gay person but doesn’t portray its main subject as being particularly gay. While it doesn’t pretend Alan Turing was straight, in the movie he doesn’t have any sex and the only relationship we’re shown is a schoolboy infatuation.

Now it’s the turn of director Morten Tyldum to defends the lack of a gay relationship to Variety saying, “First of all, the time period we’re all focusing on, he didn’t have one. He described it in his own words as a ‘sexual desert’ in a letter. The whole thing is his relationship with Christopher [Turing’s male crush seen in flashbacks in grade school], about unfulfilled love.”

When pressed about the fact Turing did have relationships with men in real life, Morten says says, “He had people he had sex with, yes — especially in the time after the war, when he’s living in Manchester. The break-in that happens in the film is a male lover, which is discussed. It was actually someone he paid to have sex with. It was more of a hustler.”

Tyldum also says he doesn’t gay relationship and sex it would have enriched the film, adding, “The whole movie, the way it’s structured, we don’t know anything about this man. The whole investigation starts because he’s hiding something, but he’s not hiding what we think. It can’t start off with him having sex. It was not because we were afraid it would offend anybody. If I did the structure and had this thing about a straight character, I would never have a sex scene to prove that he’s heterosexual. If I have a gay character in a movie, I need to have a sex scene in it — just to prove that he’s gay? I’m not shying away from it. His whole relationship, how he falls in love and the importance of him being a gay man, was all about secrecy.”

However, rather like previous defenders such as Benedict Cumberbatch and Matthew Goode, Tyldum seems to acquaint showing someone being a fully gay person with filming them in bed with another man. What none on the defences have addressed is that most of the criticism is that some believe the movie presents Turing’s sexuality in a perfunctory way as a small adjunct to his personality, rather than as a key part of who he is. And seeing as he has increasingly become iconic for many LGBT people, they view this as a major problem with the film.

That said, it’s not like the movie pretends that he’s straight, so perhaps Tyldum has a clumsy point.

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DIRECTORS: Morten Tyldum  FILMS: The Imitation Game  

Jennifer Lawrence & Chris Pratt In Talks For Sci-fi Love Story Passengers

February 7, 2015 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Chris-Pratt-Jurassic-WorldIf you’re going to have a revolving door or female actresses attached to a project, ending up with Jennifer Lawrence isn’t a bad thing. While Reese Witherspoon and Rachel McAdams were previously attached, Lawrence is now in talks for the sci-fi romance, and to make the film a little more interesting, so is Chris Pratt, according to TheWrap.

Pratt is also replacing someone, as Keanu Reeves was attached for a long time.

Pratt will play one of thousands of people who set off on an 120-year interstellar voyage to a new planet. However he wakes up 90 years ahead of schedule, with only androids for company. In need of other human, he decides to wake up a female journalist named Aurora (Lawrence). They inevitably begin to fall in love, and also discover a malfunction on the ship that could threaten their lives.

Morten Tyldum (The Imitation Game, Headhunters) recently came onboard to direct the movie, although it’s not clear when the film will shoot.

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ACTORS: Chris Pratt, Jennifer Lawrence  DIRECTORS: Morten Tyldum  FILMS: Passengers  

The Imitation Game (Cinema Review)

November 12, 2014 By Mike Martin Leave a Comment

Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Kiera Knightley, Matthew Goode, Rory Kinnear, Charles Dance
Director: Morten Tyldum
Running Time: 117 mins
Certificate: UK
Release Date: November 14th 2014 (UK)

Rule one of cinema? Show, don’t tell. This seems to have been totally ignored by Norwegian director Morten Tyldum, who chooses to take one of the most extraordinary British stories of the 20th century and make it in such a dull, flat way it stretches patience to snapping point.

The story itself has been the subject of a West End play in Breaking the Code, and a film already, Enigma, although the central character was fictionalized. Here we get the true story of Alan Turing, the mathematical and linguistic genius who cracks codes for fun. However during WWII the Nazis invent a machine so complex it codes vital messages with 19,000,000,000,000,000,000 possible answers. It’s impossible to crack, right? But with U-boats sinking ships in the Atlantic and the Luftwaffe creating havoc in the skies it’s vital that someone crack the code. [Read more…]

The Imitation Game UK Trailer – Benedict Cumberbatch takes on Enigma as Alan Turing

October 2, 2014 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

imitation-game-poster2-slideNext week the London Film Festival kicks off with a gala screening of The Imitation Game, and then on November 14th it gets its UK release. With that in mind Studiocanal has released a new UK trailer for the film, which you can watch below.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘THE IMITATION GAME is a nail-biting race against time following Alan Turing (pioneer of modern-day computing and credited with cracking the German Enigma code) and his brilliant team at Britain’s top-secret code-breaking centre, Bletchley Park, during the darkest days of World War II. Turing, whose contributions and genius significantly shortened the war, saving thousands of lives, was the eventual victim of an unenlightened British establishment, but his work and legacy live on.’

What that for some reason doesn’t mention is that he became a ‘victim’ because he was gay, when he was prosecuted due to his sexuality. That resulted in him being chemically castrated and shunned by the establishment, despite his war achievements. He eventually died on cyanide poisoning in what most believe to be suicide. [Read more…]

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ACTORS: Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley  DIRECTORS: Morten Tyldum  FILMS: The Imitation Game  

Benedict Cumberbatch Gets His Own Imitation Game Poster

September 26, 2014 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

imitation-game-poster2It’s less than two weeks until the Alan Turing biopic The Imitation Game kicks off the BFI London Film Festival, and it’s not long after that that it will arrive in UK cinemas on November 14th.

Ahead of that comes a new poster. Unlike the last time, where Benedict Cumberbatch had his back to us, this one focuses on him completely.

And let’s just ignore the rather cheesy ‘Behind Every Code Is An Enigma’ strapline.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘THE IMITATION GAME is a nail-biting race against time following Alan Turing (pioneer of modern-day computing and credited with cracking the German Enigma code) and his brilliant team at Britain’s top-secret code-breaking centre, Bletchley Park, during the darkest days of World War II. Turing, whose contributions and genius significantly shortened the war, saving thousands of lives, was the eventual victim of an unenlightened British establishment, but his work and legacy live on.’

And yes, like every other mainstream movie about an LGBT subject, what that synopsis is skirting around is that Turing was gay, something the movie itself apparently doesn’t mince words about.

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ACTORS: Benedict Cumberbatch  DIRECTORS: Morten Tyldum  FILMS: The Imitation Game  

Benedict Cumberbatch Works On The Bombe In A New Imitation Game Poster

September 18, 2014 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

imitation-game-posterThe Imitation Game will kick off the London Film Festival on October 8th ahead of its UK release on November 14th. With the release fast approaching a new poster for the movie has arrived via Empire.

The image seems a bit mysterious unless you know a bit about the story it’s based on. It shows Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing standing in front of the bombe, the electromechanical machine he created to help decode the German Enigma codes during World War II (a different device to his famed first programmable computer, Colossus, which helped with the even more fiendish Lorenz cipher).

The film chronicles the nail-biting race against time by Turing and his brilliant team at Britain’s top-secret code-breaking centre, Bletchley Park. Turing, whose contributions and genius significantly shortened the war, saving thousands of lives, was the eventual victim of an unenlightened British Establishment.

Tragically in the 1950s Turing admitted to the police he was gay while reporting a robbery, believing they would protect him and catch those who’d stolen from him. Instead it was him who found himself in court. After he was convicted he was shunned by the establishment and despite his incredible mind he found himself pushed to the sidelines. He committed suicide (although some say it was an accident) not too long afterwards.

You can watch the trailer here.

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ACTORS: Benedict Cumberbatch  DIRECTORS: Morten Tyldum  FILMS: The Imitation Game  
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