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
We’ve already have a red-band trailer for 22 Jump Street, but now it’s time for the first posters, which both feature Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum waving their guns around in the air.
22 Jump Street picks up where the first movie left off and finds partners Jenko (Tatum) and Schmidt (Hill) undercover at a local university. However, the partners get separated, with Jenko joining the football team and the Schmidt finding himself in amongst the art majors.
The film will be in cinemas in June.
Daniel Craig
We haven’t seen much of Daniel Craig since the gargantuan success of Skyfall – indeed the only upcoming movie IMDB has him listed for is the next 007 film. However now Variety reports that Craig has taken the lead in Courtney Hunt’s upcoming courtroom drama The Whole Truth.
No plot details have been release, but we do know he will be portraying a lawyer. Frozen River director Courtney Hunt is directing from a script by Nicholas Kazan. Richard Suckle will be producing with FilmNation handling foreign rights.
It’s not clear when it might shoot, although presumably it’ll be before Bond 24, which is due to film later this year.
The movie Love Is Strange premiered at Sundance to pretty good reviews. Also at the festival were stars Alfred Molina, John Lithgow and Cheyenne Jackson, along with director Ira Sachs (Keep The Lights On). Now Variety has posted a video from Sundance, which shows the quartet having a chat about the gay-themed movie.
Lithgow and Molina play a gay couple who’ve been together for 39 years, and have just gotten married in New York. However when their nuptials result in Lithgow’s character losing him job, they ironically end up having to live apart.
Love Is Strange will screen at other film festivals over the coming months, including Berlin in February, and will hopefully get a wider release later this year.
Take a look at the interview below. [Read more…]
Back in 1989, Common Threads: Tales From The Quilt won an Oscar for Best Documentary. Back then the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt was a relatively new phenomenon, although it had already seen many people create panels to celebrate the lives and remember those they’d known who’d died of the disease.
Since then the project has continued, becoming the largest piece of community folk art in the world, with over 48,000 panels commemorating more than 94,000 people. It weighs over 50 tons and would stretch for fifty miles if laid end to end.
It’s an incredible piece of work, and the documentary The Last One: The Story of the AIDS Memorial Quilt plans to revisit it, and to do so it’s seeking $35,000 on Kickstarter. This will pay for final completion funding as it heads towards film festivals over the next few months.
The funding page says, ‘This film is a story of how stigma, discrimination, social status and the lack of access to care exacerbate a disease. A disease that has already claimed the lives of roughly 30 million people and currently infects another 34 million men, women and children around the globe.
‘The Last One tells the story of the AIDS Memorial Quilt, the people the quilt memorializes, and the individuals who have spent their lives speaking up and against the stigma of the epidemic.’
‘In the eighties and nineties, as the United States gay community was being ravaged by AIDS, families and friends of the dying fought a public battle to find treatment and understanding. The quilt was part of that call for justice and provided a way for people to respond to the threat of AIDS. Panel by panel, individuals and groups devised a way to express their fear, their love, their passion, their politics and their grief. Panel makers were family members, friends, activists, quilt makers, churchgoers, and fans. And the panels followed a simple form: the cloth is cut in the size of a standard coffin and includes at least the name of its honoree. Each panel is then sewn together to make a block 12 feet by 12 feet. Ceremonies are held displaying the quilt pieces as the names of the dead are read. Almost three decades after the first panel was made, The AIDS Memorial Quilt has become the largest ongoing community art project in the world.’
The title references a panel sewn in 1987, which simply reads ‘The Last One’. It’s held aside from the main quilt in the hope that one day it really can become the final piece of this incredible and thought-provoking project when the battle against the disease is over.
You can find out more over on the Kickstarter page and perhaps you could help with a bit of funding too. [Read more…]
Like The New Normal and Partners before it, another gay-themed US sitcom falls before it even got to a second season. In this case production has been shut down on Sean Hayes’ Sean Saves The World after only 12 episodes have aired, with another two in the can.
It effectively means its been cancelled, although NBC hasn’t officially made that announcement yet. The network had ordered 18 episoded, but took the decision to cease production on the final four.
The show followed Hayes as a gay dad who’s recently been given full-time care of his daughter, Ellie, and must now raise her as child as a single father.
It’s not known if NBC plans to air the two remaining episodes or not – there’s a good chance they won’t , as the show would have been on hiatus for the Winter Olympics anyway, so this would allow them to give it a clean break.
However NBC isn’t completely giving up on everything gay, because as we reported yesterday, they’ve just ordered a pilot for a comedy about a lesbian who gets pregnant just as her straight male best friend gets married.
A lot of people are pretty excited about The Fault In Our Stars as John Green’s novel has a huge amount of fans. Now we get out first proper look with a trailer for the movie.
The movie follows Hazel Grace Lancaster (Shailene Woodley), a teenager who joins a support group after being diagnosed with cancer. Hazel begins to fall for another cancer-stricken teenager Augustus (Ansel Elgort) from her group. Sam Trammell and Laura Dern play Hazel’s father and mother, with Nat Wolff as Isaac, Augustus’ best friend.
The film, directed by Josh Boone, is due out this summer. [Read more…]
In The Rover, Australia has suffered a massive financial crisis that sent many heading for desert mines in the hope of finding their fortune. Guy Pearce stars as Eric, a drifter living outside normal society. When his car is stolen by a gang of thugs, he enlists the help of Reynolds (Robert Pattinson), a gang member who was abandoned during the chaos.
It’s all a little post-apocalyptic, as this teaser trailer shows.
Director David Michod previously commented, “It’s like a new gold rush. Where people from all corners of the world have come out to the desert to scrape out an existence. Petty criminals and miscreants and hustlers. The basic story is really quite elemental. You’ve got a really dark, dangerous, murderous person in Guy’s character, and in Rob’s character you have a quite troubled and damaged, but beautiful and naïve, soul.”
We’re not sure about Pattinson as a gangster thug, but perhaps he’ll surprise us. The movie should hit cinemas later this year. [Read more…]
Many thought Ted sounded like a premise that was never going to work, but the R-rated talking teddy movie became a major hit. It’s the same with Seth MacFarlane’s follow-up, as A Million Ways To Die In The West, which doesn’t sound like a big grosser on paper, but could surprise us on its summer 2014.
Now a set of character posters have arrived, featuring MacFarlane, Charlize Theron, Amanda Seyfried, Giovanni Ribisi, Neil Patrick Harris, Sarah Silverman and Liam Neeson.
The movie is about a cowardly sheep farmer (MacFarlane) backs out of a gunfight, his fickle girlfriend (Seyfried) leaves him for another man (Patrick Harris). When a mysterious and beautiful woman (Theron) rides into town, she helps him find his courage and they begin to fall in love. But when her husband, a notorious outlaw (Neeson), arrives seeking revenge, the farmer must put his newfound courage to the test.
Click on the pics below for larger versions.
If Liam Neeson had any need to top up his pension pot, he must have been very happy to have been cast in Taken, which has turned into an opportunity for him to get increasingly large paycheques (reportedly $20 million for Taken 3) just to run around being very angry and killing people – with not much else required on the acting front.
However he needs people to be angry opposite (and to kill), and for Taken 3 one of those co-stars will be Forest Whitaker, according to Deadline. Maggie Grace is also expected to return, with Olivier Megaton (who helmed the second movie) directing.
Robert Mark Kamen and Luc Besson wrote the script, but no plot details have been released. It’s safe to assume there will be an endless supply of bad guys for Neeson to kill – although there may be a slight change this time, as the creators have promised a slightly different premise to the first two movies.
The hope is to get it into production in March.
M. Night Shyamalan and Bruce Willis had plenty of success together with The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable, but they haven’t worked together since. Now they’re planning to reunite, but it won’t be for a sequel to either of their earlier movies, instead it’ll be a drama called Labor Of Love, according to Deadline.
In the film, ‘Willis will play a Philadelphia book store owner who loses the love of his life in a tragic accident. Never big on words, he becomes haunted by the notion that he never properly told his wife how much he loved her. Since she once asked if he would walk across the country for her, he decides to show her posthumously just how much he did love her. That trek starts from Philadelphia to Pacifica, CA, which was her favorite place.’
Interestingly it’s not a new project, as it was actually one of the first scripts Shyamalan sold back in 1993, but it didn’t get made as Night wanted to direct but Fox, who bought the screenplay, didn’t want to let him.
Now Emmett/Furla/Oasis are buying the rights from Fox and plan to sell the project to interested parties at the European Film Market.
Noah is certainly one of the most intriguing films of the early part of 2014, with Darren Aronofsky directing his take on the Biblical story of the flood, complete with tweaked animals, unusual angels and plenty more.
Now a new poster for the movie has been released.
The film follows Noah (Russell Crowe), who lives on a vast plain of volcanic ash in the lee of a volcanic glacier (the movie was largely shot in Iceland) and has to trek up a mountain every day to get to work. He is told by God to build an enormous vessel to house both his family and the animals of the world to preserve them from a flood that promises to wipe out a sin-filled world.
It’s currently due for release on March 28th, 2014.
Having completed Labor Day with Kate Winslet and Josh Brolin, Jason Reitman is already thinking about future projects, with Variety reporting that he has signed up to direct The Possibilities. The movie will be an adaption of Kaui Hart Hemmings’ upcoming novel. Hemmings previously had book-to-film success with The Descendants.
The official plot description of the book says, ‘In this highly anticipated novel from the bestselling author of The Descendants, a grieving mother struggles to overcome her son’s death, when a strange girl enters her life with a secret that changes them both forever.
‘Sarah St. John, a single mother, is reeling from grief: Three months ago, her twenty-one-year-old son, Cully, died in an avalanche near their home in the ski resort town of Breckenridge, Colorado.
‘As Sarah tries her best to go through the stages-the anger, the sadness, the letting go-she has trouble keeping her grief at bay and moving on with life. Her father, a retiree who has become addicted to QVC, urges Sarah to go back to work at Breckenridge’s local morning show. Her best friend, a recent divorcee who always manages to say the wrong things, convinces Sarah to sort through Cully’s belongings. Slowly, she comes to terms with a world without the swish of her son’s ski pants or the rolling of his skateboard outside her window. Then a girl named Kit appears on Sarah’s doorstep-and she’s carrying Cully’s child.’
It isn’t known if Jason Reitman is also writing the screenplay, although there’s a good chance that he wil. There isn’t any info on when it might shoot either.