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

New Trumbo Trailer – Bryan Cranston gets Blacklisted by Hollywood

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Trumbo-QuadTrumbo is getting a London Film Festival premiere on Thursday, and so ahead of that a new trailer and poster have been released, which you can see above and below.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘The successful career of 1940s screenwriter Dalton Trumbo (Bryan Cranston) comes to a crushing end when he and other Hollywood figures are blacklisted for their political beliefs. TRUMBO (directed by Jay Roach) tells the story of his fight against the U.S. government and studio bosses in a war over words and freedom, which entangled everyone in Hollywood from Hedda Hopper (Helen Mirren) and John Wayne to Kirk Douglas and Otto Preminger.’

Trumbo arrives in UK cinemas on February 5th, 2016. [Read more…]

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Ellen Page To Lead The Cast Of The Planned Flatliners Remake

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ellen-pageFor a while now Neils Arden Oplev, who directed the original Scandinavian adaptation of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, has been attached to helm a new version of Joel Schumacher’s 1990 movie Flatliners.

Now he’s starting to find his cast, with Variety reporting that Ellen Page is in talks to star. Julia Roberts, Kiefer Sutherland and Kevin Bacon as a group of medical students interested in what happens at the point of death. They start secrets experiments where they stop each others hearts, but revive them before it’s too later. However once they get a taste of what’s on the other side, they want longer and longer there – and they may be bringing something back.

There’s no news on the exact character than X-Men and Freeheld star Ellen Page will play, but presumably she’ll be a medical student.

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F. Gary Gray Up To Direct Fast & Furious 8 & Black Panther

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f-gary-grayIt seems The Italian Job and Straight Outta Compton director F. Gary Gray s the man of the moment, as THR reports that he’s entered exclusive negotiations to helm Fast & Furious 8, while Variety adds that he’s also in the running to direct Marvel’s Black Panther.

Universal have been busy looking for a Furious 8 director ever since James Wan decided he didn’t want to helm. With an April 2017 release set they didn’t have much time, and hot on the heels of reports that they’d narrowed it down to a few name came reports of negotiations officially beginning with Gray.

Vin Diesel also confirmed it, posting a picture of him meeting Gray – an important part of the process, as Vin has to approve the director for him to get the job.

While the Black Panther news is less certain, it appear Gray is high up the list of potential directors. Selma‘s Ava DuVernay was previously attached to that one, but she has since left. However Gray may have difficulty making both, as with Black Panther set for summer 2018, he’d have to jump from one film to the other pretty quickly.

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Sam Smith’s Writing’s On The Wall Spectre Music Video Debuts

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sam-smith-writings-on-the-wallWriting’s On The Wall has already become the first Bond theme to score a number 1 of the UK music charts, but its only now that Sam Smith’s tune has got a music video.

As you’d expect for the theme song from a 007 movie, it’s a pretty cool and stylish video, giving plenty of hints at what we might expect from Spectre – which suggests it might not be the jolliest of films.

Sam Smith enlisted renowned music video director and long-term collaborator Luke Monaghan to direct the video. Shot in various locations throughout Rome, the video for Writing’s On The Wall opens with a poignant scene of Union Jack clad coffins and goes on to feature various shots of Smith filmed in the same locations as Spectre. The video is interspersed with extracts from the Spectre film including a love scene between Bond (Daniel Craig) and Lucia (Monica Bellucci), the beautiful and forbidden widow of an infamous criminal.

Take a look below. [Read more…]

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Seth Grahame-Smith May Direct Ezra Miller In The Flash

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Seth-Grahame-SmithDC has extremely ambitious plans to create a comic book movie universe to rival Marvel’s, with the seeds being sown with next year’s Batman v Superman. That will lead into all sorts of film running up to a full-on Justice League film and beyond.

One of those movies may have find its director, as THR reports that Pride & Prejudice & Zombies, Dark Shadows and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter writer Seth Grahame-Smith is in talks to helm The Flash.

Ezra Miller is set to play the character on the big screen (Grant Gustin will continue to play the superhero on the small screen), which will be introduced in next year’s Barman V Superman, will them be part of the two-part Justice League movie in 2017 and 2019, while his standalone film will come in the middle, in 2018.

It would be Graham-Smith’s first movie as a director, so it’s a big film to make your debut with, although he has extensive credits as both a writer and producer. He’s also currently attached to script project such as The Lego Batman Movie, a Gremlins reboot and new Looney Tunes film (all for Warner Bros.).

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I Am The Queen (US DVD/VoD Review)

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Set in Chicago’s Humboldt Park neighbourhood, I Am The Queen follows three transgender contestants taking part in an annual drag/trans beauty pageant held for those of Puerto Rican heritage. To be honest though, the Beauty Pageant is more of a framing device for a look into the lives of Jolizza, Julissa and Bianca, three young transgender women and the difficulties they face.

The documentary reveals a complex picture, ensuring that it goes beyond the women themselves to see how their transition has affected their parents and family. It certainly doesn’t make things look easy, especially for women of their age, as their gender identity comes on top of the typical teenage/young adult emotions and confusion, which unsurprisingly ensures they don’t always make the best choices. Likewise, it’s a time when they need the support of their family the most, but that is a challenge for all of them to a greater or lesser extent. [Read more…]

Dressed As A Girl (Cinema Review)

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There are plenty of different opinions out there about drag queens, from those that think it’s a valuable part of the LGBT heritage or a harmless bit of fun, to those who feel it is a mockery of women and trans people, and plays into harmful stereotypes.

Dressed As A Girl should challenge a lot of people’s ideas of the world of drag – whether they’re positive, negative or indifferent – taking us into the lives of several members of the London East End alternative drag scene. Although there is a sort-of narration and interviews with the participants, there’s generally a bit of a cinema verité feel, with the camera following the performers around (it was filmed across six years) and allowing the viewer to contemplate what’s going on.

It’s a veritable bunch of eccentrics, from veterans such as Jonny Woo and John Sizzle, to up and comers like Scottee. There’s also Holestar, a drag performer who isn’t just dressed as a girl, as she was born one, and Amber, who has gone from the drag scene to transitioning to live as a woman full time. [Read more…]

Mad Max: Fury Road (Blu-ray Review)

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I think it’s fair to say that a lot of people thought Mad Max: Fury Road was cursed to fail. Some didn’t think it should have been made at all, as they were worried it would sully the name of the originally Mel Gibson trilogy. However, George Miller wanted to make it, but it took years to get all the pieces together and Warner to give it the greenlight. Then, when it was finally ready to shoot, a massive storm blew most of the set away.

That cause a year long delay and a move to a different country. After it was eventually filmed, it took more than two years to get it into cinemas, with some wondering whether that due to the whole thing being a giant mess. However, when it finally arrived a lot of people had to admit they’d misjudged the film, as it’s a really good action movie that certainly deserves to have the Mad Max name. [Read more…]

London Road (DVD Review)

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It’s difficult not to look at London Road and think that it ought to have been a disaster. For a start, a musical about a fairly recent serial killer case sounds tacky and a little bit tasteless. Likewise, having a musical where all the lyrics are taken from real-life interviews, using the original genuine speech-patterns, sounds like the sort of thing that might be nice as an artistic exercise, but not anything that could create good songs that people would be interested in hearing.

However, when London Road reached the National Theatre stage in London, critics had to eat their words and admit it was really good. Whether it would survive a jump to film was another matter, as while it worked within the inherent theatrical artifice of the stage, bringing it out into the ‘real world’ is something rather different. [Read more…]

Back To The Future 30th Anniversary Trilogy (Blu-ray Review)

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Every year the internet gets excited after someone photoshops an image from Back To The Future to suggest we’ve finally reached the date that Marty, Doc Brown and Jennifer go to when they travel into the future in Back To The Future Part II. However, it’s always been a hoax – until now, that is!

Yep, October 21st, 2015 is the date that fans have been waiting for, even if we’ve had to come to accept that flying cars, hover boards, self-lacing shoes and food rehydrators aren’t the commonplace items the movie suggested they would be.

It’s not too surprising then that a DVD and Blu-ray re-release has been put together to celebrate both 30 years since the original movie and the fact we’ve very nearly reached the future (as well as 60 years since the 1955 parts of the trilogy). [Read more…]