Kate McKinnon and Mila Kunis seem like they should make a great comedic pairing. We’ll get to see whether they are with The Spy Who Dumped Me, where the duo get in way over their heads for some buddy comedy action.
Here’s the synopsis: ‘Audrey (Mila Kunis) and Morgan (Kate McKinnon), two thirty-year-old best friends in Los Angeles, are thrust unexpectedly into an international conspiracy when Audrey’s ex-boyfriend shows up at their apartment with a team of deadly assassins on his trail. Surprising even themselves, the duo jump into action, on the run throughout Europe from assassins and a suspicious-but-charming British agent, as they hatch a plan to save the world.’
Justin Theroux plays the ex, with Sam Heughan, Hasan Minhaj, and Gillian Anderson also starring. The film is due to hit cinemas in the summer. Take a look at the new trailer below. [Read more…]
Mapplethorpe, the biopic of legendary gay photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, debuted at the Tribeca Film Fesitval a couple of weeks ago. However, just because the film has screened, doesn’t mean it’s finished, so an IndieGoGo campaign has been launched to help raise funds for things like music licensing, special effects and the expense of taking the movie around to festivals.
Netflix seems to on a mission to prove that whatever Hollywood can do, it can do too. After Tinsel Town produced its first mainstream gay teen comedy release, Netflix is lining up something that fits in the same ballpark – Alex Strangelove. The first trailer for the movie has arrive, which suggests that unlike Love, Simon, this one won’t be ignoring the fact teens like to have sex.
If you ever thought people who take small boats out into the middle of the ocean are completely nuts, then Adrift is here to show you that you are completely correct.
There have been a couple of attempts to reinvigorate the Predator franchise, whether it’s been getting them to battle Aliens or taking us to their planet in Robert Rodriguez’s Predators. Fox finally seemed to have given up on it, until Iron Man 3’s Shane Black rocked up with a new idea and suddenly, The Predator was in the works.
While it’s derided by many, Mamma Mia! is one of the most successful movie musicals ever made, grossing over $600 million. For a time it was the highest grossing movie ever in the UK, and the highest grossing movie directed by a woman worldwide.
The award-winning gay short film compilation reaches its coming-of-age with Boys On Film 18: Heroes. The release features ten uplifting and powerful tales recounting the lives of everyday gay, bi or transgender heroes, fighting for the right to be be themselves.
Although largely forgotten today, the saga of Jeremy Thorpe and Norman Scott was the biggest British political scandal of the 1970s – indeed some dubbed it the case of the century. It had everything the tabloids loved to feast on – a major party leader, the hint of homosexuality, a court case involving incitement to murder and even a dead dog! John Preston’s 2016 novel about the case, A Very English Scandal, has now been made into a three-part TV series, with Queer As Folk’s Russell T. Davis on scripting duties for A Very British Scandal, and Stephen Frears (My Beautiful Laundrette, The Queen) directing,
In 2012, cartoonist Justin Hall curated the anthology book, No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics, which featured a varied array of contributions from lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer comics creators. Now he’s hoping to be able to bring No Straight Lines to the screen as a documentary, looking at the history of queer comics, and some of the current key figures behind the LGBTQ comic diversity that’s on the page but hasn’t really been seen in the big budget comic book movies.
Back at the end of October, 
Hollywood is hoping that the world is ready for a new wave of blaxploitation movies. Shaft is set to return with both his previous incarnations – Richard Roundtree and Samuel L. Jackson – due to star, and now a new version of 1972’s Superfly is on its way.