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

Eddie Redmayne Joins Les Miserables

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After so many years of people trying and failing to get a film version of the Les Miserables musical off the ground, it’s hard to believe it’s really happening, but it is. Now the the cast has grown once more, with Deadline reporting that Eddie Redmayne is joining Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe and Anne Hathaway in the film.

The Pillars Of The Earth actor will portray Marius, a role that’s been played on stage by everyone from Michael Ball to, um, Jon from S Club 7.  Les Miserables is set in the revolutionary France and revolves around Jean Valjean (Hugh Jackman), who must carry a yellow passport branding him as an ex-convict after being released from a 19-year prison sentence. Russell Crowe will be Inspector Javert, a policeman who keeps pursuing Jean Valjean, even though he is a free man. Anne Hathaway plays the female lead, Fantine.

Marius meanwhile is a student revolutionary who falls for Valjean’s adpoted daughter, Cosette.

Tom Hooper (The King’s Speech) is directing Les Miserables from a screenplay by William Nicholson. Production is expected to start fairly soon.

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The Gay Bed & Breakfast Of Terror (DVD)

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On the eve of a major LGBT blowout, five gay and lesbian couples book into the Sahara Salvation Inn. However, rather that being the gay hotel it purports to be, it’s actually run by a psychotic family, led by a harridan mother who hates all homosexuals and will kill any gay men who refuse marry her nymphomaniac lesbian daughter. She also has a Republican mutant son, who seems to be more of a feral creature than a person, and likes to eat homosexuals. As a result all the hotel guests are fighting for their lives before the night is out. [Read more…]

Breakfast With Scot (DVD)

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After 11-year-old Scot’s mother dies of an overdose, he’s sent to live with gay couple Eric and Sam until his new guardian (Sam’s brother) comes to pick him up. Closeted ex-ice hockey star Eric isn’t entirely sure what to do with this interloper into his well-ordered life, especially as the kid’s love of musicals and feather boas means he seems ‘gayer’ than either of the men looking after him. Slowly Eric has to come to terms with having a kid in his life, while Scot starts to change in order to fit with Eric’s more typically manly idea of how he ought to be acting. [Read more…]

The Big Gay Musical (DVD)

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Paul and Eddie are preparing for the opening of a new off-Broadway musical called ‘Adam & Steve – Just The Way God Made Them’, in which they star. The show takes the Bible and turns it on its head, making it a story of how through the ages religion has tried to control and stamp out homosexuality. Outside the show, Paul and Eddie find their lives somewhat mirroring the musical, with Paul deciding  to stop desperately attempting to settle down and try out being a slut, while Eddie has a shock when he discovers his parents are coming to the opening of the show. He’s severely closeted and hasn’t told them he’s gay, but as he opens up to the idea of expressing his sexuality, he takes a few unnecessary risks. [Read more…]

The Art Of Being Straight (DVD)

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The Art Of Being Straight is one of those movies that just sort of happens. There’s nothing actually wrong with it, but it merely drifts along and then stops, rather than offering you any reason to engage with it.

Jon (played by writer/director Jesse Rosen) is on a break from his girlfriend and decides to move from New York to LA, and take a room with his old college buddy and his macho mates, who are the kind of jocks that can’t complete a sentence without using the word gay as a pejorative (although their homophobia is unthinking rather than genuine hatred). [Read more…]

I Love You Phillip Morris (DVD)

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It took quite a long time for I Love You Phillip Morris to make it to UK cinemas, partly because it’s a bit of a tough sell. It’s a film that moves from broad comedy to deeply felt drama, doesn’t shy away from the gay side of its story, and makes a hero out of a man who in most cases would be seen as the bad guy. However despite all these difficulties, the movie succeeds admirably. [Read more…]

Taylor Lautner Teams With Gus Van Sant For New Film

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There’s been a fair amount of talk about whether Taylor Lautner will have much of a career post Twilight. Few people were that interested in him in Abduction, and while he has a slew of other projects lined up, the jury’s still out on whether Lautner can escape Jacob.

However it appears he’s making a fairly smart move by helping to put together a small indie movie with a lauded director, which could help prove to naysayers he’s actually a decent actor.

THR reports that Taylor is currently in toalks to star in a low-budget flick for Good Will Hunting and Milk helmer Gus Van Sant. Details about the movie are a little sketchy, with not much more known than it’s based on a New Yorker article that Lautner has optioned and will probably shoot early next year. It’s not even known who’s writing the script.

It could be a very smart move on Lautner’s part as he tries to prove he’s not just a one franchise wonder.

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Bruno (DVD)

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I’m feeling conflicted. On the one hand Sacha Baron Cohen’s follow-up to Borat is very funny but on the other after watching the movie I couldn’t help but feel a bit uncomfortable, and not because of the way it sets up fame-whoring idiots and unsuspecting homophobes.

The basic plot is that Bruno is an arch, camp, Austrian fashionista with his own TV show, however after a disastrous accidental appearance at a fashion show dressed in a Velcro jumpsuit, he gets Schwartz-listed so he won’t be able to attend any more events. [Read more…]

Milk (Blu-ray)

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Only a few years ago, the idea of Hollywood making a movie almost completely peopled by gay characters would have been virtually unthinkable. However it seems Brokeback Mountain might have opened a few doors, as not long after that film came out both Gus Van Sant and Bryan Singer announced they’d be making movies based on the life of Harvey Milk, who in 1977 became the first openly gay man to be elected to political office in California. However Van Sant’s film was the first out of the gate, while Singer’s has now fallen by the wayside. That’s probably not a bad thing, as it’s difficult to imagine Singer’s take on the subject being better than Milk. [Read more…]

Joss Whedon Producing In Your Eyes

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Joss Whedon is one ridiculously busy man. Not content with taking on The Avengers, it was revealed last week that he’s also managed to find the time to shoot a new, low-budget take on Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing which he planning to take on the festival circuit next year.

If that weren’t enough, Deadline reports that he’s also written and is planning to produce In Your Eyes, which Brin Hill will direct – or at least he wrote it a while ago but is only now moving forward. The movie will be the second film (after Much Ado) from Whedon’s new micro-studio Bellwether which will embracce ‘a DIY ethos and newer technologies’ to make small indie movies.

Not a vast amount is known about the plot, other than that it’s ‘a metaphysical love story about two seemingly polar opposites who are deeply connected in ways neither could have ever imagined’. Whedon says, “When I wrote In Your Eyes, I didn’t have the wherewithal (or the moxie) to make it without an established production house. I believe, as I did then, that it’s a pretty timeless romance, and now, with the creation of Bellwether Pictures (and Brin Hill’s elegant, passionate take on the piece), I have the opportunity to prove it. (I also have a 37% increase in moxie.) I love this team and I can’t wait to see them bring In Your Eyes to life.”

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Brett Ratner Set To Hunt Eichman

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Bret Ratner might have a bad reputation thanks to the lightweight gumph that was the Rush Hour movies and X-Men: The Last Stand, but when he went a bit darker with Red Dragon he actually showed some talent. Now he looks like he’s going to follow the comedy Tower Heist with something very different in the form of Hunting Eichman.

Deadline reports he wants to get much more serious with the project, which is a thriller based on the true account of Israeli agents who secretly entered Argentina to capture Nazi-leader Adolph Eichmann, known as the architect of the Final Solution. Eichmann eluded capture for nearly two decades, until Mossad picked up his trail in South America. The eight agents sent after him risked everything to bring Eichmann back to face trial in Israel, where he was hanged in 1962.

Anne Peacock will write the script. It’s surprising a movie about bring Eichman to justice hasn’t been brought to the screen by Hollywood before, but presumably it’s waited this long due to the complicated politics surrounding Israel’s decision back then to send agents onto foreign sovereign territory to kidnap people, even if they were Nazis. It’s not known when Hunting Eichman might shoot.

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First Pic Of Bradley Cooper In The Words

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It must be ‘first pics of BradleyCooper in films’ day or something, as the first images of him in both The Place Beyond The Pines and The Words have popped up online. The image above (via CinemaBlend) is from The Words, where Zoe Saldana seems to be using him as a blanket. The film is about an author (Cooper) who becomes massively successful after stealing another writer’s lost work and claiming it as his own. Unsurprisingly he must eventually pay the price for his theft. It’s not known when it will be released.

Below you can see pics from The Place Beyond The Pines, which sees Ryan Gosling reunite with Blue Valentine director Derek Cianfrance, along with Cooper. The film also sees Gosling once more playing a stuntman (as in Drive), but this time on motorbikes. He plays a stunt rider who who turns to bank robberies to support his newborn son, but when he crosses paths with a rookie police officer (Cooper) their violent confrontation spirals into a tense generational fued. (Images via Blackfilm)

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