The Revenant certainly doesn’t sound like your typical Leo DiCaprio film, but it’s certainly intriguing, and the fact it has Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (Birdman, Babel) behind the camera also bodes extremely well.
Now the first couple of pics from the movie have arrived via EW, featuring a bearded and rather grubby DiCaprio alongside Inarritu.
Leo plays the central role in the based-on-a-true-story story, as 1820s fur trader Hugh Glass. He gets mauled by a grizzly bear and then to make matters worse he is robbed and left for dead. Glass manages to survive and sets off on a quest for vengeance against those who robbed him.
Tom Hardy, Will Poulter, and Domnhall Gleeson also star.
The director adds of the movie, “It’s a fun ride. It’s a very experimental thing that we’re doing here… I’m now addicted to doing things that can fail horribly or maybe that can give us a surprise. We are all into it.”
When Disney bought Lucasfilm they quickly announced not just that they would produce a new trilogy continuing the main Star Wars story arc, but that in the years between those films would be standalone movies. One of those even has a director – Godzilla’s Gareth Edwards – and it’s even gotten to the point where they’re starting to look at actors.
We haven’t had a crowdfuding campaign on BGPS for a few weeks, but now one has arrived, as the documentary Girl on Girl: A Film About Lesbian Visibility is seeking $25,000 to cover much of the completely costs.
In the last few months you could have been forgiven for assuming that young actor Freddie Fox is gay, due to his turn as a rather fun, camp guy in Pride, and now a sexually voracious bisexual man in Russell T. Davies’ Cucumber. However he’s keen to point out things aren’t as simple as that, and that he doesn’t really want to define his sexuality at all.
If most awards are a bit too straight for you, then GALECA – the Gay & Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association – and their Dorian Awards are for you. They had out gongs for both mainstream and gay-themed films, as well as in more unusual categories such as Campy Film Of The Year, and Wilde Wit Of The Year.
Sean Penn is known for being picky and a bit idiosyncratic with his movie roles, generally avoiding typical Hollywood fare, but there’s no doubt The Gunman doesn’t sound like anything particularly unusual. Let’s hope the great cast – which includes Javier Bardem, Idris Elba, Ray Winstone and Mark Rylance – can raise it above the generic.
Sometimes you see quotes from somebody and you can’t help but hope that out of context they sound a lot worse than they are. I have a feeling that’s the case with Billy Crystal, as while while speaking at a panel for the Television Critics Association on Sunday, he said of 
It is a peculiar thing that in the UK, we’re more likely to know about the history of gay people in the US than we are in our own country – largely because most of the gay-themed films and documentaries we get come from there.
While more and more actors are happy to play gay characters, there are some who aren’t – but usually they don’t say why, often suggesting they simply haven’t found the right role. However Kevin Hart has stepped forward to say why he doesn’t think he could play gay, and to be honest what he says probably applies to a lot of other actors too.
Although we all only found out about their engagement a couple of weeks ago, broadcaster, actor and comedian Stephen Fry has tied the knot with his partner, stand-up comic Elliot Spencer. Fry announced the news himself on Twitter with a picture and the message ‘Gosh. @ElliottGSpencer and I go into a room as two people, sign a book and leave as one. Amazing.’