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

Glee’s Jane Lynch Reflects On Her Feelings Growing Up Gay: ‘It Was Almost Like I Had A Disease’

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For a few years now the It Gets Better Project has been encouraging people to make short videos letting young LGBT people know that while it’s tough as a youngster, things do improve. With It Got Better they’re going a little deeper and that includes Jane Lynch, who goes into some depth in a new video, talking about the difficulties she faced growing up gay.

It’s a pretty moving interview and well worth watching, where she touches on plenty of things LGBT people will recognise about the fears in the early stages of realising you aren’t quite like most other people around you – but that things do most definitely improve. Lynch says, ‘There were certain ways you behaved. Boys did certain things, girls did certain things and I did not fit in that.

‘I identified more with boy things. I enjoyed dressing like a boy. Boys stopped wanting to play with me when I got to about 10, I had to fight to play baseball. Every day I didn’t know I was going to be received because I would just hang out until I got to play. Deep down inside I knew that there was something else going on.

‘I finally had a word for it when I was about 14. I had these friends and they said, ‘‘You know on the beach sometimes you’ll see guys walking together holding hands and they’re gay for each other’’ and I thought,  ‘I am the girl version of that’.

‘It was almost like I had a disease, I felt like I had been diagnosed.’

Things have definitely changed for her though, as she adds, ‘Now I live in a world where I don’t give a shit if you have a problem with who I am.’ [Read more…]

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Fancy Choosing Your Own Neil Patrick Harris Autobiography? You May Get The Chance

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neil-patrick-harris-autobiography-slideI’m still not 100% sure if this is real, but NPH tweeted it himself, so presumably it’s not just some elaborate joke, but it appears that rather than just releasing a traditional autobiography, he wants those who grew up in the 80s to get a bit nostalgic, as he’s written a choose your own autobiography – complete with a rather cool throwback cover.

The accompanying website says: ‘Sick of deeply personal accounts written in the first person? Seeking an exciting, interactive read that puts the “u” back in “aUtobiography”? Then look no further than Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography! In this revolutionary, Joycean experiment in light celebrity narrative, actor/personality/carbon-based life-form Neil Patrick Harris lets you, the reader, live his life. You will be born in New Mexico. You will get your big break at an acting camp. You will get into a bizarre confrontation outside a nightclub with actor Scott Caan. Even better, at each critical juncture of your life you will choose how to proceed. You will decide whether to try out for Doogie Howser, M.D. You will decide whether to spend years struggling with your sexuality. You will decide what kind of caviar you want to eat on board Elton John’s yacht.

‘Choose correctly and you’ll find fame, fortune, and true love. Choose incorrectly and you’ll find misery, heartbreak, and a guest stint on Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew. All this, plus magic tricks, cocktail recipes, embarrassing pictures from your time as a child actor, and even a closing song. Yes, if you buy one book this year, congratulations on being above the American average, but make that book Neil Patrick Harris: Choose Your Own Autobiography! On sale October 14, 2014.’

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Jonah Hill Has To Kiss Channing Tatum’s Penis If Asked

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22-jump-street-tatum-hillHave you ever wished you were Jonah Hill? Well now you have more reason to, as he lost a bet where his forfeit was that he promised to kiss Channing Tatum penis. Apparently that’s seen a something bad in the straight guy world (sometimes it’s difficult to understand those breeders).

Tatum revealed the details in an interview with GQ, which revolved around a bet where Hill told him, “I will kiss your tip! I will kiss the tip of your dick through your underwear if we make $35 million [on 21 Jump Street’s US opening weekend].”

“I haven’t made him do it yet,” Tatum says. “For obvious reasons. That’s a bad bet to lose—it’s not too good to win, either. But definitely the shame of it would be enjoyable. It’s my trump card, for sure. He tries not to bring it up at all costs. Unless he did something horrible to me, I don’t know if I could ever cash it in. It would change our relationship forever.”

He adds though, “Maybe on a drunk night when we’re all being crazy and hopefully, knock on wood, Jump Street 2 works out and people love it, maybe out of the elation of that event in our lives I might call in the bet. Or I might make him double or nothing.”

We’ll take that bet!

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Kingsman: The Secret Service Trailer – Plus a poster for Matthew Vaughn’s Colin Firth spy adventure

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Matthew Vaughn left X-Men behind partly so he could finally make his long-gestating adaptation of The Secret Service, based on Mark Millar’s comic The Secret Service.

Now it has a new name – Kingsman: The Secret Service – suggesting they’re already viewing it as a potential franchise, along with a poster, pics and the first trailer.

It’s essentially a particularly posh James Bond (in the form of Colin Firth) teaming up with someone much younger (newcomer Taron Egerton) and on a very different part of the social ladder, to take on an evil threat. And they’ve invited the likes of Michael Caine and Samuel L. Jackson along for the ride.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Based upon the acclaimed comic book and directed by Matthew Vaughn (“Kick-Ass,” “X-Men: First Class”), “Kingsman: The Secret Service” tells the story of a super-secret spy organization that recruits an unrefined but promising street kid into the agency’s ultra-competitive training program just as a global threat emerges from a twisted tech genius.’

The film’s due out this autumn.

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Lost River Teaser Trailer – Matt Smith gets muscly & Iain De Caestecker watches in Ryan Gosling’s directorial debut

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Matt Smith has been working out and this first teaser for Ryan Gosling’s directorial debut wants to prove it – after all, Smith spends a good chunk of it repeating ‘Look at my muscles’ over and over again.

It’s a little odd, slightly hyper-real, a bit ethereal and very intriguing, even if it doesn’t go that deep into the more fantastical elements of the movie.

The film has been described as being ‘Set against the surreal dreamscape of a vanishing city, BILLY, a single mother of two, is swept into a macabre and dark fantasy underworld while BONES, her eighteen-year-old son, discovers a secret road leading to an underwater town. Both Billy and Bones must dive deep into the mystery, if their family is to survive.’

Iain De Caestecker, who co-stars and is the other main presence in the trailer, told Empire last year, “There’s my character, Bones, his mother and his younger brother. There’s also a girl next door played by Saoirse Ronan, called Rat. It’s about this family living in a town called Lost River, which is perhaps a place that was once full of family and happiness and love, and is now this town that’s slowly descending into a place without any hope. This family is holding onto the foundations of their house and everything they think they need to hold onto.” [Read more…]

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Boyfriends Michael Urie & Ryan Spahn Take On A Gay Comedy

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michael-urie-ryan-spahnChicago theatre company About Face Theatre’s Pride Performance Series just got a little bit starrier, as The Advocate reports that Ugly Betty’s Michael Urie and his real-life boyfriend Ryan Spahn will kick things off with a reading of The Last Sunday in June by gay playwright Jonathan Tolins.

They will play ‘Tom and Michael [who] intend to spend the day planning their impending move from the Big Apple to the upstate town of Nyack, but their plans are rerouted as one friend after another drops by to view the parade from the window of their Christopher Street apartment. An afternoon originally designated for things domestic instead turns into a series of conversations about relationships, self-acceptance and the very meaning of what it is to be gay, eventually calling into question Tom and Michael’s relationship itself.’

The play first premiered back in 2003 at Off-Broadway’s Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, but this performance will take place at the Greenhouse Theater in Chicago on June 2nd. You can find out more here.

Urie is actually in the Windy City with his one-man show, Buyer & Cellar (which was also written by Tolins), which runs until June 15 at the Broadway Playhouse.

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New Guardians Of The Galaxy Trailer – Chris Pratt and co. get into a massive space opera

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As promised, Marvel has released a new trailer for Guardians Of The Galaxy, and it’s looking good. Thankfully along with the vast amounts of special effects, it seems like the film will have a sense of humour.

And if you’re wondering what Rocket Raccoon and Groot sound like, this is the trailer for you.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘From Marvel, the studio that brought you the global blockbuster franchises of Iron Man, Thor, Captain America and The Avengers, comes a new team—the Guardians of the Galaxy. An action-packed, epic space adventure, Marvel’s “Guardians of the Galaxy” expands the Marvel Cinematic Universe into the cosmos, where brash adventurer Peter Quill finds himself the object of an unrelenting bounty hunt after stealing a mysterious orb coveted by Ronan, a powerful villain with ambitions that threaten the entire universe. To evade the ever-persistent Ronan, Quill is forced into an uneasy truce with a quartet of disparate misfits—Rocket, a gun-toting raccoon, Groot, a tree-like humanoid, the deadly and enigmatic Gamora and the revenge-driven Drax the Destroyer. But when Quill discovers the true power of the orb and the menace it poses to the cosmos, he must do his best to rally his ragtag rivals for a last, desperate stand—with the galaxy’s fate in the balance.

‘Marvel’s “Guardians of the Galaxy,” which first appeared in comic books in Marvel Super-Heroes, Issue #18 (Jan. 1969). James Gunn is the director of the film with Kevin Feige producing, and Louis D’Esposito, Victoria Alonso, Jeremy Latcham, Alan Fine and Stan Lee serve as executive producers. The story is by Nicole Perlman and James Gunn, with screenplay by James Gunn. Marvel’s “Guardians of the Galaxy” releases in UK cinemas on August 1, 2014.’ [Read more…]

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Hellion Trailer – Aaron Paul gets really beardy for a new thriller

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If you, like many others, have spent night awake wondering how full a beard Aaron Paul can grow, then Hellion is the movie for you!

But it’s not just about his beard.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Breaking Bad’s Aaron Paul stars in this riveting drama about a family under siege. Hard-drinking Texas single dad Hollis (Paul) struggles to raise his two boys, including rebellious teenager Jacob (first-time actor Josh Wiggins in a stunning breakthrough performance). Seething with anger, Jacob finds release in the high-risk, white-knuckle world of motocross—but his increasingly reckless behavior threatens to spin out of control. Academy Award nominee Juliette Lewis co-stars in this thrilling saga of fathers and sons that builds towards a heart-stopping climax, all set to an electrifying heavy metal soundtrack.’

The movie is out in the US in June.

And if Aaron Paul ever wants to go to any bear bars, we’re sure he’ll get a warm welcome. [Read more…]

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Foxcatcher Teaser Trailer – Steve Carell & Channing Tatum stars in the Cannes hit

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It may be eight months until the Oscars, but thanks to glowing reviews at Cannes, Foxcatcher has emerges as the first frontrunner and some are already suggesting Steve Carell (and his prosthetic nose) and going to walk off with the Best Actor Oscar?

So are they right? Well, we can now have our first taster, thanks to a teaser that’s been released.

The drama is based on the true tale of Olympic wrestler Dave Schultz (Mark Ruffalo), who was murdered by his paranoid schizophrenic friend Jon Du Pont (Steve Carell) in 1996. Du Pont was an heir to the Du Pont chemical company, who teamed up with Dave’s brother Mark (Tatum) to build a wrestling training facility known as ‘Team Foxcatcher’ on his sprawling Pennsylvania estate. The Schultzes tried to get Du Pont help for years before the murder. Sienna Miller plays Nancy, Doug Schultz’s wife,

Bennett Miller directs from a screenplay by Dan Futterman and E. Max Frye. It’s out in the US on December 20th, with a mid-January UK date set. [Read more…]

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Alfonso Cuaron In Talks For Harry Potter Spin-Off Fantastic Beasts & Where To Find Them

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Alfonso-CuaronFor many people the best of the Harry Potter movies is Prisoner Of Azkaban, partly because of the very human touches director Alfonso Cuaron brought to it. However he left Hogwarts after that movie, but now he’s may be returning to the Potter univeser, as Nikki Finke has tweeted:

‘I hear Alfonso Cuaron (‘Gravity’, ‘HP/Azkaban’) deep in talks to direct JK Rowling’s Harry Potter spinoff ‘Fantastic Beasts’. Perfect pick.’

Assuming Finke’s info is correct (which some are doubting, seeing as Cuaron is just coming off a Best Director Oscar for Gravity and could get anything he wanted off the ground), he would take on Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, based on the textbook Harry uses at Hogwarts. Well, not the actual textbook, but it’s creation.

The film will follows the adventures of the book’s author Newt Scamander 70 years before the Harry Potter first arrives at Hogwarts, as he discovers the terrible beasties that feature in his book. The spin-off will introduce a new set of characters and creatures, although set in a Wizarding universe that will be familiar to HP fans.

JK Rowling herself has been writing the script, while Warner Bros. has set a November 18th, 2016 release date.

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