Big Gay Picture Show

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

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey World Premiere Highlights

By Leave a Comment


Last night (which of course was day on the other side of the world), the World Premiere of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey took place in Wellington, New Zealand. Large chunks of the city were turned into Middle Earth for the event, in appreciation of the boost all things Lord Of The Rings have given to the country since Peter Jackson first decided to shoot the movie in his home nation over a decade ago.

Of course The Hobbit movies returned to New Zealand and much of the cast was in Wellington for the premiere, and you can see what they have to say in this highlights video.

The screening has led to rave reviews, suggesting that Jackson is onto another winner, and there’s also been praise for the decision to use a higher frame rate. While some criticised it when footage was shown at Comic Con, saying that while the 3D was better the look was too sharp, those at the premiere were duly impressed. Director Bryan Singer, who also saw the movie last night, admitted to having frame rate envy.

The movie hits cinemas on December 13th, when we’ll be able to see whether the premiere audience was right.

CHECK OUT THESE RELATED ARCHIVES:
ACTORS: ,   DIRECTORS:   FILMS:   

First Episode Of Neil Patrick Harris’ Puppet Dreams Online

By Leave a Comment


Last week we brought you a very entertaining behind-the-scenes look at the upcoming web series, Neil’s Puppet Dreams, featuring out star Neil Patrick Harris, and a load of Jim Henson built puppet madness (along with some hunky blokes in tiny shorts).

Now the first episode, The Lullaby, is online over at the Youtube Nerdist  – and of course it’s embedded above. It sees Neil and hubby David Burtka trying to get the kids to sleep, before the How I Met Your Mother star falls asleep and enters his strange puppet world.

While many of us have experienced falling in our dreams, few of us will have been serenaded on our descent by a puppet goat, doll and squirrel-looking thing who sing to us about how we’re going to get smashed to a pulp when we reach the ground.

The series will air every Tuesday through to the end of January, with upcoming episodes featuring the likes of Nathan Fillion, Joe Manganiello and more.

It looks like it’s going to be a lot of fun, so make sure you check it out!

CHECK OUT THESE RELATED ARCHIVES:
ACTORS:   OTHER:

Win The Lord Of The Rings Extended Editions Blu-rays!

By Leave a Comment


Ahead of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey hitting cinemas on December 13th, Entertainment In Video is releasing The Lord Of The Rings – Extended Editions individually on Blu-ray for the first time on December 3rd. We’ve got two sets of the three movies – Fellowship Of The Rings, The Two Towers and Return Of The King – to give away in this comp, so if you need to revisit the wonderful movies in the best quality possible before The Hobbit hits, this is the comp for you.

In wonderful HD, you can follow Frodo and Sam’s journey from The Shire to Mount Doom, while Aragorn, Gimli and Legolas work to stop the forces of Mordor from overunning Middle Earth and ending the rule of men. With multiple Oscars, gargantuan box office and devoted fans, these are wonderful movies, and in their Extended Editions you get even more, with over two hours of extra footage added in across the films – and perhaps most impressively, they make the movies even better. They really do look great on Blu-ray, so there’s no excuse for not entering!

If you’d like to try and win one of the two sets of the Lord Of The Rings – Extended Editions individual Blu-rays that we’ve got to give away, answer the question below and fill in your details, then press submit! The competition closes on December 10th, so get answering and good luck! [Read more…]

CHECK OUT THESE RELATED ARCHIVES:

Magic Mike (DVD)

By Leave a Comment

While there was a lot of interest in Magic Mike before it was released in cinemas, I don’t think many people suspected that this $7 million budgeted movie would pull in over $100 million at the US box office, or get quite so many people so excited. There’s little doubt much of the interest in the film is that while women are routinely sexualised in cinemas, its rarer for a film to come along that offers the girls and gay guys something to get hot under the collar about, with male characters unabashedly served up for their sexual delectation. [Read more…]

12 Entertaining Gay Films That Try To Do Something Different

By Leave a Comment

There are a lot of gay movie out there, but most get released with little fanfare or have disappeared into the mists of time, so it’s sometimes difficult find information about them, and even if you can, it’s often tough to know it they’re worth watching. I thought therefore it might be worth putting together a list of 10 gay flicks I reckon it’s worth checking out, which are entertaining but try to do something a little different from the usual. The list concentrates on those films that, unlike Milk and Philadelphia, didn’t get a major mainstream push, and which show the breadth of what gay cinema has tried to do over the years, from horror movies and musicals to roms coms and animation.  So here we go… [Read more…]

CHECK OUT THESE RELATED ARCHIVES:
FILMS: , , , , , , , , , , ,   

The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones Trailer & Poster

By 1 Comment


With the success of Twilight and Hunger Games everyone wants a slice of the young adult pie. One of those films lining up in hopes of finding success is The Mortal Instuments: City Of Bones, based on Cassandra Clare’s series of novels. The film is about Clary Fray (Lily Collins), a teenager living in Brooklyn who learns that she is the descendent of a long line of demon hunters called Shadowhunters. Unsurprisingly this news completely changes her life and sets her off on a quest to find her mother – a fellow shadowhunter – who’s been kidnapped by somebody called Valentine.

In addition to Collins, the cast includes Lena Headey (Clary’s mother), Jamie Campbell Bower (Jace Wayland), Jared Harris (Hodge Starkweather), and Jonathan Rhys Meyers (Valentine Morgenstern). Is is rather off that the entire main cast is British os Irish if the movie is set in New York. Has America run out of actors? Maybe we’re just better at fantasy on this side of the pond.

Now the first trailer and poster has arrived, which you can see here. The film hits cinemas August 23rd, 2013.

CHECK OUT THESE RELATED ARCHIVES:

Oz The Great & Powerful Full Trailer – Sam Raimi’s flick is looking incredibly fantastical

By Leave a Comment


As we were promised when the full banner poster for Oz the Great And Powerful was revealed yesterday, a new full trailer for the movie has now been released. It’s certainly wants to suggest this is going to be a fantastical, incredible looking movie, and as many have said, there’s more than a hint that Disney would like us to think of this as the new Alice In Wonderland.

It also interesting that they’ve kept the far distance looking oddly flat, which is presumably a nod to the pretty but painted on backgrounds of the classic 1939 Wizard Of Oz. However what’s more difficult to tell is whether the story is strong enough to compete with the visuals, and also whether the human characters can be fully integrated into a world that’s so reliant on special effects. We’ll have to keep out fingers crossed.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Disney’s fantastical adventure “Oz The Great and Powerful,” directed by Sam Raimi, imagines the origins of L. Frank Baum’s beloved character, the Wizard of Oz. When Oscar Diggs (James Franco), a small-time circus magician with dubious ethics, is hurled away from dusty Kansas to the vibrant Land of Oz, he thinks he’s hit the jackpot—fame and fortune are his for the taking—that is until he meets three witches, Theodora (Mila Kunis), Evanora (Rachel Weisz) and Glinda (Michelle Williams), who are not convinced he is the great wizard everyone’s been expecting. Reluctantly drawn into the epic problems facing the Land of Oz and its inhabitants, Oscar must find out who is good and who is evil before it is too late. Putting his magical arts to use through illusion, ingenuity—and even a bit of wizardry—Oscar transforms himself not only into the great and powerful Wizard of Oz but into a better man as well.’

It’s due out March 8th 2013.

CHECK OUT THESE RELATED ARCHIVES:
ACTORS: , , ,   DIRECTORS:   FILMS:   

The Host Trailer & Poster – Take a look at the Stephenie Meyer adaptation

By Leave a Comment


Twilight comes to an end this week with the release of Breaking Dawn Part 2, and so it’s a good time to launch the full length trailer for the next Stephenie Meyer adaptation, The Host, which is due to hit UK cinemas March 2013.

In The Host, our world has been invaded by an unseen enemy. Humans become hosts for these invaders, their minds taken over while their bodies remain intact. Most of humanity has succumbed, including Soarise Ronan’s main character, Melanie Stryder. However while normally the human is completely subdued by their host, in Melanie’s case, her personality flashes through, intriguing her Host, known as Wanda, and setting them off on a quest to find the last free humans. Ronan, Jake Abel, Max Irons and William Hurt star in the movie.

It’s difficult to see this taking over the world the way Twlight has, but it does look like it might be entertaining.

CHECK OUT THESE RELATED ARCHIVES:
ACTORS: , ,   DIRECTORS:   FILMS:   

Eight New Oz The Great & Powerful Pics Arrive

By Leave a Comment

March seems an odd time to release a great big fantasy movie like Oz The Great And Powerful, but Disney had great success at that time with Alice In Wonderland, and while the March release of John Carter didn’t work out so well, they’re sticking with it for Oz. As a result they’re really getting going on the marketing, to ensure everyone knows its coming before Sam Raimi’s movie hits cinemas.

Now a octet of new images from the movie have been released many of which come from USA Today, showing us beautiful witches and James Franco having a chat with a china doll. Oh, and there’s a monkey bellboy too! There are also four pics showing off the beautiful fantasy landscapes, suggesting this is going to be a very beautiful Oz.

The USA Today articles also has Raimi talking a little about the movie, saying, “[Franco’s character Oscar Diggs] is mistaken for Oz the Great and Powerful, destined to be the next king of Emerald City. But he’s only to receive that title if he can defeat the Wicked Witch.”

He also comments on the pic of Franco and the doll, “Everything in the land, the houses and people made of china, have been broken by the Wicked Witch and her army. Oscar find the pieces of this china doll and puts them together, and hence the China Girl (voiced by Joey King) is saved. He’s telling her she has to go back to the Emerald City, where she’ll be well taken care of. But she won’t have any of it. He’s going to learn by the end of this scene that he’s not the only huckster in the bunch.”

Franco stars alongside Michelle Williams, Mila Kunis and Rachel Weisz. Expect it in cinemas March 8th, and a new trailer is due soon. Click on the pics below for larger versions.

CHECK OUT THESE RELATED ARCHIVES:
ACTORS: , ,   DIRECTORS:   FILMS:   

Hitchcock: The Masterpiece Collection (Blu-ray)

By Leave a Comment

It’s nearly Christmas, so when you’re writing out your letter to Santa, this new Hitchcock box set should be right at the top. Of these 14 movies – including many of Hitchcock’s greatest movies – only Psycho has ever been out on Blu-ray before, so it really is a festival of first-time-in-HD movie goodness – although admittedly, with an RRP of £100 for the basic set and £150 for the Collector’s Edition, it doesn’t come cheap (that’s why you need Santa’s help).

The box includes Psycho, The Birds, Vertigo, Rear Window, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Marnie, Saboteur, Shadow of a Doubt, Rope, The Trouble with Harry, Torn Curtain, Topaz, Frenzy and Family Plot, which as I’m sure you’ll agree, is a pretty awesome selection. Although the likes of Torn Curtain and Family Plot may not be Hitchcock’s best, they’re still far better than what the vast majority of directors have ever produced. Indeed Hitchcock is that rare beast where you can pretty much guarantee that even if you don’t think a particular movie is a masterpiece, you’ll be entertained and certainly won’t think you’ve wasted your time. [Read more…]