There are a lot of bloggers who dream of writing a movie, but few who actually manage it, especially teaming up with the producer of Paranormal Activity and the director of The Exorcism Of Emily Rose. However that’s what’s C. Robert Cargill has done. After writing for the likes of AintItCool, Cargill got together with Scott Derrickson to write Sinister, which stars Ethan Hawke and hits cinemas today. You can read our review of the film here. We caught up with Cargill to find out a bit more. [Read more…]
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Adele’s Skyfall Theme Song – Take a listen to the chanteuse’s full track
The full version of Adele’s theme song for the upcoming Bond movie Skyfall has arrived. It’s a very good track, which feels modern and yet harks back to classic 007, with lots of strings and a feel that will fit well with the series’ traditional elaborate title sequences. The don’t have that sequence yet, so you’ll have to head to cinemas on October 26th to get a look at those. In the film, Daniel Craig returns as James Bond, helping M after ghosts from her past return.
Oliver Hermanus Interview: Chatting With The Director Of Beauty
Beauty, or Skoonheid as it’s known in its native South Africa, takes a dark look at how mentally scarring sexual repression can be, and does so in an excellently compelling and disturbing way (you can read our review here).
After winning the Queer Palm Award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2011 and being shortlisted as the South African entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards, Beauty will be released on DVD in the UK on October 8th.
We got to catch up with the writer and director of the film, Oliver Hermanus, to find out his thoughts of the film, his inspiration and what he will be getting up to next in the world of film. [Read more…]
Crush Of The Day: Logan Lerman
Perks Of Being A Wallflower hits UK cinemas today, giving us all a good excuse to go see quite how cute 20-year-old Logan Lerman is in the lead role. In the film Lerman plays Charlie, an endearing and naive outsider, coping with first love (Emma Watson), the suicide of his best friend, and his own mental illness, while struggling to find a group of people with whom he belongs. The film also stars queer actor Ezra Miller as Charlie’s friend (and Watson’s character’s stepbrother) Patrick.
While he may be only 20, Lerman is already a bit of an industry veteran, having made his film debut playing Mel Gibson’s youngest son in The Patriot back in 2000. Since then he’s appeared in What Women Want (that time as a younger version of Mel Gibson’s character), The Butterfly Effect, The Number 23 and 3:10 To Yuma. However he came to most people’s attention playing the title role in Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief.
Following that breakout role he’s appeared The Three Musketeers and now Perks Of Being A Wallflower. He returns to the role of Percy Jackson next year in Sea Of Monsters.
Click on the pics below for larger versions and enjoy Logan’s boy-next-door cuteness. [Read more…]
Giving Thanks: Russell T. Davies
When we see gay people appear on our television screens many of us may feel a sense of pride or achievement just because we are being represented on television. In all fairness this sense of pride or achievement may not be as strong as it was 10 or 15 years ago, as we now see gay people in all walks of life and we are no longer considered a taboo in the British media, or by a vast number of those in society.
But what we have to ask ourselves is how did this happen? Yes there have been people campaigning for years to allow gay people to have the same rights as straight people, and they fought the battles in courts and in parliament and helped us achieve equality in the workplace, schools and many other areas of our lives where we were once discriminated.
But the mass media, television, film, music also had a significant impact as many believe what they see on TV, and come to find what they are shown to be the norm. So how did we get to have gay characters spring up in film and television? Well that credit has to be given to those behind the scenes.
Over the last few decades countless writers and producers have helped gay men and women make their way onto our screens, and in Britain one of the most well known to do this is Russell .T Davies.
We all know Russell for his revival of the hit Sci-Fi programme Doctor Who and its subsequent spin off shows Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures, and even with these shows he’s managed to incorporate LGBT characters in the shape of Captain Jack Harkness the well known bisexual who is played by openly gay actor John Barrowman.
But obviously this probably wouldn’t have been possible if it hadn’t been for his breakout television show Queer as Folk, which centred on gay men living in Manchester. The show broke boundaries and helped gay men get the representation on television that was needed.
However his contributions to the LGBT community on television didn’t just start on Queer as Folk. Whilst working on children’s television show Children’s Ward he wrote a script that challenged the assumption that only gay people could contract HIV, when he featured a teenage boy who had been infected with the virus due to a blood transfusion. And he even incorporated gay characters in other programmes he worked on, such as a lesbian vicar in the late night soap Revelations.
So whilst we are sat watching television and see these gay characters walking around on our television sets, just take a moment to think about the great people working behind the scenes who have helped push us into the mainstream media and into most people’s viewing schedules.
Apropos Of Nothing: Zac Efron & Elmo Teach Us Patience
Sesame Street is one of the few shows that can probably have any guest star it wants. Nearly everyone who’s anyone has popped up on it over the years, and now it’s Zac Efron’s turn, who wants to teach us all about patience. Personally I’ll take any lesson Zac wants to teach me.
Crush Of The Day: Armie Hammer
I don’t know whether to love of loathe Armie Hammer. Not only is he blessed with a gorgeous face on a strapping, 6ft 4in body (which he certainly takes care of), but he’s also an extremely good actor. Not only that, but he was born into the fabulously wealthy Hammer family – his great-grandfather and namesake was Armand Hammer, founder of Occidental Petroleum (that said he also has some family links he probably doesn’t boast about as much, as his great-great-grandfather, Julius Hammer, is thought to have founded the Communist Party in New York).
His rise as a bona fide movie star is proof, in essence, that the world is not a fair place.
He first came to prominence playing the Winklevoss twins in The Social Network, although by that time Gossip Girl and Reaper fans would already have been aware of him. Since then his star has continued to rise as Clyde Tolson in J. Edgar and as Prince Alcott in Mirror Mirror. Next summer he gets his biggest role yet, taking the title part in the Lone Ranger.
He may not have any releases at the moment, but I couldn’t resist making him my Crush Of The Day, simply because he’s so purdy. Click on the pics below for larger versions and enjoy the gratuitous handsomeness. Oh, and if you want some more pics and a trailer featuring Armie Hammer with his shirt off, click here. [Read more…]
Crush Of The Day: Chord Overstreet Photographed by Davis Factor
Glee fans will know who Chord Overstreet is, even if he’s not as well known to the rest of the world. He gave the all-singing show a big injection of prettiness when he joined in the show’s second season. While Chord is a bit to all-American boy for some, he’s certainly looking good in these photos, taken by David Factor.
The blond hottie will be back as sexy Sam for Season 4 of Glee, and we can only hope he’s even more shirtless this year than he has been for the last couple – and perhaps does some wrestling in their undies with Darren Criss’ Blaine (although I admit that’s probably asking a bit too much). [Read more…]
Crush Of The Day: Stephen Amell
I have to say that I wasn’t that interested in the TV show Arrow, and then I saw the poster above, and suddenly my interest was piqued. Who knows why?
Stephen Amell is quite the hottie, and he’s also not averse to playing guy. Indeed his first screen role was playing a spinning instructor in the US version of Queer As Folk. He also popped up as Adam in a couple of episodes of the uber-gay vampire series, Dante’s Cover.
Since then he’s appeared in the likes of Rent-A-Goalie, CSI: Miami, NCIS: Los Angeles, Vampire Diaries, 90210 and New Girl, although he’s probably most recognisable from his recurring roles as Jason in Hung, Scott Becker in Private Practice and Nick in Heartland.
Now he’s got the title role in Arrow, playing Oliver Queen (who despite the name isn’t gay), aka the comic book her, Green Arrow. Whether the series will succeed is yet to be seen, but Amell is certainly a very sexy presence at its heart. The show starts in both the US and the UK in October.
But if you need to see a bit more of Stephen before then – including a few revealing shots of him in Hung – click below and get larger versions of the pics in our gallery. [Read more…]
Why Are There So Few Documentaries About The AIDS Crisis In Britain?
The HIV/AIDS crisis is something that everyone from all different walks of life has heard of. From television, book and films to magazine articles, everyone has a pretty good understanding of what happened during the 1980s.
For gay people especially, the crisis itself is now deeply rooted into our consciousness, whether we were there during the 80s or not. We’ve heard about the people who died, those who fought for funding to try and find a cure and/or proper treatment, and everyone else in between who struggled long and hard to help people who have been diagnosed with the virus, as well as the families of the people who lost their lives due to it.
It’s even deeply rooted into our minds when it comes to sex, as we all now know the importance of safe sex and what it could mean if that one time we weren’t safe, we became unlucky.
But for us Brits a lot of the information we get is from our American counterparts and about what happened over there during the 1980s. For example, in 2011 the documentary We Were Here looked at the AIDS crisis in San Francisco and interviewed a number of people who were there and experienced what happened.
By doing so it became the first documentary to take a deep look at what happened and the impact it had on the people living in San Francisco and how they responded to it. Today How To Survive A Plague opens in select US theatres, which looks at the crisis and the early days of the activist groups ACT UP (AIDS Coalition To Unleash Power) and TAG (Treatment Action Group). Those two looks at AIDS in America join the likes of the Oscar winning Common Threads: Stories From The Quilt.
However there has never been a decent-scale, feature documentary (that I know of, at least) that has taken a deep look at the crisis when it hit the UK. After all, HIV/AIDS has significantly impacted on a number of people over here and it has continued to do so since the 1980s.
We’ve all seen and heard about the safe sex advertising campaigns complete with icebergs, headstones and a deeply eerie narration from John Hurt, so we know it was just as bad over here. But do we know anything further than this campaign?
AIDS is still a problem now, with HIV infection rates remaining quite high and rising over recent years. It is definitely still an issue and we need to see and hear more about what actually happened to people living in the UK who were affected by HIV/AIDS during the early days of the disease, whether it was their friends, family or themselves that were affected by it, and whether it was slightly different or worse here than what people felt in other areas of the world. It is slightly ridiculous that for many British people, their knowledge of the AIDS crisis in the US is far greater than on what happened in the UK. Documentaries like these aren’t just about remembering our history, but also potent reminders of a disease that may not be the absolute killer it once was, but which we still need to be vigilant about.
Considering the success of the film We Were Here and the positive reaction it received, it would be interesting and helpful to see the effect a UK version had, told from a viewpoint that’s different from what we’ve already heard from over the pond.
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