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

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

Brad Pitt & Angelina Jolie Are Unhappily Married In First By The Sea Pics

September 17, 2014 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

by-the-sea-pic1Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt may be newlyweds, but it doesn’t look like their honeymoon period will be reflected in the new movie they’re making together, By The Sea. That’s if these first pics are anything to go by.

EW doesn’t just have the pics either, as they’re also offering the first story details for the movie. They says the film is, ‘Set in France during the mid-1970s, Jolie plays Vanessa, a former dancer, and Pitt is her husband Roland, an American writer. As they travel the country together, they seem to be growing apart, but when they linger in one quiet, seaside town they begin to draw close to some of its more vibrant inhabitants, such as a local bar/café (War Horse and War Horse’s Niels Arestrup) and hotel owner (Richard Bohringer, The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover).’

Jolie isn’t just starring in the movie, as she’s also directing and wrote the script. She comments, “I chose to set By the Sea in the 1970s, not only because it is a colorful and alluring era, but because it removes many of the distractions of contemporary life and allows the focus to remain squarely on the emotions that the characters experience in their journey.”

The movie continues to shoot until November, with a 2015 release expected.

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ACTORS: Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie  DIRECTORS: Angelina Jolie  FILMS: By The Sea  

Matthew McConaughey Goes Interstellar In A New Poster For Christopher Nolan’s New Movie

September 17, 2014 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

interstellar-poster2The marketing for Interstellar seems to be based on the idea that every new titbit takes us further and further away from earth. The first teaser and poster were pretty much earth-bound, the last trailer took us through take-off and into space, and now a new poster shows us Matthew McConaughey in full spaceman mode on another planet (well, presumably he’s meant to be on another planet and didn’t just decide to wear a spacesuit up a mountain).

Here’s the official synopsis: ‘Directed and co-written by Christopher Nolan (“Inception,” “The Dark Knight” Trilogy), the production will travel the globe and utilize a mixture of 35mm anamorphic and IMAX film photography to bring to the screen a script based on the combination of an original idea by Nolan and an existing script by Jonathan Nolan, originally developed for Paramount Pictures and producer Lynda Obst. The new script chronicles the adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.’

As it’s a Nolan movie, that synopsis doesn’t tell us much, but other info released has let us know that it’s set on a world that’s dying and running out of natural resources, with the wormhole offering humanity renewed hope. Explorers are sent through the hole to see whether they can find some new solutions.

Along with McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Ellen Burstyn, Casey Affleck, Bill Irwin, David Gyasi, David Oyelowo, Wes Bentley, Michael Caine, and John Lithgow star. It’s due out in November.

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ACTORS: Matthew McConaughey  DIRECTORS: Christopher Nolan  FILMS: Interstellar  

Tom Hiddleston Up For King Kong Prequel Skull Island

September 17, 2014 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Tom-HiddlestonIt’s not often a movie gets trailer before the film has a director or a cast, but Skull Island did when Legendary unveiled a promo for the movie at Comic Con a few months ago (although sadly only those in San Diego got to see it).

Now Universal and Legendary are filling in the blanks, with the announcement that Tom Hiddleston will play the main human role, while King Of Summer helmer Jordan Vogt-Roberts will direct.

There are still no details of the plot of Max Borenstein’s script, although it is known that the movie will be entirely set on Skull Island, the mysterious place full of dinosaurs and monsters, along with giant apes. Taking place before the events of King Kong, the speculation is that it will be about how Kong became the last of the giant gorillas.

The film’s due out November 2016.

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ACTORS: Tom Hiddleston  DIRECTORS: Jordan Vogt-Roberts  FILMS: Skull Island  

Chris Hemsworth Will Never Get Out of This World Alive

September 17, 2014 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Chris-HemsworthIs there a bit of country music jealousy going on in the Marvel family? Tom Hiddleston is gearing up to star in a biopic of the legendary Hank Williams, and now his on-screen brother, Chris Hemsworth, has optioned the rights to Steve Earle’s novel I’ll Never Get Out Of This World Alive, which he plans to star in and produce, according to TheWrap.

The book also has a Hank Williams flavour as it’s about Toby ‘Doc’ Ebersole, who was involved in Williams’ death back in 1953. 10 years after that event, Ebersole has had his medical license revoked and is living in the red light district of San Antonio, Texas, where he supports his drug habit by performing illegal medical procedures. And just to make things a bit more complicated, he’s constantly haunted by Hank’s ghost.

The title comes from the last single Hank Williams released while he was alive.

Benjamin Grayson adapted the screenplay and will also direct. It’s not clear when it will shoot.

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ACTORS: Chris Hemsworth  

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Trailer – Jennifer Lawrence reluctantly leads a rebellion

September 15, 2014 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

hunger-games-mockinjay-katniss-final-poster-slideAfter promising it a few days ago, the trailer for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay is here and there’s no doubt it’s looking pretty cool. It successfully broaches the fact that the third Hunger Games novel is rather different to the first two, by suggesting that this time around the whole of Panem is the arena.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘The worldwide phenomenon of The Hunger Games continues to set the world on fire with The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1, which finds Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) in District 13 after she literally shatters the games forever. Under the leadership of President Coin (Julianne Moore) and the advice of her trusted friends, Katniss spreads her wings as she fights to save Peeta (Josh Hutcherson) and a nation moved by her courage. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 is directed by Francis Lawrence from a screenplay by Danny Strong and Peter Craig and produced by Nina Jacobson’s Color Force in tandem with producer Jon Kilik. The novel on which the film is based is the third in a trilogy written by Suzanne Collins that has over 65 million copies in print in the U.S. alone.’

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 is due out in the UK on November 20th, 2014, with the final film (until an inevitable further sequel or spin-off is announced), The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2, out the same time the following year. [Read more…]

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ACTORS: Jennifer Lawrence, Liam Hemsworth, Julianne Moore, Josh Hutcherson, Woody Harrelson  DIRECTORS: Francis Lawrence  FILMS: The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1  

My Straight Son (DVD Review)

September 15, 2014 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: Guillermo Garcia, Ignacio Montes, Hilda Abrahamz, Carolina Torres, Socrates Serrano
Director: Miguel Ferrari
Running Time: 114 mins
Certificate: 15
Release Date: September 15th 2014 (UK)

Diego is a photographer in Venezuela, living a nice life where he can go out to clubs and restaurants, and spend time with his doctor boyfriend, Fabrizio. However his life takes an abrupt right turn when his teenage son, Armando, arrives from Spain to visit and quickly realises that his dad is gay – something the young man isn’t that impressed about. Around the same time Fabrizio is beaten into a coma, leaving Diego reeling.

Diego’s friends become an unconventional family while he tries to deal with what happened to his boyfriend and also attempts to reconnect with his son. [Read more…]

Cheyenne Jackson Gets Hitched To Boyfriend Jason Landau

September 15, 2014 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

cheyenne-jackson-jason-landau-weddingCheyenne Jackson was one of the first gay celebs to get married shortly after it was made legal in New York in 2011. Sadly two years later he became one of the first well-known figures to get a divorce from a same sex partner.

However now it’s time for wedding bells again as Jackson married new boyfriend Jason Landau over the weekend at a private ceremony in Encino, California.

Jackson announced the news himself, posting the pic above and the message ‘M A R R I E D. Life is Beautiful’.

Guests are reported to have included Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Jane Lynch and Alicia Silverstone, with the event said to have a woodsy theme to reflect Jackson’s Idaho upbringing.

Landau has said of the ceremony, “There were branches of trees hovering over the tennis court we’re on, with over 100 mini chandeliers draping the entire party. It was gorgeous.”

Jackson meanwhile told People magazine, “This means a new beginning for us. It was love at first sight and this is just the culmination of that.”

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ACTORS: Cheyenne Jackson  

The Imitation Game Picks Up People’s Choice Award At Toronto International Film Festival

September 15, 2014 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

imitation-game-slideThe biopic of gay mathematician and codebreaker Alan Turing got a great boost to its Oscar chances over the weekend by picking up the Grolsch People’s Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival.

While the reviews from its first screenings were somewhat mixed, the prize will help keep the movie at the forefront of Oscar voters minds in the run-up to awards season. Even those reviews that had issues with the film have praised Benedict Cumberbatch’s performance as Turing, with many seeing him as a shoe-in for his first Academy Award nomination.

Turing was a pioneer of modern-day computing who is credited with helping crack the fiendish German codes, such as Enigma, during the Second World War. The film chronicles the nail-biting race against time by Turing and his brilliant team at Britain’s top-secret code-breaking centre, Bletchley Park. Turing, whose contributions and genius significantly shortened the war, saving thousands of lives, was the eventual victim of an unenlightened British Establishment.

Tragically in the 1950s Turing admitted to the police he was gay while reporting a robbery, believing they would protect him and catch those who’d stolen from him. Instead it was him who found himself in court. After he was convicted he was shunned by the establishment and despite his incredible mind he found himself pushed to the sidelines. He committed suicide (although some say it was an accident) not too long afterwards.

The film will be in cinemas in November.

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ACTORS: Benedict Cumberbatch  DIRECTORS: Morten Tyldum  FILMS: The Imitation Game  

Sabotage (Blu-ray Review)

September 15, 2014 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sam Worthington, Terrence Howard, Mireille Enos, Joe Manganiello
Director: Davis Ayer
Running Time: 109 mins
Certificate: 15
Release Date: September 15th 2014 (UK)

There’s a tendency that even film reviewers fall into, which is to think that we always treat each individual film on its own merits. However sometimes it’s often not true. There can be a big problem when people go into a movie thinking it’s going to be one thing when actually it’s something else. As a result they judge it against their expectations not against the film itself.

I couldn’t help thinking about that while watching Sabotage, as many of the truly horrendous reviews the film have received are essentially bemoaning the fact they thought they were getting a ‘typical’ Arnie movie. However it’s not that, but the reviews still seem to view it through the lens of 80s Schwarzenegger. [Read more…]

Only Lovers Left Alive (Blu-ray Review)

September 15, 2014 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: Tom Hiddleston, Tilda Swinton, Mia Wasikowska, Anton Yelchin, John Hurt
Director: Jim Jarmusch
Running Time: 123 mins
Certificate: 15
Release Date: September 15th 2014 (UK)

Like many Jim Jarmusch movies, Only Lovers Left Alive is the sort of film where one chunk of the audience will be wondering what sort of tedium they’ve just had to sit through and another chunk will be hailing it as a masterpiece. He is as impressively idiosyncratic director and his films determinedly refuse to be boxed. Many have described him as a cinematic poet, and it’s a very good description. What he’s great at is creating mood, feeling and thought, where narrative isn’t the driving force, it’s merely the thread that pulls the fabric together.

Tom Hiddleston is Adam, who’s living in Detroit making music but keen that nobody bothers him. That’s partly because he’s a vampire and hundreds of years old. He’s also depressed and filled with weariness at the direction mankind has taken and how it treats the promise it has, to the point whether he’s wondering if there’s any point living on to see the future. [Read more…]

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