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Taking a look at the world of film through gay eyes - news, reviews, trailers, gay film, queer cinema & more

Last Vegas Trailer – Robert De Niro, Michael Douglas & Morgan Freeman star in the ‘old boys Hangover’

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Last Vegas has been described as the ‘old boys Hangover’ with the likes of Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman, Michael Douglas and Kevin Kline (who are all, incidentally, Oscar winners) heading to Vegas and inevitably getting into trouble. Now the full trailer for the movie has arrived.

Here’s the synopsis: ‘Billy (Michael Douglas), Paddy (Robert De Niro), Archie (Morgan Freeman) and Sam (Kevin Kline) have been best friends since childhood. So when Billy, the group’s sworn bachelor, finally proposes to his thirty-something (of course) girlfriend, the four head to Las Vegas with a plan to stop acting their age and relive their glory days. However, upon arriving, the four quickly realize that the decades have transformed Sin City and tested their friendship in ways they never imagined. The Rat Pack may have once played the Sands and Cirque du Soleil may now rule the Strip, but it’s these four who are taking over Vegas.’

It should hit cinemas in November. [Read more…]

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Speechless (DVD)

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Set in southern China, a western man (Pierre-Matthieu Vital) is found naked by the side of a river. The police pick him up, but he doesn’t say anything – although it’s not clear whether he can’t or if he’s simply refusing. The doctors can’t work out what’s wrong with him and so decide to transfer him to a mental hospital.

A male nurse takes pity on him though, feeling this man isn’t ‘mad’ and so helps to liberate him from the hospital. Slowly we learn how the man ended up on the riverbank and the dramatic events that took place during his relationship with a young Chinese man. [Read more…]

Robot & Frank (Blu-ray)

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Hunter (James Marsden) is fed up with dealing with his aging father, Frank (Frank Langella), and so rather than having to constantly drives miles to sort him out, he buys him a robot (voiced by Peter Sarsgaard), who’ll serve as a carer and butler. Frank doesn’t want this contraption, but eventually agrees to keep it while simultaneously plotting ways to get rid of it.

However Frank slowly realises the bot may have a use. Frank is a former jewel thief, and he recognises that the robot can be taught skills such as lock picking, which Frank can use in a scheme he cooks up to rejoin his former criminal profession. [Read more…]

First Look At Liam Hemsworth In Cut Bank

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Despite The Hunger Games, Liam Hemsworth hasn’t quite got the fame of his brother Chris. He’s working on it though, with the Hunger Games sequels coming, as well as the thriller Paranoia, which is due in cinemas soon. Now we get our first look at another one of his movies, Cut Bank, where we can see him standing in a field (and unlike most of the other images of him that get released, in this one he’s wearing a shirt!).

Although it may not look like it, the film is actually a sci-fi flick. It follows Dwayne McLaren (Hemsworth ) a high school star athlete recently turned auto mechanic, who dreams of getting out of tiny town on Cut Bank, the coldest town in America, and whisking his pageant-hopeful girlfriend, Cassandra (Teresa Palmer), away to the big city.

However, his plan to leave sets in motion a deadly series of events and thrusts him into a police investigation headed by Sheriff Vogel (John Malkovich), the protector of Cut Bank and the closest thing Dwayne has to a father figure. Panic sweeps across the community in mere hours, but things are not what they seem. Cassandra’s father, Big Stan Steeley (Billy Bob Thornton), is the only one who seems to realise this. However, the damage is already done and the events that unfold change Dwayne’s life, and the life of the town, forever.

The film’s due out next year.

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Cate Blanchett & Djimon Hounsou Join How To Train Your Dragon 2

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Cate-BlanchettHow To Train Your Dragon 2 has had its Comic-Con panel, which included what’s been described as an ‘awesome’ clip from the movie, along with the news that Cate Blanchett and Djimon Hounsou will be part of the voice cast of the film.

Cinemablend reports that more was revealed about Kit Harington’s previously announced role in the movie. He’ll be “a self-declared world’s greatest dragon trapper. He’s very brazen,” according to DreamWorks.

Harington’s villain will be joined by Hounsou on the evil side of things, as he’ll be playing a character with the suitably dangerous name of Drago Bloodfist. Blanchett meanwhile will be somebody called Volca. Director Dean DeBlois describes her as, “A feral recluse vigilante that’s been out there rescuing dragons from traps.”

Here’s the synopsis: ‘The thrilling second chapter of the epic How To Train Your Dragon trilogy brings back the fantastical world of Hiccup and Toothless five years later. While Astrid, Snoutlout and the rest of the gang are challenging each other to dragon races (the island’s new favorite contact sport), the now inseparable pair journey through the skies, charting unmapped territories and exploring new worlds. When one of their adventures leads to the discovery of a secret ice cave that is home to hundreds of new wild dragons and the mysterious Dragon Rider, the two friends find themselves at the center of a battle to protect the peace.’

The film is currently due out June 20th, 2014.

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Comic-Con Posters: Oldboy Banner, Getaway, 300: Rise Of An Empire, The Crow & more

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While most of us can’t get to San Diego for Comic-con, we can still hang around the periphery, enjoying the bits and pieces studios release to tie in with the event. That includes a lot of posters. We’ve now got a quintet of fresh looks at upcoming movie with an Oldboy banner, as well as new posters for 300: Rise Of An Empire, Getaway, Only God Forgives and the reboot of The Crow. You can take a look at all of them below.

Spike Lee’s remake of Oldboy follows  an advertising executive (Josh Brolin) who is abruptly kidnapped and held hostage for 20 years in solitary confinement. When he is inexplicably released, he embarks on an obsessive mission to discover who orchestrated his bizarre and torturous punishment, only to find he is still trapped in a web of conspiracy and torment.

The Crow gets a poster from the comic’s creator, James O’Barr, along with the news that after years in development, it should finally start shooting in Ocotber. Luke Evans will play Eric Draven, who dies but comes back as The Crow to avenge the murder of his girlfriend. F. Javier Gutiérrez directs.

Getaway follows former race car driver Brent Magna (Ethan Hawke) is pitted against the clock. Desperately trying to save the life of his kidnapped wife, Brent commandeers a custom Shelby Cobra Mustang, taking it and its unwitting owner (Selena Gomez) on a high-speed race against time, at the command of the mysterious villain holding his wife hostage. It’s out in the US in August and currently scheduled for an early October release in the UK.

In Only God Forgives, Julian (Gosling) lives in exile in Bangkok where he runs a Thai boxing club as a front for the family’s drugs smuggling operation. When Julian’s brother Billy is killed their mother, Jenna (Kristen Scott Thomas), arrives in the city. She wants revenge and forces Julian to find the killer. Julian’s contacts in the criminal underworld lead him directly to The Angel of Vengeance, a retired police officer who knows everything and who is both Judge and Punisher. Jenna demands that Julian kill The Angel of Vengeance, an act that will cost him dearly.

300: Rise Of An Empire sees Sullivan Stapleton as Themistokles, who tries to unite all of Greece in battle against the massive Persian army lead by Xerxes and the cunning Artemisia (Eva Green). It’s out March 2014.

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Charlie Hunnam, Christoph Waltz & Cate Blanchett Up For Triple Nine

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charlie-hunnam-shirtless-pacific-rim2Charlie Hunnam may be killing monsters in Pacific Rim in cinemas at the moment, but now he’s planning to turn police officer as TheWrap reports that he’s set to star in Triple Nine for director John Hillcoat (The Road). Christoph Waltz and Cate Blanchett are also in talks for the movie

Triple Nine is a reference to police code, indicating that an officer needs immediate assistance. The film ‘follows a group of thieves who plan to kill a young LAPD cop to divert the police away from a daring heist they’re perpetrating across town. Hunnam will play the targeted officer, while Waltz is in talks to play Hunnam’s uncle, a fellow cop investigating the criminals. Blanchett would play the juicy role of a notorious mobster’s Lady Macbeth-esque wife who’s really pulling the strings behind the heist.’

The film has been a long time coming, with the likes if Shia Labeouf, Chris Pine and Jeff Bridges circling previous incarnations (although the film has apparently changed significantly since then).

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First Look At The X-Men: Days Of Future Past’s Robotic Sentinels

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The future isn’t going to be good for mutants – at least it won’t the if ones from the past can’t stop the rise of the sentinels! X-Men: Days Of Future Past revolves around that concept, showing us a near-future where all the mutants have been rounded up and put in concentration camps, with robots known as Sentinels controlling the ‘mutant threat’.

Now we’ve got our first look at those Sentinels thanks to images that have emerged of a robotic head that’s on display at Comic-Con, as well as some propaganda posters from Trask Industries, the company that builds the bots.

The film will see the X-Men of the past having to stop the events that make the Sentinels a reality. That sees them running up against Peter Dinklage’s Bolivar Trask, who runs Trask Industries.

X-Men: Days Of Future Past is currently in production and stars James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Rose Byrne, Jennifer Lawrence, Nicholas Hoult, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen and Hugh Jackman. It’ll be out May 2013.

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Britt Robertson Confirmed To Star Opposite George Clooney In Disney’s Tomorrowland

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britt-robertsonAfter the failure of John Carter and The Lone Ranger, you might think Disney would be shying away from projects that aren’t either animated, sequels or made by Marvel. However they’ve been putting together Tomorrowland, and recently it was rumoured they were eyeing Britt Robertson or Naomi Scott for the female lead role.

Now it’s been confirmed that Under The Dome and Secret Circle star Robertson has won the role and signed onto the movie. Disney released a brief casting announcement saying she’s going to be in the film, along with the info that, ‘In the film, a high school girl with an unconventional understanding of technology is launched on a journey to reclaim her future.’

Previous details have suggested that her character approaches a cranky inventor named Frank (George Clooney) to unravel the mystery behind Tomorrowland, a world that exists in a parallel dimension to ours. Hugh Laurie has been cast as the villain, with Raffey Cassidy playing a child robot who joins Casey and Frank on their journey.

Brad Bird is directing Tomorrowland from a screenplay by Damon Lindelof and Jeff Jensen. A December 12, 2014 release date has already been set.

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Rose Byrne In Talks To Join Jamie Foxx In Annie

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Rose-ByrneAfter a fairly long development process, the revamped movie version of the musical Annie is now coming together. Quvenzhané Wallis is already attached to star as the titular orphan, with Cameron Diaz as the horrible Miss Hannigan, and Jamie Foxx as Daddy Warbucks.

Now they may be joined by Rose Byrne, as Variety reports that she’s in early talks to play Grace, Warbucks’ assistant. Ann Reinking played the role in John Huston’s 1982 film version.

It’ll certainly be interesting to see what they do with the music in this version, as Will Smith and Jay-Z have been working behind the scene to update the score, although it’s not known yet quite how contemporary the tunes will become and whether we’ll get a hip-hop version of Tomorrow.

The plot remains the same though, with orphan Annie having a hard-luck life in the foul orphanage run by Miss Hannigan. She’s then taken in by the filthy rich Daddy Warbucks, who initially doesn’t really want her, but soon falls for the plucky youngster’s charms.

Will Gluck is directing from a screenplay he is currently rewriting, which was originally written by Aline Brosh McKenna and Emma Thompson. Annie is currently set for release December 25th, 2014

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First Look At Christoph Waltz & Co. In Terry Gilliam’s Zero Theorem

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Comic-Con has now officially kicked off, with the first day including the screening of some footage from Terry Gilliam’s upcoming movie, The Zero Theorem. While you had to be in San Diego to see that (although there’s a chance it’ll pop up online), the first two official images from the film have also been released, via Empire.

Zero Theorem is about an eccentric and reclusive computer genius (Christoph Waltz), who is plagued with existential angst while working on a mysterious project aimed at discovering the purpose of existence, or­ the lack thereof,­ once and for all. However, it is only once he experiences the power of love and desire that he is able to understand his very reason for being.

The story, by Pat Rushin, was partially inspired by Gilliam’s own Brazil, so it’s very apt Terry has taken the project on.

Ben Whishaw, Matt Damon, Tilda Swinton, David Thewlis, Mélanie Thierry, Lucas Hedges and Sanjeev Bhaskar co-star. No UK or US release date is currently set.

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Win The Sexy Gay-Themed Flick I Want Your Love On DVD!

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I-Want-Your-Love-dvd-coverI Want Your Love hits DVD on July 22nd 2013, and we’ve teamed up with Peccadillo Pictures to offer three of you a copy in this great comp.

The hotly anticipated debut feature film from director Travis Mathews (Interior. Leather Bar) is a bold and unflinching look at gay relationships among a group of San Francisco friends including scenes of real sex, striking controversy amongst global film censors, including Australia, where the film was banned.

After a decade of living in San Francisco, Jesse is forced to move back to his Midwestern roots because he can no longer afford the city. On his final night in the city, friends and ex-lovers gather for a going away party that promises to heighten Jesse’s already bittersweet feelings about leaving. Featuring music from The Chromatics, I Want Your Love is a passionate and deeply intimate film, that dares to capture the uncensored zeitgeist of modern-day San Francisco unlike any film before it.

If you’d like to try and win one of the three copies of I Want Your Love on DVD that we’ve got to give away, answer the question below and fill in your details, then press submit! The competition closes on July 31st 2013, so get answering and good luck!

I WANT YOUR LOVE is out on DVD on 22nd July from Amazon, Play and Zavvi. [Read more…]

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