New Queer Visions is an interesting idea. It’s a sort of bolt-on for film festivals, allowing them to showcase some of the most interesting and unusual slices of LGBT cinema around. In January it’s the London Short Film Festival, and as part of that there will be two New Queer Visions screenings on the 7th at Hackney’s Moth Club.
Starting at 4pm, Roots Manoeuvre features five shorts, with the blurb saying, ‘Whether it is escaping hate or establishing home, finding love or just plain travelling, the dilemma remains – what happens next? A panoply of questions are raised and not always answered in these diverse tales about crossing borders and identities taking shape.’
That’s followed at 6pm by A Special Relationship, which, ‘features British short films and their makers kickstarting a richly diverse series of shorts and documentaries by our friends from the US of A in an evening of anime, sharks and country music!’ With a hefty 12 LGBT shorts and some filmmaker Q&As it promises to be quite an evening.
Last year New Queer Visions also delved into the world of video on demand with the Filmdoo.com exclusive Lust In Translation. The plan is that some of the shorts screening as part of the New Queer Visions strand at the London Short Film Festival will be part of a new compilation that will be released later this year, although it’s not known which ones yet.
Take a look below to see which films will be screening, as well as a trailer for the very intriguing looking gay-themed animation, Arrival. [Read more…]
While David Lynch’s 1984 movie version of Dune is defended by some, most prefer to pretend the great director had never made it. However, with Frank Herbert’s books being some of the bestselling hard sci-fi novels ever, Hollywood has long thought they should be able to capitalise on its popularity.
Synopsis: ‘Jonathan is 23; he and his aunt, Martha, work on their farm. Jonathan also devotes himself to looking after his father Burghardt, who has cancer. But his father stubbornly sabotages all of his son’s efforts tp care for him. Jonathan finds it increasingly difficult to cope until they hire a young caretaker, Anka, to help. Jonathan and Anka fall in love; her experience of working at a hospice helps Jonathan to gain a new insight into his father’s situation.
It’s been easy to forget that in less than a year, DC/Warner will be really upping their game with Justice League, which will bring together the likes of Batman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Superman, Aquaman and Cyborg. To remind us, a new pic has arrived via EW, showing the first three of those superheroes lining up.
There will be plenty of new faces entering the world of Mary Poppins for Disney’s planned sequel, Mary Poppins Returns. However, one familiar face has confirmed he’ll appear in the movie.
In what is fast becoming a new Star Wars tradition, speculation has emerged that two of the male characters in Rogue One are in a relationship – although one that’s implied rather than shown. Some on the web have wondered whether the closeness between Chirrut Îmwe (Donnie Yen) and Baze Malbus (Jiang Wen) goes beyond friendship, and whether they’re actually gay.
Each year the Library Of Congress chooses 25 films for preservation, which it considers are important enough to cinema that they deserve special protection. This year’s movies have now been picked, and amongst the movies – some well known, others less so – is Paris Is Burning, Jennie Livingston’s 1990 documentary about the queer Ball Scene in New York.
Earlier this year it was suggested that Warner/DC was developing a follow-up to Suicide Squad centred on a female group of villains, known as the Gotham CIty Sirens, with Margot Robbie attached to return as Harley Quinn. That’s now been confirmed, along with the news that Suicide Squad’s director, David Ayer, is now attached to produce and helm the film, according to 
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It doesn’t look like things are going to be going well for the Autobots in Transformers: The Last Knight. The recent trailer showed Optimus Prime and Bumblebee fighting, and now the first poster shows Prime standing, sword in hand, standing over what looks to be the corpse of his yellow (former) friend.