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

New Avengers Assemble Trailer Kicks Ass

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Yesterday The Avenger got a new title in the UK, Avengers Assemble, and the promise that at 5pm today, we’d be getting a new trailer. Well, it’s now here and it absolutely kicks ass! Here’s the official synopsis: ‘Marvel Studios presents “Marvel Avengers Assemble”—the Super Hero team up of a lifetime, featuring iconic Marvel Super Heroes Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Thor, Captain America, Hawkeye and Black Widow. When an unexpected enemy emerges that threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury, Director of the international peacekeeping agency known as S.H.I.E.L.D., finds himself in need of a team to pull the world back from the brink of disaster. Spanning the globe, a daring recruitment effort begins.

‘Starring Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner and Samuel L. Jackson, and directed by Joss Whedon, “Marvel Avengers Assemble” is based on the ever-popular Marvel comic book series “The Avengers,” first published in 1963 and a comics institution ever since. Prepare yourself for an exciting event movie, packed with action and spectacular special effects, when “Marvel Avengers Assemble” hits UK cinemas on April 26, 2012.’ Take a look at the trailer and tell me this doesn’t look awesome?

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Avengers Gets A New Name And A New Poster To Prove It

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Marvel’s The Avengers is no more, in the UK at least, as with less than two months before its release, the movie has a new title. So what’s it going to be called? Well, distributor Disney has revealed it’ll be known as Marvel Avengers Assemble in Britain, and they’ve released the poster above to prove it.

An Avengers assemble trailer is promised tomorrow afternoon, which will hopefully be packed with cool footage. The new title seems to have been adopted because casual moviegoers were wondering if it was another remake of 1960s Avengers TV show.

Just one question though, why in the poster is Chris Evans about 25ft tall?

Here’s the amended official synopsis: ‘Marvel Studios presents “Marvel Avengers Assemble”—the Super Hero team up of a lifetime, featuring iconic Marvel Super Heroes Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Thor, Captain America, Hawkeye and Black Widow. When an unexpected enemy emerges that threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury, Director of the international peacekeeping agency known as S.H.I.E.L.D., finds himself in need of a team to pull the world back from the brink of disaster. Spanning the globe, a daring recruitment effort begins.

Starring Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner and Samuel L. Jackson, and directed by Joss Whedon, “Marvel Avengers Assemble” is based on the ever-popular Marvel comic book series “The Avengers,” first published in 1963 and a comics institution ever since. Prepare yourself for an exciting event movie, packed with action and spectacular special effects, when “Marvel Avengers Assemble” hits UK cinemas on April 26, 2012.’

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Win A This Means War Goodie Bag – T-shirt, notebook & phone protector

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This Means War hits cinemas this Friday, March 2nd, and to celebrate, 20th Century Fox has sent us a goodie bags containing great movie merchandise from the movie, and we’re giving it away to you guys.

The film stars Tom Hardy & Chris Pine as two of the world’s top secret agents, who are best friends and never let anything come between them – until they inadvertently fall for the same woman (Reese Witherspoon). Soon it’s all-out war, as the two spies battle each other with high-tech surveillance, advanced tactics, and an arsenal capable of bringing down a small country.

Our goodie bags contain a This Means War t-shirt, a rather natty notebook and a phone screen protector (to ensure it doesn’t get scratched when you’re using all your CIA spying skills to snare the woman or man you love). If you’d like to try and win our This Means War Goodie bag, answer the question below and fill in your details, then press submit! The competition closes on March 11th, so get answering and good luck!

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The Artist Cleans Up At The Oscars

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As expected, The Artist was the big winner at the Oscars, picking up Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor among its five awards. As it’s a love letter to Hollywood, it’s not surprising the Academy loved the movie.

Hugo also picked up five awards, although they were all in technical categories such as Visual Effects and Sound Mixing. It’s been suggested that this reflects how if it weren’t for The Artist, Hugo would have swept the board.

Other major awards included Meryl Streep picking up her third Oscar for The Iron Lady, while in the Supporting Actor and Actress Category, Christopher Plummer did the LGBT representation at the Oscars proud, winning for playing an elderly gay man in Beginners, while an emotional Octavia Spencer scored a much deserved  award for The Help. Plummer becomes the oldest ever acting Oscar winner at 82, outdoing Jessica Tandy, who picked up her Best Actress Oscar for Driving Miss Daisy when she was 80.

Woody Allen won another Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for Midnight In Paris, while The Descendants picked up the best Adapted Screenplay award.

Take a look below for all the winners in all categories.

84th Annual Academy Awards Winners:

Best Picture
Winner: ‘The Artist’ Thomas Langmann, Producer
‘The Descendants’ Jim Burke, Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor, Producers
‘Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close’ Scott Rudin, Producer
‘The Help’ Brunson Green, Chris Columbus and Michael Barnathan, Producers
‘Hugo’ Graham King and Martin Scorsese, Producers
‘Midnight in Paris’ Letty Aronson and Stephen Tenenbaum, Producers
‘Moneyball’ Michael De Luca, Rachael Horovitz and Brad Pitt, Producers
‘The Tree of Life’ Sarah Green, Bill Pohlad, Dede Gardner, Grant Hill
‘War Horse’ Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy, Producers

Directing
Winner: ‘The Artist’ Michel Hazanavicius
‘The Descendants’ Alexander Payne
‘Hugo’ Martin Scorsese
‘Midnight in Paris’ Woody Allen
‘The Tree of Life’ Terrence Malick

Actor in a Leading Role
Demián Bichir in ‘A Better Life’
George Clooney in ‘The Descendants’
Winner: Jean Dujardin in ‘The Artist’
Gary Oldman in ‘Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy’
Brad Pitt in ‘Moneyball’

Actor in a Supporting Role
Kenneth Branagh in ‘My Week with Marilyn’
Jonah Hill in ‘Moneyball’
Nick Nolte in ‘Warrior’
Winner: Christopher Plummer in ‘Beginners’
Max von Sydow in ‘Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close’

Actress in a Leading Role
Glenn Close in ‘Albert Nobbs’
Viola Davis in ‘The Help’
Rooney Mara in ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’
Winner: Meryl Streep in ‘The Iron Lady’
Michelle Williams in ‘My Week with Marilyn’

Actress in a Supporting Role
Bérénice Bejo in ‘The Artist’
Jessica Chastain in ‘The Help’
Melissa McCarthy in ‘Bridesmaids’
Janet McTeer in ‘Albert Nobbs’
Winner: Octavia Spencer in ‘The Help’

Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
Winner: ‘The Descendants’ Screenplay by Alexander Payne and Nat Faxon & Jim Rash
‘Hugo’ Screenplay by John Logan
‘The Ides of March’ Screenplay by George Clooney & Grant Heslov and Beau Willimon
‘Moneyball’ Screenplay by Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin Story by Stan Chervin
‘Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy’ Screenplay by Bridget O’Connor & Peter Straughan

Writing (Original Screenplay)
‘The Artist’ Written by Michel Hazanavicius
‘Bridesmaids’ Written by Annie Mumolo & Kristen Wiig
‘Margin Call’ Written by J.C. Chandor
Winner: ‘Midnight in Paris’ Written by Woody Allen
‘A Separation’ Written by Asghar Farhadi

Animated Feature Film
‘A Cat in Paris’ Alain Gagnol and Jean-Loup Felicioli
‘Chico & Rita’ Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal
‘Kung Fu Panda 2’ Jennifer Yuh Nelson
‘Puss in Boots’ Chris Miller
Winner: ‘Rango’ Gore Verbinski

Art Direction
‘The Artist’ Production Design: Laurence Bennett; Set Decoration: Robert Gould
‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2’ Production Design: Stuart Craig; Set Decoration: Stephenie McMillan
Winner: ‘Hugo’ Production Design: Dante Ferretti; Set Decoration: Francesca Lo Schiavo
‘Midnight in Paris’ Production Design: Anne Seibel; Set Decoration: Hélène Dubreuil
‘War Horse’ Production Design: Rick Carter; Set Decoration: Lee Sandales

Cinematography
‘The Artist’ Guillaume Schiffman
‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’ Jeff Cronenweth
Winner: ‘Hugo’ Robert Richardson
‘The Tree of Life’ Emmanuel Lubezki
‘War Horse’ Janusz Kaminski

Costume Design
‘Anonymous’ Lisy Christl
Winner: ‘The Artist’ Mark Bridges
‘Hugo’ Sandy Powell
‘Jane Eyre’ Michael O’Connor
‘W.E.’ Arianne Phillips

Documentary (Feature)
‘Hell and Back Again’ Danfung Dennis and Mike Lerner
‘If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front’ Marshall Curry and Sam Cullman
‘Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory’ Charles Ferguson and Audrey Marrs
‘Pina’ Wim Wenders and Gian-Piero Ringel
Winner: ‘Undefeated’ TJ Martin, Dan Lindsay and Richard Middlemas

Documentary (Short Subject)
‘The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldier of the Civil Rights Movement’ Robin Fryday and Gail Dolgin
‘God Is the Bigger Elvis’ Rebecca Cammisa and Julie Anderson
‘Incident in New Baghdad’ James Spione
Winner: ‘Saving Face’ Daniel Junge and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy
‘The Tsunami and the Cherry Blossom’ Lucy Walker and Kira Carstensen

Film Editing
‘The Artist’ Anne-Sophie Bion and Michel Hazanavicius
‘The Descendants’ Kevin Tent
Winner: ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’ Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall
‘Hugo’ Thelma Schoonmaker
‘Moneyball’ Christopher Tellefsen

Foreign Language Film
‘Bullhead’ Belgium
‘Footnote’ Israel
‘In Darkness’ Poland
‘Monsieur Lazhar’ Canada
Winner: ‘A Separation’ Iran

Makeup
‘Albert Nobbs’ Martial Corneville, Lynn Johnston and Matthew W. Mungle
‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2’ Edouard F. Henriques, Gregory Funk and Yolanda Toussieng
Winner: ‘The Iron Lady’ Mark Coulier and J. Roy Helland

Music (Original Score)
‘The Adventures of Tintin’ John Williams
Winner: ‘The Artist’ Ludovic Bource
‘Hugo’ Howard Shore
‘Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy’ Alberto Iglesias
‘War Horse’ John Williams

Music (Original Song)
Winner: ‘Man or Muppet’ from ‘The Muppets’ Music and Lyric by Bret McKenzie
‘Real in Rio’ from ‘Rio’ Music by Sergio Mendes and Carlinhos Brown Lyric by Siedah Garrett

Short Film (Animated)
‘Dimanche/Sunday’ Patrick Doyon
Winner: ‘The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore’ William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg
‘La Luna’ Enrico Casarosa
‘A Morning Stroll’ Grant Orchard and Sue Goffe
‘Wild Life’ Amanda Forbis and Wendy Tilby

Short Film (Live Action)
‘Pentecost’ Peter McDonald and Eimear O’Kane
‘Raju’ Max Zähle and Stefan Gieren
Winner: ‘The Shore’ Terry George and Oorlagh George
‘Time Freak’ Andrew Bowler and Gigi Causey
‘Tuba Atlantic’ Hallvar Witzø

Sound Editing
‘Drive’ Lon Bender and Victor Ray Ennis
‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’ Ren Klyce
Winner: ‘Hugo’ Philip Stockton and Eugene Gearty
‘Transformers: Dark of the Moon’ Ethan Van der Ryn and Erik Aadahl
‘War Horse’ Richard Hymns and Gary Rydstrom

Sound Mixing
‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’ David Parker, Michael Semanick, Ren Klyce and Bo Persson
Winner: ‘Hugo’ Tom Fleischman and John Midgley
‘Moneyball’ Deb Adair, Ron Bochar, Dave Giammarco and Ed Novick
‘Transformers: Dark of the Moon’ Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers, Jeffrey J. Haboush and Peter J. Devlin
‘War Horse’ Gary Rydstrom, Andy Nelson, Tom Johnson and Stuart Wilson

Visual Effects
‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2’ Tim Burke, David Vickery, Greg Butler and John Richardson
Winner: ‘Hugo’ Rob Legato, Joss Williams, Ben Grossman and Alex Henning
‘Real Steel’ Erik Nash, John Rosengrant, Dan Taylor and Swen Gillberg
‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes’ Joe Letteri, Dan Lemmon, R. Christopher White and Daniel Barrett
‘Transformers: Dark of the Moon’ Scott Farrar, Scott Benza, Matthew Butler and John Frazier

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2012 London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival Programme Announced

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North Sea Texas

After revealing a couple of weeks ago that the BFI London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival would open with Cloudburst, starring Oscar-winners Olympia Dukakis and Brenda Fricker, the British Film Institute has now revealed the full festival line-up.

The festival runs from from 23rd March-1st April and will offer a varied programme of feature films, special events, shorts, archive classics, experimental and erotic works. While it will open with Cloudburst, it’s now been revealed that the Festival will close with Bavo Defurne’s North Sea Texas, a compelling tale of teenage longing set in a Belgian coastal town.

There are also two centrepiece screenings of powerful, award-winning dramas. Circumstance is an affecting account of a lesbian coming-of-age in contemporary Tehran, which won the Audience Award at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, while Absent is the unpredictable tale of a 16-year-old’s attempt to get close to his teacher, which won the Teddy Award at the 2011 Berlin Film Festival.

Other highlights on the programme include The Perfect Family, starring Kathleen Turner as a Catholic woman coming to terms with her daughter’s sexuality, while Gun Hill Road tells the story of an ex-con struggling to accept that his teenage son is transitioning to female, and features a strong performance by young trans actor Harmony Santana.

There’ll also be an eclectic programme of special events, such as Brian Lobel and Aaron Wright’s Cruising for Art, which is a film-themed participatory theatre project. Transgender Representation – Are We Nearly There Yet? will look at the last five years of trans film and television, while Families Like Ours features films that discuss LGBT parenting from the point of view of parents, pupils and teachers.

After budget cuts last year, a wave of popular and industry support has ensured a renewed commitment to the festival’s future, with the 2012 programme 30% larger than the 2011 event, consisting of 53 features and 67 shorts.

You can find the full programme here (click for PDF), which also includes screening of the much praised lesbian drama Pariah, as well as classics with gay themes such as Spartacus and Suddenly Last Summer.

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New Wrath Of The Titans Trailer

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A couple of year ago Sam Worthington’s Perseus clashed with the Titans, and now he’s going to feel their wrath with the sequel to the Greek mythological hit arrives in cinemas on March 30th. Now a new trailer has popped up over at Yahoo! and we’ve embedded it here. The trailer certainly is action packed, and we’ll just have to hope the action makes more sense than it did in Clash Of The Titans. This time around Perseus embarks on a treacherous quest into the underworld to rescue Zeus, who has been targeted for capture by his traitorous son, Ares, and his brother, Hades. Enjoy the mythological madness below.

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Beauty (Skoonheid) Trailer – Winner of the Queer Palm at Cannes

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Winner of the Queer Palm at the Cannes Film Festival 2011 and officially selected for 55th BFI London Film Festival, Oliver Hermanus’ provocative Beauty is due to be released in UK by Peccadillo Pictures on 20th April, but to prepare us, the trailer has now dropped.
Here’s the synopsis: ‘Francois (Deon Lotz) lives a skillfully controlled, well managed life, in Bloemfontein, South Africa’s so-called ‘City of Roses’. He’s a devoted husband and father, but constantly battling with his repressed desires. However, when he meets Christian (Charlie Keegan), the engaging, handsome son of a long-lost friend, his obsessions become irrepressible and threaten to rip apart his long-maintained respectability.
‘BEAUTY contains powerful scenes that recall A Ma Soeur, Mysterious Skin and the cinema of Michael Haneke, the challenging the viewer with its unflinching exploration of social taboos in the conservative environment of contemporary South Africa that also have universal resonance.’
Hmmm, certainly sounds like one to look out for when it arrives in UK cinemas in April.
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Win Doogie Howser M.D. – Season 1 DVD Box Sets!

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For a certain generation, it doesn’t matter what else Neil Patrick Harris ever does, he will always be teenage doctor Doogie Howser M.D.. If you fancy revisiting the late-80s/early 90s series, or if you just want to see for the first time what Neil did as a youngster, Doogie Howser – Season 1 hits DVD in the UK on February 20th, but we’ve got two copies of the 26-episode box set to give away.

Before he became an openly gay hero and the star of hit sitcoms and Smurfy movies, Neil Patrick Harris was16-year-old doctor Doogie, who has to deal with all the usual teen problems, as well as sorting out the surgical issues of LA’s unhealthiest citizens.

If you’d like to try and win one of the two copies of Doogie Howser M.D. – Season 1 that we’ve got to give away, answer the question below and fill in your details, then press submit! The competition closes on February 29th, so get answering and good luck!

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Matt Bomer Publicly Acknowledges His Male Partner

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Okay, we’ve got good news and bad news. The good news is that Matt Bomer, star of TV’s White Collar and possibly the most effortlessly handsome man in Hollywood, has acknowledged at an awards ceremony that he bats for our team. The bad news for those of you who are already working out how you can profess your love to him, is that he’s already got a longtime partner and even some kids.

Bomer received the New Generation Arts and Activism Award for his work in the fight against HIV/AIDS at the Steve Chase Humanitarian Awards on Saturday night and ended his speech he said, ‘I’d really especially like to thank my beautiful family: Simon, Kit, Walker, Henry. Thank you for teaching me what unconditional love is. You will always be my proudest accomplishment.’

‘Simon’ is his longtime partner, publicist Simon Halls.

It’s worth noting that Bomer has never denied he was gay and his sexuality was pretty much an open secret in Hollywood. He just hasn’t felt the need to shout about it. His ‘coming out’ was similar to Jodie Foster, who has never publicly said she’s a lesbian, but referred to her longtime partner, ‘my beautiful Cydney [Bernard]’ in an awards acceptance speech a few years ago (let’s hope thing go better for Matt than for Jodie, as she and Cyndney split up shortly afterwards).

It’s also the second time in the last few months that a Hollywood celeb has not only acknowledged their sexuality, but also revealed they’ve got kids. Firefly actor Sean Maher did the same not long ago.

With Matt, Sean and Zachary Quinto, the gayborhood has certainly become a much prettier place recently. It’s also nice that after years where coming out always seemed to mean front page stories and tell-all interviews in newspapers and magazines, actors can now do it quietly and carry on living their lives and getting on with their careers.

For those who’d like to see more of Matt, he’ll be playing a male stripper in Magic Mike this summer, alongside Channing Tatum, Matthew McConaughey and Alex Pettyfer.

Footage of Matt getting his award is below, and thanks to Towleroad for the tip.

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Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter Teaser Trailer Arrives

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I think it’s fair to say the assumption has been that Timur Bekmambetov’s Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter would just be a little bit of fluffy, mid-scale summer fun, but now the first teaser trailer is here and it shows the film may be a bit more epic than anyone expected. But then, as Bekmambetov owns his own effects studio, it’s perhaps not surprising it looks pretty spectacular.

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter reimagines the American president as an axe-wielding, highly trained vampire hunter. Seth Grahame-Smith’s book, on which the movie will be based, gives new context to Lincoln’s rise to the presidency as well as the American Civil War (which was fought because the vampires were in league with the slave owners), suggesting these events were a lot more paranormal than history tells us, and stemmed from Lincoln’s mother’s murder by a vampire when he was a child.

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