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What’s The T? Trailer – Exploring the lives of five transgender women

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It’s been a good week for the transgender community, helped enormously by Laverne Cox making the cover of Time magazine. It’s a good opportunity then to watch the official trailer for the documentary What’s The T?, which you can see right here.

The doc, “explores the challenges, successes and lives of five transgender women”. The trailer suggests it’s going to be a fascinating look at these women and the challenges they face in the modern world. The film has had a very successful run at film festivals around the world.

If you’re in the US, you can watch the full documentary on Hulu from June 24th, but unfortunately it’s not clear when those in the rest of the world might get to see it. Hopefully it won’t be too long. We’ll keep our fingers crossed. [Read more…]

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The Wonderful Laverne Cox Becomes The First Trans Person To Make The Cover Of Time

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laverne-cox-time-magazineEarlier this year there was a bit of controversy when Orange Is The New Black star Laverne Cox was given a massive thumbs up by nearly topping the Time 100 Reader Poll. However when the actual list of the 100 most influential people of the year was published by Time magazine – as decided by the editors – Cox was nowhere to be seen.

Many people were pretty upset, but now Time has decided that better than putting Cox somewhere into an arbitrary list is to make her the first transgender person ever on the cover of the magazine, accompanying an article and interview about the ‘Transgender Tipping Point’.

The interview goes deep into Cox’s journey, such as the fact that in her youth she wasn’t allowed to learn ballet, because “ballet was too gay.”

She also looks back on her childhood when she knew she wanted to be a girl, but it wasn’t until third grade that she realised she wouldn’t just somehow become one simply because that’s how she felt inside. By the time she was in sixth grade she tried to kill herself.

Luckily as she reached her teens could start exploring androgyny and her creativity that she began to find a way through.

However as she notes, there’s still a long way to go for trans people until there is proper acceptance, with part of the problem being that the stories of transgender people are often filtered through non-trans media that doesn’t really have much understanding of what it’s talking about. However with more high-profile people such as Cox and Janet Mock, as well as the fact social media has allowed trans people a voice it’s been difficult for them to get before, they are now starting to own their own stories and control them.

It is an article that’s important not just because it puts a trans person on the cover of Time, but also because the article is about Cox’s internal, emotional life and experience of being trans, not about hormones, surgery, genitals and the other things that have a tendency to distance people from thinking of trans people simply as human beings.

The cover has already sparked a lot of comment, and also saw Time editor Nancy Gibbs and GLAAD’s Tiq Milan sitting down with Ronan Farrow on MSNBC to talk about it, which you can see below.

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Nathan’s Lane’s Gay-Themed Play The Nance Will Screen At US Cinemas Nationwide

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Last year Nathan Lane starred in the Lincoln Center Theater’s production of out playwright Douglas Carter Beane’s play The Nance. Now many of those who couldn’t make it to New York will get a chance to see it as a filmed version is set to play at US cinemas beginning June 23rd.

It should screen in more than 300 movie theatres in an exclusive limited engagement courtesy of Lincoln Center and cinema advertising company Screenvision.

The Advocate says on the play, ‘Lane, a two-time Tony Award winner, stars as Chauncey Miles, a famous “nance,” which is an outrageously effeminate stock burlesque character. The play is set in 1930s New York, where the mayor has started cracking down on homosexual “deviants.” The cast, which features Jonny Orsini as Chauncey’s younger lover, also includes Jenni Barber, Andréa Burns, Cady Huffman, Mylinda Hull, Geoffrey Allen Murphy, and Lewis J. Stadlen.’

“Through this partnership with Lincoln Center, we are thrilled to offer moviegoers nationwide the chance to see one of the most original plays with a stellar cast of complex and enthralling characters,” says Screenvision’s Darryl Schaffer “We are pleased that we can offer it to our exhibitor partners and take part in extending the reach of such a great work of art.”

You can find out more about where it will be screening by clicking here. [Read more…]

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Harry Hamlin Says Playing Gay In 1982’s Making Love Helped End His Movie Career

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making-love-posterWith 1981’s Clash Of The Titans, it looked like Harry Hamlin was destined for the A-List. However he only had two more cinema roles before getting sucked back into the world of TV movies of the week. It wasn’t until he scored a major role in the TV show LA Law that he saw real success again.

So what happened? Well, according to Harry, it’s that the movie he made directly after Clash, 1982’s Making Love, saw him playing a gay man – and after that the phone stopped ringing.

While appearing on Bravo’s Watch What Happens Live, Hamlin says of Making Love, “It was way before its time…It was something that I would repeat. I would do it again today, even though there was a ruffle in my career after that, for sure.”

It was an interesting choice for a young actor at the time, as few mainstream actors would ever have accepted a gay role. Indeed, Hamlin says, ‘a lot of people turned it down’, however his agemt through he could get away with it because he was involved in a high-profile relationship with actress Ursula Andress at the time, with whom he had a son, so the thought was that nobody would think he was really gay.

However the result was that he didn’t work in features again. He’s upbeat about it though, saying “What it did is it created a transition for me between feature film to television.”

LA Law made Hamlin a household name and thanks to that role he was voted People’s Sexiest Man Alive. More recently he’s been seen in recurring roles in the likes of Shameless and Mad Men.

Making Love is about a young doctor and his wife, whose relationship is challenged by the arrival of Hamlin’s swinging artist. The Doc can’t deny his attraction to Hamlin, and soon they embark on an affair.

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Left Behind Trailer – God doesn’t like Nicolas Cage enough to Rapture him

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Many were surprised when a bigger budget remake of Left Behind was announced. While Jerry B. Jenkins and Tim LaHaye’s novel series and the early 2000s films adaptations have a following, it’s mainly amongst a particular section of the American religious right who are big into ‘The Rapture’.

Nevertheless they signed up the likes of Nicolas Cage, Chad Michael Murray and Lea Thompson for the movie, and now the trailer has arrive.

The story follows a group trying to survive in the aftermath of the Rapture, which has seen all the true Christians being spirited up to heaven, leaving everyone else behind to deal with the end of days. Cage is plays Ray Steele, a neglectful dad and pilot who finds God too late and so forms the Tribulation Force to cope with the coming carnage.=

Paul Lalonde, who wrote the original Left Behind in 2001, and John Patus, who wrote the last instalment of the earlier film series, Left Behind: World at War, came up with the screenplay. Stun legend Vic Armstrong directs.

From the trailer is seems the overly pious tone of the earlier movies has been toned down for this version, instead trying to sell it as more of a mainstream action movie with a religion bent. [Read more…]

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New The Green Inferno Trailer – Fresh look at Eli Roth’s jungle cannibal movie

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Eli Roth hasn’t directed a movie since 2007′s Hostel: Part II, as he’s spent most of his time either producing or starring in other people’s films. However now he’s coming back with The Green Inferno.

Now a new trailer ahs arrived ahead of the movie’s autumn release.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Idealistic Justine (Lorenza Izzo) joins a group of campus radicals on a mission to disrupt the illegal clear-cutting of a Peruvian jungle, which is endangering the tranquil lives of an isolated Amazonian tribe. Armed with good intentions and the power of their cellphone cameras, the group flies to Peru and seemingly succeeds in their mission. But the activists’ celebration quickly turns to tragedy when their plane crashes in the jungle — and they find themselves on the dinner menu of the very people they were trying to protect.’

If you like cannibal movies, it looks like you’re in for a treat. If you’re into political correctness you’ll probably have to look elsewhere. [Read more…]

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Adam McKay in Talks To Helm Marvel’s Ant-Man

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adam-mckayAfter last week’s shock news that Edgar Wright was stepping away from Ant-Man despite working on it since 2006 (apparently he was upset with last minute script rewrites), Marvel has been scrambling to find a replacement, partly in the hope they wouldn’t have to delay the summer 2015 opening.

Now it seems they’ve found one, as AICN and Variety reports that frequent Will Ferrell collaborator Adam McKay has been offered the job.

It’s an interesting choice, as it suggests that Marvel still hopes Ant Man will be a comedy (there had been suggestions the rewrites had stripped out a lot of the humour), although perhaps a more mainstream one that the usually quirky Edgar Wright might have been hoping for. McKay has also worked with Paul Rudd on the likes of Anchorman – so a rapport with the leading man already exists – and the director has shown he can handle action with the likes of The Other Guys.

It will be more of an effects film than anything he’s done before though, although the likes of Talladega Nights has involved SFX work. It’ll be interesting to see if they bring in Will Ferrell in some capacity, as McKay has never directed a feature-length movie without him.

The director does have plenty of other films in the works, but if he signs on for Ant Man, he’ll have to drop everything else, especially if it’s going to keep its July 17th, 2015 release date.

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Josh Brolin Will Voice Thanos In Guardians of the Galaxy & Beyond

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thanos-avengersBack at the end of The Avengers, the post-credits sequence showed us uber-villain Thanos, however since then we haven’t seen anything of him, despite the fact we’ve had Iron Man 3, Thor 2, and Captain America 2. However he’ll be back for Guardians Of The Galaxy, and now Latino Review reports that Josh Brolin will be providing his voice.

Although Guardians won’t be strongly linked into the rest of the Marvel Universe, in a recent article about James Gunn and his post-production process on Guardians of the Galaxy, it suggested that Thanos would appear on a rocket throne, leading into the movie’s big climax. Apparently Thanos will appear on-screen long enough that someone will have to step in and bring him to life (suggesting that perhaps Guardians is technically a prequel to Avengers, as Thanos was alive in that).

Thanos is a member of The Eternals, a group of god-like beings with immense power. Often referred to as ‘The Mad Titan’, Thanos has tried to wipe out earth on many occasions, using his Infinity Gauntlet, which is capable of manipulating time, space, reality and the human soul.

It’s not clear how big a role Thanos will play in the overall story arc of its Phase Two and Three movies. It is believed that The Collector, played by Benicio Del Toro in Guardians of the Galaxy, is on a mission to collect powerful mystical articles that make up the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s version of the Infinity Gauntlet.

As The Avengers suggested Thanos was involved with the events in that movie and in the comics The Avengers and Guardians Of The Galaxy have had to team up to battle him, it may be that Marvel is hoping to eventually bring all of them together for one huge battle.

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What If Trailer – Daniel Radcliffe & Zoe Kazan get an indie rom-com

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When we got a poster for What If a couple of weeks ago, we were promised the trailer was coming soon. Now it’s here, so we can get a taste for the indie rom-com, starring Daniel Radcliffe and Zoe Kazan.

The movie was filmed under the title The F Word back in autumn 2012, do it’s taken a while for us to get to this stage, but it now it’s been retitled What If, a poster has arrived and an August 1st, 2014 US release set.

Radcliffe plays Wallace, a young man who meets Chantry (Kazan) at a party where they hit it off. The problem is, Chantry has a long-term boyfriend, and the duo must navigate through a tenuous friendship (that’s the F word), while keeping their feelings at bay.

Take a look at the trailer below. [Read more…]

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Kill the Messenger Trailer – Jeremy Renner investigates the CIA’s connection to drugs

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A few months ago we got the first pictures from Kill The Messenger, but it’s taken a while for us to get a trailer. It’s a movie that looks like it’ll allow Renner to show off his acting chops, along with plenty of thriller tension.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Two-time Academy Award nominee Jeremy Renner (“The Bourne Legacy”) leads an all-star cast in a dramatic thriller based on the remarkable true story of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Gary Webb. Webb stumbles onto a story which leads to the shady origins of the men who started the crack epidemic on the nation’s streets…and further alleges that the CIA was aware of major dealers who were smuggling cocaine into the U.S., and using the profits to arm rebels fighting in Nicaragua. Despite warnings from drug kingpins and CIA operatives to stop his investigation, Webb keeps digging to uncover a conspiracy with explosive implications. His journey takes him from the prisons of California to the villages of Nicaragua to the highest corridors of power in Washington, D.C. – and draws the kind of attention that threatens not just his career, but his family and his life.’

It’ll be interesting to see how the film ends, as the true story doesn’t have a particularly happy ending.

The movie will be out this autumn, when Renner may well be going after his third Oscar nomination. [Read more…]

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