After a brief tease yesterday, the first full trailer for Iron Man 3 is here and it’s keen to ensure we know this ain’t going to be an easy one for Tony Stark and there will be a lot of explosive action. We get to see Bem Kingsley’s devious Mandarin, our first proper look at Iron Patriot (who’s the star-spangled Iron Man) and Tony’s cliff-side house beating the dust. There have also been a slew of images and the first poster released, so you can take a look at those here too.
Here’s the synopsis: ‘Marvel’s “Iron Man 3” pits brash-but-brilliant industrialist Tony Stark/Iron Man against an enemy whose reach knows no bounds. When Stark finds his personal world destroyed at his enemy’s hands, he embarks on a harrowing quest to find those responsible. This journey, at every turn, will test hismettle. With his back against the wall, Stark is left to survive by his owndevices, relying on his ingenuity and instincts to protect those closest tohim. As he fights his way back, Stark discovers the answer to the question that has secretly haunted him: does the man make the suit or does the suit make the man?
‘Starring Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Rebecca Hall, Stephanie Szostak, James Badge Dale with Jon Favreau and Ben Kingsley,“Iron Man 3” is directed by Shane Black from a screenplay by Drew Pearce and Shane Black and is based on Marvel’s iconic Super Hero Iron Man, who first appeared on the pages of “Tales of Suspense” (#39) in 1963 and had his solo comic book debut with “The Invincible Iron Man” (#1) in May of 1968.’ It’ll reach the UK next April.
A decade of so ago, Rupert Everett said he wanted to play a gay James Bond-type character, but that movie never emerged, and 007 himself has stayed resolutely heterosexual (indeed, in Ian Fleming’s books he can even convert lesbians, turning Pussy Galore straight after a roll in the hay in Goldfinger). However in Skyfall, Daniel Craig gets to show off his metrosexual side, by flirting with Javier Bardem’s villainous Silva.
Broken hearts and burnt out staff: was this to be the finale? The five day long festival was coming to a grand close, having already achieved its promise of being bigger and better than ever before. The toll of late night partying was evident on the faces of the filmmakers: the social side of the Iris Prize Festival was worth the flight over for many of those coming from far afield. There was gossip and speculation aplenty as the champagne reception in Cardiff’s Park Inn Hotel got the festival spirit flowing again. The staff and organisers had somehow tapped into hidden reserves of energy, with the media buzz still electric and the day running silky smooth. 
The Iris Prize Festival in Cardiff is over for another year (expect more coverage from us in the next few days, looking at what went on), and the winner of the main awards has been announced. The Iris Prize is notable for being the largest LGBT short film prize in the world, offering the winner not just a pat on the back, but also support and funding for their next short film (worth £25,000).
As well as the shorts, the five day festival also included eight of the latest gay and lesbian feature films, which all enjoyed their UK premieres at the festival. These movies included Yossi, Gayby, Sex Of Angels and Joshua Tree 1951: A Portrait Of James Dean.
The Iris Prize Festival, the world’s largest LGBT-themed short film prize, has kicked off in Cardiff, and we’re going to be reporting from the event which runs October 10th-14th. The festival shows a mix of shorts and feature films, ending with the Iris Prize, where one lucky filmmaker is given funding and support for their next short film.
A story has been doing the round recently about Hong Kong billionaire Cecil Chao, who’s offered a hefty $65 million reward to any man who marries his daughter, even though she’s a lesbian who lives in France with her wife (and has even has the relationship blessed by a French church).
Beauty, or Skoonheid as it’s known in its native South Africa, takes a dark look at how mentally scarring sexual repression can be, and does so in an excellently compelling and disturbing way (