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

GENERAL MOVIE NEWS

General movie news courtesy of Movie Muser (www.moviemuser.co.uk)

Jared Leto Wins Oscar For Playing Trans Character, While Gravity Takes The Most Prizes

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After months of speculation and a seemingly endless run-up, the Oscars have finally happened, with Gravity taking the most gongs with seven. It dominated the technical categories including Editing, Cinematography, Sound Editing, Sound Mixing, Score and, not surprisingly, Visual Effects. However it also took Best Director for Alfonso Cuaron, marking just what an achievement the Academy thought the film was.

However the movie didn’t take the Best Picture Oscar, as that went to 12 Years A Slave, which also took Best Supporting Actress for Lupita Nyong’o and Best Adapted Screenplay. As expected Dallas Buyers Club took both of the actor awards, with Matthew McConaughey winning Best Actor and Jared Leto taking Best Supporting Actor for playing trans character Rayon. Both McConaughey and Leto paid tribute to those who have battled or died from AIDS, as well as those who’ve struggled to be accepted as themselves.

More uncertain was Best Actress. While Cate Blanchett had been the frontrunner, the controversy over Woody Allen threw a spanner in the works. She nevertheless won the award for Blue Jasmine.

Although host Ellen Denegeres (who certainly did a good job) probably scored the best win of the night, with the star-packed photo above.

Take a look below for the complete list of winners.

BEST PICTURE
Winner: 12 Years a Slave

American Hustle
Captain Phillips
Dallas Buyers Club
Gravity
Her
Nebraska
Philomena
The Wolf of Wall Street

BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Winner: Matthew McConaughey – Dallas Buyers Club

Christian Bale – American Hustle
Bruce Dern – Nebraska
Leonardo DiCaprio – The Wolf of Wall Street
Chiwetel Ejiofor – 12 Years a Slave

BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Cate Blanchett – Blue Jasmine

Amy Adams – American Hustle
Sandra Bullock – Gravity
Judi Dench – Philomena
Meryl Streep – August: Osage County

BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Winner: Jared Leto – Dallas Buyers Club

Barkhad Abdi – Captain Phillips
Bradley Cooper – American Hustle
Michael Fassbender – 12 Years a Slave
Jonah Hill – The Wolf of Wall Street

BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Winner: Lupita Nyong’o – 12 Years a Slave

Sally Hawkins – Blue Jasmine
Jennifer Lawrence – American Hustle
Julia Roberts – August: Osage County
June Squibb – Nebraska

BEST DIRECTOR
Winner: Alfonso Cuarón – Gravity

Steve McQueen – 12 Years a Slave
Alexander Payne – Nebraska
David O. Russell – American Hustle
Martin Scorsese – The Wolf of Wall Street

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Winner: Her – Spike Jonze

American Hustle – David O. Russell and Eric Singer
Blue Jasmine – Woody Allen
Dallas Buyers Club – Craig Borten and Melissa Wallack
Nebraska – Bob Nelson

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Winner: 12 Years a Slave – John Ridley

Before Midnight – Julie Delpy, Ethan Hawke and Richard Linklater
Captain Phillips – Billy Ray
Philomena – Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope
The Wolf of Wall Street – Terence Winter

BEST ORIGINAL SONG
“Let It Go” from Frozen – Music and Lyric by Robert Lopez, Kristen Anderson-Lopez

“Happy” from Despicable Me 2 – Music and Lyrics by Pharrell Williams
“The Moon Song” from Her – Music by Karen O, Lyrics by Karen O and Spike Jonze
“Ordinary Love” from Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom – Music by Paul Hewson, Dave Evans, Larry Clayton and Larry Mullen, Lyrics by Paul Hewson

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Winner: Gravity – Steven Price

The Book Thief – John Williams
Her – William Butler and Owen Pallett
Philomena – Alexandre Desplat
Saving Mr. Banks – Thomas Newman

BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Winner: The Great Gatsby – Catherine Martin & Beverly Dunn

American Hustle – Judy Becker & Heather Loeffle
Gravity – Andy Nicholson & Rosie Goodwin
Her – K.K. Barrett & Gene Serdena
12 Years a Slave – Adam Stochausen & Alice Baker

BEST EDITING
Gravity – Alfonso Cuarón and Mark Sanger

American Hustle – Jay Cassidy, Crispin Struthers and Alan Baumgarten
Captain Phillips – Christopher Rouse
Dallas Buyers Club – John McMurphy and Martin Pensa12 Years a Slave – Joe Walker

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Winner: Gravity – Emmanuel Lubezki

The Grandmaster – Philippe LeSourd
Inside Llewyn Davis – Bruno Delbonnel
Nebraska – Phedon Papamichael
Prisoners – Roger Deakins

BEST SOUND EDITING
Winner: Gravity – Glenn Freemantle

All Is Lost – Steve Boeddeker and Richard Hymns
Captain Phillips – Oliver Tarney
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug – Brent Burge
Lone Survivor – Wylie Stateman

BEST SOUND MIXING
Winner: Gravity – Skip Lievsay, Niv Adiri, Christopher Benstead and Chris Munro

Captain Phillips – Chris Burdon, Mark Taylor, Mike Prestwood Smith and Chris Munro
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug – Christopher Boyes, Michael Semanick and Tony Johnson
Inside Llewyn Davis – Skip Lievsay
Lone Survivor – Andy Koyama, Beau Borders and David Brownlow

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Winner: Italy, The Great Beauty, Paolo Sorrentino, director

Belgium, The Broken Circle Breakdown, Felix Van Groeningen, director
Cambodia, The Missing Picture, Rithy Panh, director
Denmark, The Hunt, Thomas Vinterberg, director
Palestine, Omar, Hany Abu-Assad, director

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
Winner: 20 Feet from Stardom – Morgan Neville

The Act of Killing – Joshua Oppenheimer
Cutie and the Boxer – Zachary Heinzerling
Dirty Wars – Rick Rowley
The Square – Jehane Noujaim

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM
Winner: The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life, Malcolm Clarke

CaveDigger, Jeffrey Karoff
Facing Fear, Jason Cohen
Karama Has No Walls, Sara Ishaq
Prison Terminal: The Last Days of Private Jack Hall, Edgar Barens

BEST LIVE-ACTION SHORT FILM
Winner: Helium, Anders Walter, director, and Kim Magnusson, producer (M & M Productions)

Aquel No Era Yo (That Wasn’t Me), Esteban Crespo, director (Producciones Africanauan)
“Avant Que De Tout Perdre (Just Before Losing Everything),” Xavier Legrand, director, and Alexandre Gavras, producer (KG Productions)
“Pitääö Mun Kaikki Hoitaa? (Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?),” Selma Vilhunen, director, and Kirsikka Saari, screenwriter (Tuffi Films)
The Voorman Problem, Mark Gill, director, and Baldwin Li, producer (Honlodge Productions)

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Winner: Gravity – Tim Webber, Chris Lawrence, Dave Shirk and Neil Corbould

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug – Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton and Eric Reynolds
Iron Man 3 – Christopher Townsend, Guy Williams, Erik Nash and Dan Sudick
The Lone Ranger – Tim Alexander, Gary Brozenich, Edson Williams and John Frazier
Star Trek Into Darkness – Roger Guyett, Patrick Tubach, Ben Grossmann and Burt Dalton

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Winner: Frozen

The Croods
Despicable Me 2
Ernest & Celestine
The Wind Rises

BEST ANNIMATED SHORT FILM
Winner: Mr. Hublot, Laurent Witz, director, and Alexandre Espigares, co-director (Zeilt Productions)

Feral, Daniel Sousa, director, and Dan Golden, music and sound design (Daniel Sousa)
Get a Horse, Lauren MacMullan, director, and Dorothy McKim, producer (Walt Disney Feature Animation)
Possessions, Shuhei Morita, director (Sunrise Inc.)
Room on the Broom, Max Lang and Jan Lachauer, directors (Magic Light Pictures)

BEST MAKEUP AND HAIRSTYLING
Winner: Dallas Buyers Club – Adruitha Lee and Robin Mathews

Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa – Stephen Prouty
The Lone Ranger – Joel Harlow and Gloria Pasqua-Casny

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Winner: The Great Gatsby – Catherine Martin

American Hustle – Michael Wilkinson
The Grandmaster – William Chang Suk Ping
The Invisible Woman – Michael O’Connor
12 Years a Slave – Patricia Norris

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First Look At Grant Gustin In Costume As The Flash

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Fans of superhero series Arrow have already seen Grant Gustin as Barry Allen, as he’s popped up in the show, only to have had a terrible accident. However the plan is that he’ll get his own series as The Flash, after a couple more appearances in Arrow.

Now we can get a look at the fledgling superhero, as an image has been released of Gustin donning the famous Flash mask. He’s looking pretty cool, even if I’m not entirely sure about the need for a leather chin.

We should get to see him as Barry Allen in couple more episodes of this season of Arrow, although while the original plan had been to get him in the red suit by the end of his appearances in that show, it now appears we’ll have to wait for the autumn, when the first episode of a stand alone Flash series is due to air.

Before now Gustin was best known as Glee’s Sebastian, who tried to steal Blane from Kurt. However it looks like he’ll be straight as The Flash.

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New The Double Trailer – Jesse Eisenberg is getting anxious in Richard Ayoade’s film

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A new US trailer and a UK quad poster for The Double have been released, which you can see right here. It’s an interesting look at Richard Ayoade’s film, which is based on a story Fyodor Dostoevsky, but as this trailer shows, has a fair dose of humour.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Simon (Jesse Eisenberg) is a timid man, scratching out an isolated existence in an indifferent world. He is overlooked at work, scorned by his mother, and ignored by the woman of his dreams, Hannah, played by Mia Wasikowska. He feels powerless to change any of these things. The arrival of a new co-worker, James, serves to upset the balance. James is both Simon’s exact physical double and his opposite – confident, charismatic and good with women. To Simon’s horror, James slowly starts taking over his life.’

The movie’s due out in the UK on April 4th. [Read more…]

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Chris Evans Gets A New Captain America: The Winter Soldier Poster

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A few days ago we had a character poster for Anthony Mackie’s Falcon, and now Chris Evans, aka Steve Rogers, aka Captain America gets a new one for Captain America: The Winter Soldier. And he’s looking pretty heroic (even if the Photoshop fairies have perhaps been a little over-zealous).

There’s also a little info on the character that Marvel released: ‘After a top secret Super-Soldier program transformed Steve Rogers into the powerful and heroic Captain America, his amazing WWII exploits made him a living legend, but after awakening in present day following being frozen in ice for decades, Steve found himself alone in a modern world that he hardly recognized. Nevertheless, he quickly suited up as Captain America to help The Avengers defend Earth against Loki’s treachery. After the cataclysmic events in New York with The Avengers team, Steve is living a quiet life in Washington, D.C., struggling to adjust to his new life, when he is drawn into a web of intrigue and danger to unmask a powerful but shadowy enemy that threatens to put the world at risk.’

Here’s the film’s synopsis: ‘After the cataclysmic events in New York with The Avengers, Marvel’s “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” finds Steve Rogers, aka Captain America, living quietly in Washington, D.C. and trying to adjust to the modern world. But when a S.H.I.E.L.D. colleague comes under attack, Steve becomes embroiled in a web of intrigue that threatens to put the world at risk. Joining forces with the Black Widow, Captain America struggles to expose the ever-widening conspiracy while fighting off professional assassins sent to silence him at every turn. When the full scope of the villainous plot is revealed, Captain America and the Black Widow enlist the help of a new ally, the Falcon. However, they soon find themselves up against an unexpected and formidable enemy—the Winter Soldier.

‘Based on the ever-popular Marvel comic book series, first published in 1941, Marvel’s “Captain America: The Winter Soldier” is produced by Kevin Feige, directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, from a screenplay by Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely, and stars Chris Evans, Scarlett Johansson, Sebastian Stan, Anthony Mackie, Cobie Smulders, Frank Grillo, Emily VanCamp and Hayley Atwell, with Robert Redford as Alexander Pierce and Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury.’

It’s out in the UK on March 26th, 2014 and a week later in the US.

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Do Andy & Lana Wachowski Have A New Matrix Trilogy In The Works?

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matrix-posterAt the moment we’d file this in the drawer marked ‘Probably a load of rubbish’, but it’s an intriguing possibility so it’s worth reporting anyway. Latino Review suggests that Andy and Lana Wachowski are developing a new Matrix trilogy, with Warner Bros. eyeing a 2017 release for the first of the new films.

The rumour is that the filmmakers have already turned in outlines and treatments to the studio, and that Warner is keen to sign up for more Matrix movie, as they want to find a big blockbuster franchise that’s not reliant on superhero characters. Warner supposedly wants the first movie by 2017 so it can compete against the likes of Star Wars: Episode VIII and Avatar 3. While there’s a chance we’ll have Warner’s Justice League by then, that’s reliant on the Batman Vs Superman doing well.

There’s not much info on what the new trilogy will be about, although it’s suggested one of the early outlines explored how The Matrix was first created. However the direction the story will go is apparently still up in the air. It’s also not known if any of the original cast members will return or if the Wachowskis will direct or just oversee development of the films.

As we said, at the moment this could all be nonsense, but it’s not the first time more Matrix movies have been mooted, and it is known Warner is keen of finding movies from its back catalogue it can rejuvenate or remake in the hope of creating fresh franchises.

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Vincent D’Onofrio & Irrfan Khan Up For Jurassic World

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vincent-donofrioDirector Colin Trevorrow is pulling together his cast for Jurassic World with Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Ty Simpkins and Nick Robinson already onboard, and now Deadline reports they’ve been joined by Vincent D’Onofrio and Irffan Khan.

As with all the other actors, there’s no info on exactly who the new cast members will play, although D’Onofrio will apparently be the villain. Khan has been courted for some time – his name was first mentioned in November 2013 – but it’s only now that he’s officially signed up.

There’s been no official word on the plot either, although the film is believed to be set in a fully functioning dinosaur theme park on Isla Nublar, where the first Jurassic Park took place. The film is due in cinemas July 2015.

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Diederik Van Rooijen Tapped For The Birds Remake

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birds-1963-Tippi-HedrenFor many years there’s been talk of a remake of The Birds, but it’s been trapped in development hell to the point most people had assumed the whole idea had been given up on. However it turns out it’s alive as Universal Pictures and Platinum Dunes have signed up Dutch director Diederik Van Rooijen to helm, according to THR.

Van Rooijen is best known for directing films such as Taped, Daylight, Stella’s Oorlog and Bollywood Hero.

Alfred Hitchcock’s 1963 classic follows Tippi Hedren’s Melanie Daniels, who heads from San Francisco to a small town in Northern California. Things soon get strange when for no apparent reason all the birds begins to attack, with nature seeming to want to take over.

The main problem with the remake seems to have been getting the script right – after all Hitchcock’s movie is rather bizarre, and without his touch it’s going to be difficult for the whole thing not to seem stupid. The likes os Paul Harris Boardman, Scott Derrickson, Juliet Snowden, Stiles White and Leslie Dixon have all worked on the screenplay. It’s not known when it might shoot.

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The Final Member Trailer – The race to be the first human exhibit in the world’s only penis museum

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I know a couple of gay guys who think their penis is so awesome it should be showcased in a museum (and if you think similarly, please be aware that you are probably delusional), but there is only one Penis Museum in the world, in Iceland, and at the moment it’s lacking a human member.

The documentary The Final Member takes a look at the competition to complete the museum’s collection and the representative of human male genitalia alongside naughty bits from hundreds of other mammalian species. And it is a race, as the doc follows two men who’ve lined up for the honour – one who’s agreed to leave his penis to the museum when he dies, and an American who’s so keen to donate, he’s willing to have his bits removed while he’s still alive. And in case you were wondering, yes, the latter guy is a bit odd.

You can take a look at the trailer for the unusual documentary above. The doc is in US cinemas & on VOD on April 18th from Drafthouse Films [Read more…]

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Muppets Most Wanted Music Trailer – Kermit & co. are doing a sequel

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It seems we’ve been waiting ages for Muppets Most Wanted, but now it’s close to release and to celebrate that Disney has released a new trailer, featuring a song all about doing a sequel. It’s a lot of fun, and the song must have been written a long time ago, as it suggests it was penned back when the film was still called The Muppets… Again!

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Following on from 2011’s smash-hit The Muppets, all your favourite characters are back in a hilarious all-new spy thriller adventure in Disney’s MUPPETS MOST WANTED, hitting cinemas March 28th, 2014. Packed with celebrity cameos and featuring star turns from Ricky Gervais, Tiny Fey and Ty Burrell, MUPPETS MOST WANTED takes the entire Muppets gang on a global tour, including stops in Berlin, Madrid, Dublin and London. But mayhem follows them overseas as they find themselves unwittingly entangled in an international crime caper headed by Constantine, the World’s Number One Criminal, and dead-ringer for Kermit.

‘Disney’s MUPPETS MOST WANTED is directed by James Bobin and produced by David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman. Bobin co-wrote the screenplay with Nicholas Stoller, who is also executive producer with John G. Scotti. Featuring music from Academy Award®-winning songwriter Bret McKenzie, MUPPETS MOST WANTED comes to UK cinemas March 28, 2014.’ It’ll be out a week earlier in the US. [Read more…]

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Patrick Wilson Joins Marvel’s Ant-Man In An Unknown Role

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patrick-wilsonAfter Watchmen Patrick Wilson is returning to the world of superheroes, this time stepping into Marvel’s universe for Ant-Man. He has landed the last major role in the movie, according to Deadline, although it hasn’t been revealed who Wilson will play.

Michael Douglas and Paul Rudd are starring as Hank Pym and Scott Lang, the original Ant-man and the guy who ends up becoming his successor. It’s believed the plot starts in the 1960s, where Hank Pym, who has invented technology that can shrink him to a tiny size, is working as a spy fighting Communism for the government. The story then shifts to the present day, where Michael Douglas is an older Hank Pym. It’s been suggested Paul Rudd’s Scott Lang initially steals Pym’s tech, but eventually starts to work with him and become the Ant-man.

Michael Pena is also attached, playing a villain named Castillo, while Evangeline Lilly is in talks to play the female lead. He character is said to be Hank Pym’s daughter and the love interest of Scott Lang. How Patrick Wilson will fit into all this isn’t known.

Edgar Wright is directing from a script he co-wrote alongside Joe Cornish, with shooting set to begin in April.

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