Reese Witherspoon is returning soon with Wild, based on Cheryl Strayed’s bestselling novel, with a script from top author Nick Hornby (About A Boy, High Fidelity). Now the trailer for the movie has arrived, which you can see below.
The movie is about how Strayed hiked 1,000 miles alone on the Pacific Crest Trail following years of destructive behaviour in the wake of the dissolution of her marriage and her mother’s death. The synopsis says the movie ‘powerfully captures the terrors and pleasures of one young woman forging ahead against all odds on a journey that maddens, strengthens, and ultimately heals her.’
Jean-Marc Vallée (Young Victoria, Dallas Buyers Club) directs, with a late 2014 release planned. [Read more…]
It seems there’s not going to be too much fallout from Gary Oldman defending the homophobic and racist rants of fellow celebs, as thanks to him quickly calling himself an ‘asshole’ for doing so, all seems to be forgiven. It’s certainly not stopped him booking new roles.
The rise of Orange Is The New Black’s Laverne Cox continues with the actress scoring a Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series Emmy nomination, which marks the first time a transgender person has ever been so honoured.
Fans of the more hirsute gentleman rejoice! While there’s a never-ending parade of gay-themed web series fronted by young twinks or almost-hipster 20-somethings, Where The Bears Are has set up its flag as a celebration of the big, hairy, gay man – through the lens of a show that describes itself as ‘The Golden Girls meets Murder She Wrote’.
With Outfest kicking off today, a lot of films will be looking to find their audience and perhaps attract a distributor to give them wider viewership. One of those is Crazy bitches, which screens at 
It’s not just in the big city that you can have family’s the eschew the ‘traditional’ idea of husband, wife and children. Perfect Cowboy, An Alternative Family Musical takes us out into the back of beyond for a tale of two gay dads, their son and country & western music.
A couple of weeks ago President Snow, ruler of The Hunger Games’ Panem gave us an address from The Capitol, as he knew that following the events of Catching Fire, there is dissent in the Districts and if it isn’t stamped out, the whole country could collapse.
Now that Richard Linklater’s 12-year odyssey to make Boyhood is out of the way, he’s moving full steam ahead with the long-gestating remake of the 1964 animated comedy The Incredible Mr. Limpet.
It was arguably 1998’s Gods & Monsters that turned Ian McKellen from a well-loved British stage actor into a movie star (with his Oscar nomination for the movie certainly helping). Now he’s reteaming with the director of that movie, Bill Condon, for Mr. Holmes, about Sherlock Homes when he’s in his 90s.
In the last few months Guillermo Del Toro has been talking up Pacific Rim 2 and his plans for the movie, but it turns out before we get that film, he plans to direct another movie beforehand.