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Inside Out ‘Puppy Bowl’ Spot – Pixar has a different take on Super Bowl commercials

February 2, 2015 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Inside-Out-pic1-slideNow everyone is interested in sports, but if it was puppies playing, perhaps even they would be drawn in. In Pixar’s take on a Super Bowl spot they introduce us to the Puppy Bowl, where little doggies are in competition.

It’s a great way of showing us the film’s premise, which turns the emotions of a young girl into characters inside her mind. Take a look below.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘From an adventurous balloon ride above the clouds to a monster-filled metropolis, Academy Award®-winning director Pete Docter (“Monsters, Inc.,” “Up”) has taken audiences to unique and imaginative places. In Disney•Pixar’s original movie “ Inside Out,” he will take us to the most extraordinary location of all—inside the mind.

‘Growing up can be a bumpy road, and it’s no exception for Riley, who is uprooted from her Midwest life when her father starts a new job in San Francisco. Like all of us, Riley is guided by her emotions – Joy (Amy Poehler), Fear (Bill Hader), Anger (Lewis Black), Disgust (Mindy Kaling) and Sadness (Phyllis Smith). The emotions live in Headquarters, the control center inside Riley’s mind, where they help advise her through everyday life. As Riley and her emotions struggle to adjust to a new life in San Francisco, turmoil ensues in Headquarters. Although Joy, Riley’s main and most important emotion, tries to keep things positive, the emotions conflict on how best to navigate a new city, house and school.’

It’ll be in US cinemas in June and the UK in July, 2015. [Read more…]

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DIRECTORS: Pete Docter  FILMS: Inside Out  

Fast & Furious 7 Super Bowl Spot – Car chases and explosions, what did you expect?

February 2, 2015 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Furious-7-poster1It’s not often they include the moment where a franchise may have completely jumped the shark in a trailer, but they may have done so with the Super Bowl spot for Fast & Furious 7 (known simply as Furious 7 in the US).

Two cars speed up in to bumper to bumper collision. Both drivers presumable survive but the impact is apparently so enormous that it blows out all the windows in the plate glass building behind them. Someone needs to give the filmmakers a quick lesson in physics.

But then, the franchise has never been that sensible, and just to ensure we don’t think this is going to be even vaguely realistic, there’s also a car jumping from skyscraper to skyscraper tens of stories up.

I do kind of wonder whether moving even further from a vague sense of reality is deliberate, as the film was always going to have difficulties if viewers felt even vague echoes of Paul Walker’s untimely death in a fiery car wreck, and so shifting further toward fantasy does make sense on that score.

Some will love it, but personally I can’t believe I just saw that. [Read more…]

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ACTORS: Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Dwayne Johnson, Michelle Rodriguez, Lucas Black, Jordana Brewster  DIRECTORS: James Wan  FILMS: Fast & Furious 7  

Tomorrowland Super Bowl Spot – George Clooney is getting futuristic

February 2, 2015 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

tomorrowland-teaser-posterWhile the summer movie season is always jam-packed with sequels and properties that are already well-known, there are always a couple of big movies that don’t have a built in audience trying to hit it big. Tomorrowland is one of those for 2015, as despite being named after a section of Disneyland, it’s a completely original story.

Indeed, many believe Disney’s hope is that if the film is successful it will help that section of the park and spark a complete revamp, rather than the other way around.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘‘From Disney comes two-time Oscar® winner Brad Bird’s riveting, mystery adventure “Tomorrowland,” starring Academy Award® winner George Clooney. Bound by a shared destiny, former boy-genius Frank (Clooney), jaded by disillusionment, and Casey (Britt Robertson), a bright, optimistic teen bursting with scientific curiosity, embark on a danger-filled mission to unearth the secrets of an enigmatic place somewhere in time and space known only as “Tomorrowland.” What they must do there changes the world—and them—forever.’

The film is due out May 2015. [Read more…]

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ACTORS: George Clooney, Britt Robertson, Hugh Laurie  DIRECTORS: Brad Bird  FILMS: Tomorrowland  

Jurassic World Super Bowl Spot – Chris Pratt shows off his velociraptor skills

February 2, 2015 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

jurassic-world-poster1-slideWhen early trailers for movies come out, there’s often a lot of complaining about the special effects, with many not realising that due to the fact it’s months until the release the shots we’re getting aren’t in there finished form.

That was certain true of the Jurassic World trailer, but now the Super Bowl spot is here, which contains many of the same shots but the quality of the dinos has certainly improved. Hell, there’s even a shot which in the original trailer was just people running and screening, and now is full of pterodactyls.

There are also a few neat additions, such as Chris Pratt showing he’s figured out how to work with the velociraptors and stop them eating him, as well as glimpses of the movie’s fearsome genetically created beasty, the Indominus Rex.

Take a look below. [Read more…]

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ACTORS: Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard  DIRECTORS: Colin Trevorrow  FILMS: Jurassic World  

The Gay-Themed Kiss Me, Kill Me Marks The End Of Principal Photography With A Pic Of Van Hansis

February 1, 2015 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

van-hansis-kiss-me-kill-meOften it seems that things move incredibly slowly in Hollywood, but there are also moments when things go at lightning speed, and that’s the case with the gay-themed mystery Kiss Me, Kill Me. In October 2014 it was seeking funding on Kickstarter, by November it got the greenlight, it started filming a few weeks ago and now it’s wrapped production.

To mark the occasion director Casper Andreas tweeted/instagrammed the pic above of one of the movie’s stars, Van Hansis, along with the words, ‘Directing from the backseat! #KissMeKillMe @ Echo Park & Sunset Blvd’, following it up a little later with ‘Ubering it home after wrapping principal photography of @kissmekillmemovie! Thrilled with everything we shot! Thrilled to be done! #prouddirector #KissMeKillMe #murdermystery #LosAngeles #filmnoir #exhausted #goodnight’.

Kiss Me, Kill Me is a contemporary Alfred Hitchcock/Agatha Christie-style ‘who-done-it’, with the mystery centered on Dusty, who confronts his unfaithful boyfriend and blacks-out, only to wake up to find his boyfriend murdered and he’s the prime suspect.

The picture stars Gale Harold, playing a gay character for the first time since his iconic performance as Brian Kinney on Showtime’s Queer as Folk, and three-time Emmy nominee Van Hansis, from As the World Turns, and the acclaimed Eastsiders.

The movie will hopefully be ready for screens later this year.

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ACTORS: Van Hansis, Gale Harold, Matthew Ludwinski  DIRECTORS: Casper Andreas  FILMS: Kiss Me Kill Me  

James Franco Lines Up Starry Cast For Steinbeck Adaptation In Dubious Battle

February 1, 2015 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

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James Franco has directed far more movies than most people realise, and part of the reason many have gone under the radar is that that are small films with the only well-known name being behind the camera (and ended up with limited distribution).

However he’s thinking bigger with his Steinbeck adaptation In Dubious Battle, with THR reporting that Franco will star alongside Selena Gomez, Vincent D’Onofrio, Robert Duvall, Ed Harris, Bryan Cranston and Danny McBride.

Published in 1936, In Dubious Battle is considered the first major work of Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Steinbeck. Set in a fictionalized valley in California, the story explores themes Steinbeck continued to develop: group behavior, social injustice, man’s inhumanity to man— all themes which continue to be relevant today. A labor conflict between migrant apple pickers and the local growers’ association is the backdrop against which Jim Nolan (Franco) becomes involved in the labor movement and rapidly matures as he learns what it means to do organizational fieldwork.

It doesn’t exactly sound like the most thrilling of plots, but it was always one of Steinbeck’s skills, to make seemingly dull subject – quite often labour relations and the precarious position of manual labourers in a changing world – and make them interesting. Hopefully Franco will do the same. He’s certainly got a good cast to help him.

The movie will start shooting next month.

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ACTORS: James Franco, Selena Gomez, Vincent D'Onofrio, Robert Duvall, Ed Harris, Bryan Cranston, Danny McBride  DIRECTORS: James Franco  FILMS: In Dubious Battle  

Jurassic World Teases The Fearsome Indominus Rex With New Pics

February 1, 2015 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

indominus-rex-jurassic-world-tease-slideThere were a lot of grumblings when it was first rumoured that Jurassic World would include a genetically engineered dinosaur and not just ones brought back to life from the past. However to my mind it’s always made sense – after all part of the point of the earlier movies is about meddling with nature, and (while dealt with more fully in Michael Crichton’s original novel), the dinos are a melange of modern and ancient DNA anyway.

Therefor ethere’s a logic to the scientists wanting to tinker further and see what beasts they can create on their own, especially once the Jurassic World park has opened and they’re looking for the cool new thing to attract the visitors. A terrifying, super-dino would be their version of a world-class, white knuckle rollercoaster in a traditional theme park.

However the makers have been keeping the creature under wraps and while there have been a few glimpses of the sort of thing we’ll be getting with images of tie-in merchandising etc. there still isn’t an official picture. Now though they’re teasing the ‘Idominus Rex’, via the film’s website with the teaser pics below both of its teeth and its massively fortified enclosure.

I think it’s safe to say it won’t be staying in that cage and all hell will break loose.

The website also offers this info on the creature: ‘We set out to make Indominus the most fearsome dinosaur ever to be displayed at Jurassic World. The genetic engineers at our Hammond Creation Lab have more than delivered.

‘At first glance, Indominus most closely resembles a T. Rex. But its distinctive head ornamentation and ultra-tough bony osteoderms can be traced from Theropods known as Abeliosaurs. Indominus’ horns have been placed above the eye orbit through genetic material hybridized from Carnotaurus, Majungasaurus, Rugops and Giganotosaurus. Fearsome indeed.

‘Indominus’ roar is estimated to reach 140-160db—the same as a 747 taking off and landing. And it can reach speeds of 30 mph…while confined to its enclosure. Come experience Indominus Rex for yourself beginning this summer. If you dare.’

Jurassic World is in cinemas this June. [Read more…]

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DIRECTORS: Colin Trevorrow  FILMS: Jurassic World  

Jamie Dornan Gets Hooked Up In The First Pic From The 9th Life of Louis Drax

February 1, 2015 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

jamie-dornan-9th-life-of-louis-drax-pic1It’s only a couple of weeks until Jamie Dornan’s star power is likely to shoot through the roof thanks to his role as Christian Grey in Fifty Shades Of Grey, but he’s already got a new movie in the works, as he’s starring in The 9th Life of Louis Drax.

Now the first image from the movie has arrived, via Empire, showing the actor hooked up to a machine while in a hospital.

Based on based on Liz Jensen’s best-selling novel, the 9th Life of Louis Drax begins on Louis Drax’s (Aiden Longworth) 9th birthday, when he miraculously survives a near fatal fall. His doctor Allan Pascal (Jamie Dornan) finds himself tangled between his professional responsibility and his growing affections for the boy’s mother (Sarah Gadon). When Louis’ father (Aaron Paul) comes under suspicion, Pascal realizes other mysterious forces may be at work that test the boundaries of fantasy and reality.

Alexandre Aja is directing from a screenplay by Max Minghella (who took on the project following the death of his father, English Patient director Anthony Minghella, who’d previously been developing the movie).

The movie should be in cinemas later this year.

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ACTORS: Jamie Dornan  DIRECTORS: Alexandre Aja  FILMS: The 9th Life Of Louis Drax  

Karl Urban Up For Pete’s Dragon, Replacing Michael C. Hall

February 1, 2015 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Karl-UrbanA few weeks ago Michael C. Hall signed up to appear in Disney’s planned remake of Pete’s Dragon, but it seems he’s had to leave for some reason – although it’s not clear why – and has been replaced by Karl Urban, according to TheWrap.

However as when Hall signed up, there’s still no news on what character he’ll be portraying.

The original 1977 movie was a mix of live-action and animation, about a boy who escapes his horrible adoptive parents and befriends a dragon called Elliott. This time around the dragon with be CGI, and the story will also be rather different (it also won’t be a musical). Here Pete was raised in a forest by the dragon after his parents died in a car accident. He has to take on a group of loggers who are cutting down all of the trees.

Robert Redford is set play a local who tells tall tales involving dragons that no one believes, the equivalent of Mickey Rooney’s Lampie from the original. Bryce Dallas Howard, Wes Bentley and Oona Laurence will also star.

David Lowery is directing from a script he co-wrote with Toby Halbrooks. It’s believed the movie will start shooting in the next couple of months.

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ACTORS: Karl Urban, Robert Redford  DIRECTORS: David Lowery  FILMS: Pete's Dragon  

Gay Short Film Showcase: The Tanti Man – Memories of a sexy gay summer in the 70s

January 29, 2015 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

tanti-manThe Tanti Man was made a few years ago but looks much, much older thanks to its 70s/80s setting and being shot on 16mm film. Rather than telling a finite story it’s more of a montage of images and reminiscences of filmmaker Bobby Abate’s youth, from memories of a seaside town to when things got sexy with another young man.

It’s strange and yet oddly hypnotic – oh, and it’s also rather NSFW as the footage includes some rather rude pics, so make sure the boss isn’t watching over your shoulder if you view it.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘A summer memoir of my love affair with Salisbury Beach and a strange and charming drifter. When I lived in Boston, I was obsessed with a beach town on the north shore of Massachusetts complete neon pizza shacks, a run-down amusement park, pin ball machines, and a roller skating rink collapsed into the ocean. Populated by colorful weirdos and misfits, I felt more at home here then I did in Boston — it was a place for those who somehow felt protected amongst the crumbling facades and faded memories. At the time, I felt most comfortable in tenuous spaces and in fleeting encounters with unavailable men. THE TANTI MAN is highlighted by melodramatic, self-destructive journal entries from my teenage years that kept me fumbling though uncertain places and relationships for too long. (Camera: Bobby Abate & Tracey McGuirl and featuring Chad Cooper)’

And if you’re wondering what a Tanti Man is, it’s derived from French Creole/Caribbean term for an effeminate man and/or homosexual.

Take a look at the film below. If you know a short film we ought to be posting, tell us by getting in touch via our contact page. And check out more gay short films and web series here. [Read more…]

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