Shame was very well received by the critics on its 2011, with many praising Michael Fassbender’s performance (and his penis) as a sex addict. However not everyone was impressed, and that includes James Franco.
In his regular column for VICE, he writes, ‘He wasn’t such an addict in my opinion, though. I mean, what did he do? Watch porn and screw a handful of people a week? I could point to quite a few folks who do that. And that scene where he’s at his lowest point and wants to fuck and goes into a gay club, and it’s depicted like the seventh level of hell… I mean, it goes back to the horrible representations of gays in the 70s, where the gay club is meant to signify everything dark and depraved. Then the guy gets a minor blowjob, from, Oh no, a man! The horror!’
He’s right about the gay club, as there is an element that it’s been okay when he was just screwing chicks, but he’s sunk as low as you can get when he wants a BJ from a guy. Sure he’s a straight man so it does show how strong the need for some sort of sexual release is, but the film does make it seem it’s the gayness that’s the issue.
Dan Stevens is an increasingly busy man. Even since he left Downton Abbey he’s booked a slew of roles in the likes of The Fifth Estate, A Walk Among The Tombstone, The Guest and just a few days ago, Night At The Museum 3.
Simon Pegg is going for a bit of a different look in Kill Me Three Times if the first image above is anything to by, as we’re not used to seeing him with a huge gun and a 70s moustache, while playing a hired killer. Timed to coincide with the American Film Market, 
Idris Elba is having a increasingly impressive transatlantic career, with the likes of Pacific Rim in the US and London detective Luther in the UK. Now he’s planning to span the Atlantic, as the British actor is heading to Paris to play an American in Bastille Day, according to 
Director Guillermo del Toro is at the Rome Film Festival, where he ended up getting onto the subject of Warner Bros.’ plans for the DC Universe, suggesting they have an all-encompassing scheme that will cover all mediums.
It looks like we’re getting a sort-of sequel to the 2004 movie Layer Cake, which helped turn Daniel Craig into a bona fide movie star. It’s only sort-of, as while it’s based on the JJ Connolly’s sequel novel, it seems a whole new filmmaking team will take on the tale, according to 
With Hollywood in love with fairytales at the moment, there’s been a lot of interest in creating a live-action version of Peter Pan, although none of them will directly takes on the stories JM Barrie himself created stories. Now Joe Wright (Atonement, Anna Karenina) has been hired to direct a currently untitled Peter Pan origin project which is set up at Warner Bros.
The year’s most thrilling, action-packed blockbuster comes home as The Wolverine debuts its 3-Disc 3D Blu-ray Unleashed Extended Edition, Blu-ray and DVD on 18th November from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. We’ve teamed up with them to give away three copies of the hit movie on DVD.