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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

Ray Winstone Signs On For Point Break Remake

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ray-winstoneWhile there are many out there who are still wondering why they’re remaking Point Break, the film continues to come together. The latest news is that Ray Winstone has signed up for the movies, according to Variety.

Winstone joins Luke Bracey and Gerard Butler in the movie, with Bracey as Johnny Utah, a young FBI agent who goes undercover to infiltrate a crime syndicate who are involved in the world of international extreme sports. Butler will play Bodhi, who’s involved in the crimes and whose influence ends up with Utah questioning what side he should be on.

Winstone is set to be Bracey’s older, veteran partner, as played by Gary Busey in the original.

Ericson Core (Invincible) is directing from a screenplay by Kurt Wimmer’s. Principal photography is set to begin early this summer.

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Tom At The Farm (Tom à la ferme) (Cinema/DVD)

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This is Xavier Dolan’s fourth film as a director, and he’s still only 25. It’s difficult to know whether to be impressed or whether to dislike him on principle. Indeed that’s true of much about Dolan – he has a supreme confidence that is simultaneously exciting and a little exasperating, his grasp of plot and theme is both engrossing and frustratingly underdeveloped, and he manages to imbue his films with a hipster vibe that is too pleased with itself and yet gives his films an unexpected vibrancy.

All that’s true of Tom At The Farm, even if it is a bit of a sidestep from his earlier movies into the world of the psychosexual thriller. [Read more…]

Win The Gothic Horror Novel The Quick!

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quick-hardbackTO CELEBRATE THE RELEASE OF HYPED VICTORIAN HORROR NOVEL THE QUICK WE HAVE SOME HARDBACK COPIES TO GIVE AWAY

You are not yet permitted, reader, to know the secrets of The Quick.

For now, please make do with the following –

You will travel to Victorian England, and there, in the wilds of Yorkshire, you will meet a brother and sister alone in the world, a pair bound by tragedy. You will, in time, enter the rooms of London’s mysterious Aegolius Club – a society of the richest, most ambitious men in England. And at some point, we cannot say when, a trapdoor will open, the contours of reality will change, and the secrets of The Quick will reveal themselves.

In her first novel, Lauren Owen has created an utterly beguiling fantastical world.  As emotionally involving as it is suspenseful, The Quick will establish her as one of contemporary fiction’s most dazzling talents, as early readers can already testify.

There’s even a bit of gay-interest thrown in for good measure.

If you’d like to try and win one of the three hardback copies of The Quick we’ve got to give away, answer the question below and fill in your details, then press submit! The competition closes on April 20th 2014, so get answering and good luck! [Read more…]

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Chris Evans’ Shirtless & Nude Scenes All Collected Into One Awesome Supercut!

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I’m surprised this hasn’t happened before. After all Chris Evans is not an actor afraid to strip down and there are an awful lot of people out there who are very, very grateful for that.

However now some absolute genius over at TheWrap has cut together a glorious minute of footage of Evans with his shirt off and often wearing even less that that, ranging from his Not Another Teen movie whipped cream bikini to his strategically placed towel in What’s Your Number?

Add in him steaming in Fantastic Four and buffed up for Captain America, and you’ve got one of the best ways to spend a minute you could hope for.

Next up someone just needs to convince him to make a movie where he develops an allergy to clothing for the entire running time, so we can get rid of those pesky bits of his films where you can’t admire his chest. [Read more…]

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The Angriest Man in Brooklyn Trailer – Robin Williams really shouldn’t shout at Mila Kunis

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Robin Williams normally seems a pretty happy fellow, but as the title suggests, he’s going for a change of emotion in The Angriest Man In Brooklyn.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Some people have bad days. Henry Altmann (Williams) has one every day. Always unhappy and angry at the world including everyone in it, Henry sits impatiently at the doctor’s office when he is finally seen by Dr. Sharon Gill (Mila Kunis). Sharon, who is enduring her own bad day, reveals that Henry has a brain aneurysm. This news makes Henry even angrier, yelling at Sharon he demands to know how much time he has left.

‘Faced with Henry’s anger and insults, Sharon abruptly tells him he has only 90 minutes. Shocked and reeling by this news, Henry storms out of the office leaving Sharon stunned by what she has just done in a lapse of judgment. As Sharon goes on a city-wide search, Henry struggles with his diagnosis, determined to make amends with everyone he has hurt in his life.’

The great cast also includes Peter Dinklage, Melissa Leo and James Earl Jones. It’s out in the US in May. [Read more…]

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Godzilla Extended Look – Aaron Taylor-Johnson vs. one enormous monster

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If something’s called an ‘Extended Look’, you’d expect it to be longer than a normal trailer, but this isn’t really. It does however feature a decent amount of rather cool new footage, which suggests this is going to be a big movie and a big monster.

I am slightly perplexed though, as Bryan Cranston starts shouting, ‘You’re hiding something out there’, and I’m not entirely sure how you hide something as enormous as Godzilla – he’s the size of a small country.

All will be explained (hopefully) when it hits UK cinemas on May 15th.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘An epic rebirth to Toho’s iconic Godzilla, this spectacular adventure, from Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures, pits the world’s most famous monster against malevolent creatures who, bolstered by humanity’s scientific arrogance, threaten our very existence.

‘Gareth Edwards directs “Godzilla,” which stars Aaron Taylor-Johnson (“Kick-Ass”), Oscar® nominee Ken Watanabe (“The Last Samurai,” “Inception”), Elizabeth Olsen (“Martha Marcy May Marlene”), Oscar® winner Juliette Binoche (“The English Patient,” “Cosmopolis”), and Sally Hawkins (“Blue Jasmine”), with Oscar® nominee David Strathairn (“Good Night, and Good Luck.,” “The Bourne Legacy”) and Bryan Cranston (“Argo,” TV’s “Breaking Bad”).’ [Read more…]

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New Blended Trailer – Adam Sandler teams up with Drew Barrymore once more

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Is Blended a good idea for a film, or did Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore just fancy having a holiday in Africa? We can now get a bit of a taste with a new trailer, which you can watch right here.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘After a disastrous blind date, single parents Lauren (Barrymore) and Jim (Sandler) agree on only one thing: they never want to see each other again.

‘But when they each sign up separately for a fabulous family vacation with their kids, they are all stuck sharing a suite at a luxurious African safari resort for a week. Warner Bros. Pictures presents a Gulfstream Pictures and Happy Madison Production, “Blended”, starring Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore, and directed by “The Wedding Singer” director, Frank Coraci.’

The film is in UK cinemas May 23rd 2013. [Read more…]

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Richard Donner Suggests Goonies 2 Is Really Happening

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Ever since 1985, every year or two there’s been a rumour that a sequel to The Goonies might be in the works. It’s gotten to the point where most people assumed it will never happen, but then few people thought we’d get The Lost Boys 2 & 3 either (and even more wish we hadn’t).

However now director Richard Donner himself has confirmed that they’re working on The Goonies 2. After TMZ stopped him on the street, they asked if he’d return to the comic book genre he helped create with 1978’s Superman

He replies, “If you call The Goonies a comic book.” He then adds, “We’re doing a sequel.”

When asked if any of the original cast is going to return, he says, “Hopefully all of them.”

Several years ago a script for The Goonies 2 was developed, which followed a new group of kids, many of the children of the original Goonies. Over the years the likes of Sean Astin, Josh Brolin, Corey Feldman, Kerri Green, and Martha Plimpton have expressed an interest in returning, but the film has never seemed all that close to actually happening.

While this isn’t exactly an official announcement, the fact it’s on Donner’s mind certainly suggests it’s something he’s actively working on. We’ll have to wait and see if this actually turns into anything.

Take a look at the TMZ vid below.

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Tom Hardy Is Going Musical With London Road, Alongside Olivia Colman

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When you look at Tom Hardy, few people think, ‘there’s a man who ought to be in musicals’, but he’s setting out to proved them wrong, as The Daily Mail reports that Hardy and Olivia Colman have signed up to star in the musical London Road for Broken director Rufus Norris (another person you wouldn’t necessarily think would be making a musical).

Although as those names suggest, this isn’t your usual musical.

The film will be adapted from the stage version, which is set in the Norfolk town of Ipswich during the time a serial killer murdered five women in the space of just a few weeks. Hardy will only have a small role, playing cab driver Mark,who has a single scene where he sings about the difficult passions he had as a teenager.

Hardy apparently loved the musical on stage and personally approached Norris to appear in the movie version.

The incredible Colman meanwhile is Julie, a Neighbourhood Watch organiser who comes up with the idea for ‘London Road In Bloom’, where they organise and put up hanging baskets full of plants, singing to provide a distraction from the darkness and fear that’s swept over the town. Linzi Hateley, who starred in London Role on stage, will reprise her role as a retired school teacher and Neighbourhood Watch secretary, Anita Dobson is set to play a line dancer.

Eloise Laurence, who starred alongside Tim Roth in Norris’ directorial debut, Broken, will be one of several young schoolgirls.

Rufus Norris is directing from a script he co-wrote with Moira Buffini and the play’s creators, Alecky Blythe and Adam Cork.

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Keanu Reeves Is Set To Knock Knock For Director Eli Roth

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keanu-reevesKeanu Reeves could do with a hit. He hasn’t had a bona fide success in a long time, and recently 47 Ronin turned into a costly failure, while his directorial debut, Man Of Tai Chi, barely made a dent in the box office.

He’ll be hoping for better by teaming up with Eli Roth for the psychological thriller Knock, Knock.

Deadline says the movie follows a happily married family man who is left alone for a long weekend. During this time he is visited by two beautiful women and as this is the movie, things quickly spiral out of control.

The women are set to be played by Lorenza Izzo, who also appears in Roth’s upcoming cannibal horror thriller, The Green Inferno, and Ana de Armas, who recently appeared in the Robert De Niro drama, Hands of Stone.

Also starring is and The Green Inferno alum, Ignacia Allamand, who will be Reeves’ wife, while Colleen Camp and Aaron Burns are also onboard.

It’s all come together very quickly, with Keanu Reeves signing up shortly after reading the script and then a rush into production with filming starting April 14th in Santiago, Chile.

Roth comments,”I had a window before I promote The Green Inferno, and I wanted to make a movie like Roman Polanski or Paul Verhoeven made when they were young, a classic psychosexual thriller that’s not a horror movie, but would have everyone on the edge of their seats. Getting Keanu Reeves is amazing, he’s a fine actor who is perfect for this. I feel I can have this movie ready for Toronto if I need to, and he’s catching a plane tomorrow and we’ll be fitting him for wardrobe right away.”

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Michelle Monaghan Signs Up To be Adam Sandler’s Love Interest In Pixels

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Michelle-MonaghanMichelle Monaghan has been having recent success with True Detective, but now she’s heading in a slightly different director as she has signed up to play the female lead in Pixels, according to THR, opposite Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Josh Gad and Peter Dinklage.

The movie is based on Patrick Jean’s 2010 short film, which sees New York City being transformed into and destroyed by 8-bit pixel classic videogames. This movie version is about aliens who confused a video feeds of classic arcade games as a declaration of war against their species. As a result they attack the Earth by staging versions of these games in real life on a massive scale.

Kevin James will be the US President, who turns to his childhood best friend (Sandler) to lead a team of gamers to stop this attack. Sandler is a former video game champion who now makes his living as a home theatre installer. Josh Gad is portraying a genius obsessed with conspiracy theories, while Peter Dinklage will play Adam Sandler’s brash rival.

Monaghan meanwhile is playing a weapons developer who’s the love interest of Adam Sandler’s character. Yes, once again in Hollywoodland a schlubby man has a ridiculously beautiful and significantly younger woman as their love interest.

Chris Columbus is directing from a script by Tim Herlihy and Timothy Dowling. Negotiations are currently underway to include several classic videogames in the movie.

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Judy Greer Heads For Jurassic World

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Judy-GreerAfter years in development, numerous delays and many people thinking it would never happen, production is finally set to begin later this month on the fourth Jurassic Park film, Jurassic World.

Director Colin Trevorrow is still busy finishing off the casting though, as THR reports that the always worthwhile Judy Greer has signed up for the movie.

As Trevorrow is keeping plot and character details to himself, it isn’t known exactly show Greer will play, but she joins Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Ty Simpkins, Nick Robinson, Vincent D’Onofrio, Irrfan Khan, Omar Sy, Jake Johnson and original Jurassic Park star B.D. Wong.

It’s believed this film will be set in a Jurassic Park that is up and running as a successful tourist attraction, just as John Hammond first envisioned. However I think it’s safe to say that the plot won’t involve everyone going for a visit and having a lovely time without any rampaging dinosaurs whatsoever.

Colin Trevorrow is directing from a script he co-wrote with Derek Connolly. It’s due in cinemas June 12th, 2015 release date.

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