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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

Brokeback Mountain (DVD)

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In the 1960s, Ennis Del Mar and Jack Twist get a job shepherding on Wyoming’s Brokeback Mountain. Slowly they fall in love, starting a 30-year relationship that endures through their marriages and attempts to stay apart. Jack wants to be with Ennis full time, but the taciturn cowboy is too scared of that, which only allows them brief ‘fishing’ holidays in the wilderness. Even so, they just can’t quit each other. [Read more…]

I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry (DVD)

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When red tape prevents firefighter Larry from naming his kids as his pension beneficiaries, he asks friend and colleague Chuck to pretend to be his domestic partner in order to get around the bureaucracy. However their charade gets increasingly complicated.

I’ve got a high horse and I’m going to get on it. Universal may have screened I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry to GLAAD (the Gay And Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) and other gay groups to try and prove it wasn’t homophobic, but you can’t get around the fact that it trades on every homosexual stereotype imaginable. [Read more…]

Crush Of The Day: Kevin Bishop In May I Kill You

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Aww, look at him on his little bike. That’s Kevin Bishop above in one of the first pics from the new Brit flick May I Kill You, in which he plays a cycling vigilante cop who has his own way of dealing with London’s ‘scum’. Set against the backdrop of the recent London riots (recreated in Wimbledon). Take a look at some more pics from the movie below. [Read more…]

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Neil Patrick Harris Proud Of Partner’s Performance

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The title of this post may sound as if Neil Patrick Harris is sharing too much about his sex life, but it’s actually an acting performance he’s talking about. Harris is reprising his role as an alternate, womanising, drug-taking version of himself in the new Harold & Kumar movie, A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas.

The movie also has a role for his partner, David Burtka, in a surprising cameo, and it marks the first time the duo have acted together. While talking to Access Hollywood, Harris commented, “We don’t really act together. We just live together and we certainly exist together, like all the time, but acting… it was weird, because we just exist on a different level. I’m very proud of him and I think he came across very well in the movie. He’s a funny guy.” (Source: Advocate)

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Two New Terrence Malick Flicks Announced

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A few weeks ago some images popped up online of Terrence Malick (The Tree Of Life) shooting a film with Christian Bale at the Austin City Limits festival. It was a bit of a surprise as nobody knew anything about the movie, and Bale was supposed to be shooting Dark Knight Rises at the time.

Now it’s been revealed what they were up to, well, sort of. While Malick is renowned for his slow pace of work – five films in 38 years – he’s speeding up massively as Variety says he’s planning to make two movies, both starring Bale and Cate Blanchett (that’s in addition to The Burial, which features Ben Affleck, Rachel McAdams, Javier Bardem and Rachel Weisz, which he’s already shot).

The film that was partially filmed at the festival will be called Lawless and has a great cast besides Bale and Blanchett, with Ryan Gosling in the lead role, alongside Rooney Mara and Haley Bennett. The other movie is titled Knight Of Cup, and will also feature Isabel Lucas.

That’s all the info we’ve got unfortunately, which leaves a lot of questions open. There’s no news on the plots, but the most intriguing possibility is that the movies will be linked together. The films will shoot back-to-back next year, and it would seem more than possible therefore that Bale and Blanchett will be playing the same characters in both movies. Whether that true is yet to be revealed.

Malick loves dripping everything in secrecy, and the only reason we know this much is because the company behind the films is looking for sales at the American Film Market. So while it’s all incredibly intriguing, don’t expect everything to become clear for a while yet.

 

General movie news courtesy of Movie Muser

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Shame Trailer

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Shame has certainly got a lot of buzz surrounding it, both from enthusastic film festival audiences and from the fact its US distributor has taken the unusual step of embracing the movie’s NC-17 rating (due to sexual content), rather than trying to cut it or release it unrated. In the movie Brandon (Michael Fassbender) is a New Yorker who shuns intimacy with women but feeds his desires with a compulsive addiction to sex. When his wayward younger sister (Carey Mulligan) moves into his apartment stirring memories of their shared painful past, Brandon’s insular life spirals out of control. It’ll be in UK cinemas January 12th, but take a look at the new trailer.

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American Reunion Trailer

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Will Stifler’s mom get it on with Jim’s dad? That’s the question people will be asking after they watch this new trailer for American Reunion! However it also reintroduces us to all the rest of the old American Pie gang, most of whom are now all grown up and more staid than in their teen years, but that’s all likely to change when they get back together for a high school reunion. The film will be in UK cinemas April 6th, 2012.

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James Franco On For Spring Breakers

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There seems something rather fitting about the idea of the free-spirited and experimental James Franco signing up to star in a movie by the slightly nutty Harmony Korine (Gummo, Mister Lonely, Trash Humpers). That said, with Emma Roberts also possibly coming on-board, it would appear Korine’s got a slightly bigger budget this time around and presumably therefore won’t be making anything quite as strange as some of his earlier work.

Variety has the news and says the film is about, ‘four college-aged girls who rob a fast food restaurant to afford spring break in Florida, only to get arrested upon their arrival… Alien, a rapping drug and arms dealer, bails them out and entices them to kill his arch-rival, a murderer who is appropriately named Arch.’ For most people that would be edgy, but for Korine it’s actually a little tame!

Franco would play the rapping drug dealer (a part he’s mentioned before, while not giving away any more details than that) while Roberts, who’s in early talks, would be Candy, a Southern brunette who feeds off danger.

Is Korine going mainstream? It happens to a lot of edgy directors as the get older, but hopefully he’ll be able to get a wider audience without completely giving up on the edge that made people take notice of him in the first place.

General movie news courtesy of Movie Muser

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Amanda Seyfried Up For Lovelace

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For a couple of years now there have been two rival movies about hardcore porn actress turned anti-smut activist Linda Lovelace in the works, but neither have actually got to the point where they’ve been ready to go in front of the cameras.

Actresses such as Olivia Wilde, Malin Akerman, Kate Hudson and Lindsay Lohan have flirted with playing the porn star (Lohan was essentially fired as they couldn’t get insurance for her), but now Amanda Seyfried has entered talks to play the role in Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman’s (Howl) take on Lovelace’s life.

Variety also reports that Peter Sarsgaard is also in talks to join the film, playing Chuck Traynor, Linda Lovelace’s husband and porn director. Linda Lovelace is a fascinating figure far beyond the titilation of being the star of one of the best known porn films in history – Deep Throat. Initially appearing in hardcore (and even bestiality) movies, at first Lovelace seemed to revel in her status. However during her divorce from Chuck Traynor in the late 70s, she claimed that he was violent and had forced her into pornography at gunpoint (with some evidence to back her up).

She said that her marriage was plagued with beatings and rape, and that when she appeared in porn, it was basically enforced prostitution. While there have been some disagreements as to the extent Lovelace was a willing participant in her porn career (her assertions that everything was coerced have been questioned by many who were there at the time), there seems little doubt that her marriage to Traynor was viscious and cruel.

She then became an anti-pornography champion, speaking at public events and testifying at government hearings on pornography. However she later said she felt used by the anti-pornography movement, which got a lot mileage out of having Lovelace as a convert, but which never helped her out. She died in a car accident in 2002.

Epstein and Friedman (Howl) will direct from a screenplay by Merritt Johnson and Andy Bellin, which is adapted from Eric Danville’s book, The Complete Linda Lovelace. Production is finally scheduled to begin in January, around the same time as the rival movie – Inferno: A Linda Lovelace Story – will start filming, with Malin Akerman in the lead role.

General movie news courtesy of Movie Muser

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Steve Carell Has Conviction

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People generally expect Steve Carell to be funny. Even if he gets a tad serious, they still expect to be able to have a smile on their face. He seems to be taking that seriously, as he’s just signed up for Conviction, which started out as action drama, but Deadline reports wi.ll now become an action comedy to better fit Carell.

Jonathan Herman wrote the original screenplay, which was a heist drama about a bank robber serving five years in prison, who is forced to give up his protege to the feds. That draft, which was compared to Heat, is being scrapped. Warner Bros. is seeking a new writer to turn it into an action comedy, although quite how it’s going to be funny and still be about giving up your protege to the government is anyone’s guess. The new take is said to be more like 48 Hours and Ocean’s Eleven.

It’s often difficult to understand why someone would board a project when they basically want to change everything about it, but it happens a lot in Hollywood. Hopefully though it’ll all work out here.

General movie news courtesy of Movie Muser

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Oren Peli Producing New Horror

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When Oren Peli made Paranormal Acitvity, in his wildest dreams he can’t have imagined the success it would become. However the helmer himself hasn’t had anything he’s directed in cinemas since his standout success. He shot another found footage flick shortly after Paranormal Activity came out, Area 51, but there’s still no sign of that. However he did produce Insidious, and is now producing another movie that’s just started shooting, which he also came up with the story for.

FilmNation Entertainment is backing the currently untitled film, which has commenced principal photography in Eastern Europe. The film is based on an original story by Oren Peli (Paranormal Activity, Insidious) and centres on a group of friends who become stranded in an eerie and desolate city. Abandoned years before in the aftermath of a nuclear disaster, nature has begun to reclaim everything. As the sun sets on this radioactive ghost town, inhuman cries cut through the night air. It seems they are not alone. The ensemble cast includes Jonathan Sadowski, Devin Kelley, Jesse McCartney, Olivia Dudley, Nathan Phillips, Ingrid Bolsø Berdal and Dimitri Diatchenko. Brad Parker is directing.

Peli says, “I love my job. I get to work with a talented director like Brad on the kind of scary movie I know I’d happily stand in line to see.” The movie is due in cinemas in 2013.

General movie news courtesy of Movie Muser

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Colin Farrell Joins Dragon Tattoo Director’s Film

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Niels Arden Oplev made a bit of a splash with his Scandinavian version of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, but it’s taken him a while to sort out his follow-up. Now things are coming together, with THR reporting that he’ll helm Dead Man Down, and that Colin Farrell and Noomi Rapace will star.

The $30 million action thriller, written by J.H. Wyman (Fringe, The Mexican), is a tale of vengeance, with Colin Farrell playing Victor, right hand man to an underground crime lord in New York City who is seduced and blackmailed by Beatrice (Rapace), a crime victim seeking retribution. Their intense chemistry leads them spiraling into payback delivered in violent catharsis.

Dead Man Down is scheduled to start shooting in early 2012.

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