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

New Widows Trailer – Viola Davis, Elizabeth Debicki & Michelle Rodriguez star in Steve McQueen’s latest

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Synopsis: From Academy Award®-winning director Steve McQueen (“12 Years a Slave”) and co-writer and bestselling author Gillian Flynn (“Gone Girl”), comes a blistering, modern-day thriller set against the backdrop of crime, passion and corruption. “Widows” is the story of four women with nothing in common except a debt left behind by their dead husbands’ criminal activities.

‘Set in contemporary Chicago, amid a time of turmoil, tensions build when Veronica (Oscar® winner Viola Davis), Alice (Elizabeth Debicki), Linda (Michelle Rodriguez) and Belle (Cynthia Erivo) take their fate into their own hands and conspire to forge a future on their own terms. “Widows” also stars Liam Neeson, Colin Farrell, Robert Duvall, Daniel Kaluuya and Brian Tyree Henry.’

Widows releases in UK cinemas November 9. Take a look at the trailer for the movie below. [Read more…]

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Widows Trailer – Viola Davis, Elizabeth Debicki & Michelle Rodriguez star in Steve McQueen’s latest

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Synopsis: From Academy Award®-winning director Steve McQueen (“12 Years a Slave”) and co-writer and bestselling author Gillian Flynn (“Gone Girl”), comes a blistering, modern-day thriller set against the backdrop of crime, passion and corruption. “Widows” is the story of four women with nothing in common except a debt left behind by their dead husbands’ criminal activities.

‘Set in contemporary Chicago, amid a time of turmoil, tensions build when Veronica (Oscar® winner Viola Davis), Alice (Elizabeth Debicki), Linda (Michelle Rodriguez) and Belle (Cynthia Erivo) take their fate into their own hands and conspire to forge a future on their own terms. “Widows” also stars Liam Neeson, Colin Farrell, Robert Duvall, Daniel Kaluuya and Brian Tyree Henry.’

Widows releases in UK cinemas November 9. Take a look at the trailer for the movie below. [Read more…]

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Colin Farrell Joining Viola Davis In Steve McQueen’s Widows

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Colin Farrell is certainly filling up his dance card, as he recently signed on to star in Disney’s live-action Dumbo movie, and now he’s also set to join Viola Davis in Steve McQueen’s Widows, according to Variety. The film will be the director’s first film since his Oscar-winning 12 Years A Slave.

The film is based on Lyda La Plante’s acclaimed 1983 British miniseries ‘about a caper gone wrong, the story follows four armed robbers who are killed in a failed heist attempt, leaving their widows to finish the job.’ Farrell will play a politician who gets mixed up in the criminality.

As well as Viola Davis and Colin Farrell, Liam Neeson, Elizabeth Debicki, Cynthia Erivo, Michelle Rodriguez, Daniel Kaluuya, and Andre Holland are set to star. Gone Girl author Gillian Flynn is set to pen the screenplay. The movie is due to start shooting fairly soon, with Farrell slotting it in before Tim Burton’s Dumbo.

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12 Years A Slave Trailer – Chiwetel Ejiofor, Benedict Cumberbatch & Brad Pitt take on an incredible true story

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Now here’s a film that’s definitely hoping to be in the Oscar race. 12 Years a Slave is based on a fascinating and Oscar-worthy story, and also has a great cast including Chiwetel Ejiofor, Benedict Cumberbatch, Michael Fassbender, John Ridley. Brad Pitt, Paul Dano, Sarah Paulson, Scoot McNairy, Garret Dillahunt and Alfre Woodard. And with Shame’s Steven McQueen directing, perhaps we should just give it the awards right now.

The movie is based on the true story of Solomon Northrup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a free black man in the mid-19th Century who was kidnapped in Washington and sold into slavery. He was rescued from a Louisiana cotton plantation in 1853.

It’s due in cinemas at the end of the year, but take a look at the riveting trailer below. [Read more…]

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12 Years A Slave Images Featuring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender and Benedict Cumberbatch Arrive

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Steve McQueen impressed many with Hunger and Shame, but now he’s moved onto something slightly different with 12 Years A Slave. Now the first images from the film have arrived, via USA Today, giving us a look at the likes of Chiwetel Ejiofor, Benedict Cumberbatch and Michael Fassbender in the movie.

The project is based on the true story of Solomon Northrup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a free black man in the mid-19th Century who was kidnapped in Washington and sold into slavery. He was rescued from a Louisiana cotton plantation in 1853.

McQueen is directing 12 Years a Slave from a screenplay he co-wrote with John Ridley. Brad Pitt, Paul Dano, Sarah Paulson, Scoot McNairy, Garret Dillahunt and Alfre Woodard also star. A prime Oscar-bait release is planned for the end of the year.

Take a look at the pics above and below.

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Paul Giamatti & Sarah Paulson Join 12 Years a Slave

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The cast of Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave has grown substantially, with Paul Giamatti, Sarah Paulson, Scoot McNairy, Ruth Negga, and Garret Dillahunt all signing on to star in the period drama, according to Variety.

The movie is based on the true story of Solomon Northrup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a New York free black man who was kidnapped in Washington D.C. in 1841, and sold to a Louisiana plantation. He was a slave for 12 years before being rescued. Paul Giamatti is playing Freeman, who takes possession of the slaves after they arrive in New Orleans. Sarah Paulson the jealous wife of Michael Fassbender’s character. It isn’t clear who Scoot McNairy, Ruth Negga, and Garret Dillahunt will play. Brad Pitt and Benedict Cumberbatch also star.

Steve McQueen is directing from a screenplay he co-wrote with John Ridley, which is adapted from Northrup’s 1853 non-fiction book.

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Benedict Cumberbatch Up For Steve McQueen’s 12 Years A Slave

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After Hunger and Shame, director Steve McQueen is keeping with the serious themes but going period drama for his next film, 12 Years A Slave. The movie already has Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt and Paul Dano attached to roles, and now they’ve been joined by Benedict Cumberbatch, according to Variety.

The project is based on the true story of Solomon Northrup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a free black man in the mid-19th Century who was kidnapped in Washington and sold into slavery. He was rescued from a Louisiana cotton plantation in 1853. Cumberbatch is set to play a plantation owner who forms more of a bond with Northrup after buying him and becoming impressed by his engineering skills.

McQueen is directing 12 Years a Slave from a screenplay he co-wrote with John Ridley. The shoot starts in June in New Orleans.

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Paul Dano Joins Steve McQueen’s Twelve Years A Slave

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Steven McQueen is going from sex addiction in Shame to slavery in 12 Years A Slave. He’s already got Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt and Chiwetel Ejiofor signed up to star, and now Deadline reports that Little Miss Sunshine and There Will Be Blood’s Paul Dano has joined him.

The project is based on the true story of Solomon Northrup (Chiwetel Ejiofor), a free black man in the mid-19th Century who was kidnapped in Washington and sold into slavery. He was rescued from a Louisiana cotton plantation in 1853. Dano will be play one of the slave owners who beats the lead character unmercifully

McQueen is directing 12 Years a Slave from a screenplay he co-wrote with John Ridley.

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Shame (Blu-ray)

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A man is on a subway train and notices a beautiful woman sitting opposite. Their eyes meet, and each smiles at the other. When the train gets to her stop, she stands up. The man stands too, coming up behind her where their hands brush and a jolt of electricity passes between them. He follows her off the train but in the jumble of people loses her. In most films this would be the start of a great love story – two lost souls destined to find each other again. However even in the first few minutes it’s clear Shame will not be that kind of story, signalling right at the beginning that the Hollywood idea of sex and romance isn’t real. [Read more…]

Shame – Q&A with Michael Fassbender

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Just before the release of Shame, Michael Fassbender took part in a special post-screening Q&A, filmed at the Hackney Picturehouse and beamed to cinemas around the UK. If you missed out on the live broadcast, it’s now been posted online, with Fassbender talking for half an hour about the film and his role in it. As he’s been much praised and admired for playing a sex addict in the film, he’s got some interesting things to say, so the Q&A is well worth a watch.

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