There are some people who shouldn’t be allowed to wear a shirt, and Aaron Taylor-Johnson is one of them. Unfortunately for us though, most of the time he does cover up. He’s done us a favour though by getting shirtless for Vulture, and showing off his very well-toned abs. All we can say is his wife, Sam Taylor-Johnson, is a lucky woman getting to wake up to that every day.
Although Aaron was snubbed when it came to Oscar nomination time – despite having just won a Golden Globe – he’s up for a Best Supporting Actor gong this weekend at the BAFTAs for Nocturnal Animals. However, he says he doesn’t mind not getting the Oscar nod, telling Vulture that, “There was relief when my wife told me that I hadn’t been nominated.”
Taylor-Johnson will also soon be seen in Doug Liman’s The Wall, as one of two soldiers pinned down by an Iraqi sniper, with nothing but a crumbling wall between them. That film is due out in March.
Take a look at the shirtless shots of Aaron below, and you can head over to Vulture to read more. [Read more…]
After watching the trailer for Wild Awakening it’s a bit difficult to know what to make. The film heads into full-on melodrama territory, taking its cues from telenovelas, while adding in a fair dose on man-on-man action. I’m not sure whether it’s meant to be funny or not, or whether it’s just a bit camp, but I’d like to find out!
This year was a good one for LGBT movies at Sundance, with the likes of Call Me By Your Name, God’s Own Country and Beach Rats making waves. The first teaser for the last of those films has now arrived, which you can take a look at below.
2017 marks the the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Sexual Offences Act which decriminalised homosexual acts in England and Wales between adult males, in private. It’s very fitting then that this year’s BFI Flare: London LGBT Film Festival will open with the the world premiere of Against The Law, about one of the cases that helped lead to the partial decriminalisation of gay sex in England and Wales.
It’s been revealed that Eva Green and Gemma Arterton have signed up to star Vita & Virginia, based on the true story of the love affair between Bloomsbury Group luminaries Virginia Woolf and VIta Sackville-West. Chanya Button (Burn, Burn, Burn) is set to direct the movie, working from a script by Dame Eileen Atkins (adapted from her 1992 play).
Goldie Hawn hasn’t been seen on screen since 2002’s The Banger Sisters, but now she’s getting back in the game and starring alongside Amy Schumer in Snatched. Wanda Sykes, Ike Barinholtz, Christopher Meloni, and Randall Park are also along for the ride.
The Lego Movie turned out to be a much better movie and a much bigger hit than anyone expected. That got Warner Bros. excited and they didn’t just put a sequel in the works, they also developed The Lego Batman Movie, which hits cinemas this week, and also The Lego Ninjago Movie.
Based on a Dave Eggers novel, The Circle is a film that’s vaguely science-fiction, but actually far closer to reality than we might like to admit. After all, Google and Facebook already know more about us than even our closest friends.
Following Marie Antoinette, Kirsten Dunst and director Sofia Coppola are getting back into period drama territory with The Beguiled. And they’re bringing the likes of Nicole Kidman, Colin Farrell, Elle Fanning and Angourie Rice along with them. The movie is The Beguiled, based on Thomas P. Cullinan’s novel A Painted Devil, which was previously turned into a 1971 movie starring Clint Eastwood.
Post governator Arnold Schwazenegger has been a rather different actor to the man we knew beforehand. While he’s made another Terminator, largely he’s looked for movies that offer more complex characters than we’re used to from him, and he’s been surprisingly good in the likes of Maggie and Sabotage. It looks like he could be back at it with the fact-based revenge drama, Aftermath.
Each year, EE, which sponsors the BAFTA Film Awards, tries to find something innovative do on the red carpet. This year things are getting more interactive than they have before, giving movie fans the chance to get a virtual selfie with a movie star. This will be made possible thanks to innovative, custom-built camera technology featured in the EE Roboselfie: a high-tech, selfie-taking robot.
As Pacific Rim wasn’t quite a big a hit as the studio had hoped, you’d have thought that if they were gonna make a sequel, they would do it quickly. However, they’ve taken their time, with the movie almost being a reboot, with most of the main characters getting replaced and a story that is reported to jump forward in time.