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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

Boys On Film 3: American Boy (DVD)

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Read our reviews of the other Boys On Film short film collections here.

With Boys On Film: Cruel Britannia out on May 28th, we’re looking at all eight of Peccadillo Picture’s collections of gay short films, most of which are well worth a look. We’ve already taken a look at Hard Love and In Too Deep, and today it’s time for American Boy, a collection of seven short movies all hailing from the US of A.

From thriller to comedy they’re an eclectic bunch and while overall it’s not quite as strong a release as the first two Boys On Film discs, there’s still a lot of interesting stuff and it’s a cut above a lot of the feature-length gay releases out there. Let’s take a look at the shorts: [Read more…]

John Cusack In Talks To Join Elijah Wood In Grand Piano

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A couple of weeks ago, we reported that Elijah Wood was set to star in Grand Piano, and now he may have some company, as Variety reports that John Cusack is in talks to co-star in the film, which Eugenio Mira (Agnosia) is set to direct.

The plot centres on a concert pianist (Wood) who returns from a severe bout of stagefright after a five-year break from performing. However, when he sits down at the piano, he sees a menacing note on his sheet music. He must give the performance of a lifetime or else a mysterious madman will kill him and his wife! The project is described as Speed at a piano. There’s no news on exactly who Cusack might play, although presumably he’ll be the bad guy.

The movie is currently looking for buyers at Cannes, ahead of a July shoot in Spain.

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Maniac Trailer – Elijah Wood gets homicidal and NSFW

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Ahead of plans to create buzz at Cannes, a NSFW trailer for the grisly thriller remake, Maniac, has been released. The film is based on the 1980 gore-fest, with Frank Khalfoun (P2) behind the camera and Elijah Wood starring. Here’s the plot: ‘Just when the streets seemed safe, a serial killer with a fetish for scalps is back and on the hunt. Frank is the withdrawn owner of a mannequin store, but his life changes when young artist Anna appears asking for his help with her new exhibition. As their friendship develops and Frank’s obsession escalates, it becomes clear that she has unleashed a long-repressed compulsion to stalk and kill.

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The Possession Trailer – Jeffrey Dean Morgan has demonic troubles

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Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Kyra Sedgwick star in the horror-thriller The Possession, about a malicious spirit which is set free after a young girl purchases a seemingly-harmless antique box. The film is due to hit cinemas August 31, but now the trailer has arrived, which is designed to give us the willies while seeming a little bit silly. It’s allegedly based on a true story, but we’ll leave it to you to decide just how true the film is.

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New Prometheus Featurettes – Origin & Creation

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It’s only a couple of weeks until Prometheus finally hits on June 1st, and now a couple of new featurettes have been released to take us deeper into the movie and get us a little bit more excited (if that’s possible). Here’s the synopsis: ‘Ridley Scott, director of ‘Alien’ and ‘Blade Runner’, returns to the genre he helped define. With Prometheus, he creates a groundbreaking mythology, in which a team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a thrilling journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There, they must fight a terrifying battle to save the future of the human race.’

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Jude Law Will Be Dom Hemingway In A New Crime Thriller

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In the mid 2000s Richard Shepard made The Matador and The Hunting Party. They were both good movies but also rather underappreciated, so he’s had to go back to TV for the past few years. Now he’s returning to feature films with Dom Hemingway, and THR reports that Jude Law and Richard E. Grant are set to star.

Dom Hemingway will follow the titular character, a larger than life safecracker with a lose fuse who is also funny, profane and dangerous. Freshly released from prison, he’s looking to collect on what he thinks he’s owed thanks to him keeping quiet about what he knew on his last job. There’s no news on who Grant will play.

Producer Jeremy Thomas is working with Hanway Films and BBC Films to get the movie made, and Shepard is pencilling in an autumn shoot in London.

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Helena Bonham Carter & Kathy Bates Set For Jeunet’s Spivet

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For a little over a year, Jean Pierre Jeunet has been working on his first English-language film since the rather disastrous Alien Resurrection. Now he’s busy putting the cast together, with Variety reporting that Helena Bonham Carter and Kathy Bates are on for the film, The Young And Prodigious Spivet.

Jeunet co-wrote the script regular collaborator Guillaume Laurent, adapting Rief Larson’s novel, The Selected Works Of TS Spivet. The tale is about youngster Spivet (Kyle Catlett), a boy who has extraordinary navigation and other skills, who decides to leave his father (Callum Keith Rennie) and the rest of his family behind in Montana to head out on a cross-country quest to the Smithsonian in Washington to receive a prize. There’s no news on exactly who Bonham Carter and Bates will play, but Variety suggests they’ll have significant roles.

The movie will be shot in 3D, even if it doesn’t sound like the sort of movie that would need an extra dimension. However it sounds like Jeunet is hoping to bring some Amelie style magic and plenty of visual effects to the film, so perhaps 3D will add something. Shooting starts June 30th, with the movie planned for release late in 2013.

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Fisher Stevens Adapting Philip Roth’s American Pastoral

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Who would have thought the funny little guy from Short Circuit would become a respected filmmaker who even won a documentary Oscar for producing The Cove? Now he’s planning a new directorial effort, taking on Philip Roth’s acclaimed novel American Pastoral, according to Variety.

Roth is definitely one of the great men of American letters, but despite attempts such as Portnoy’s Complaint and The Human Stain, his books have proven very tough to turn into decent films. Stevens’ will be hoping he can find a way to make it work with Roth’s 1997 book. The plot follows Seymour ‘Swede’ Levov, a legendary high school athlete who grows up to marry a former beauty queen and inherits his father’s business. Swede’s seemingly perfect life shatters when his daughter rebels by becoming a revolutionary and commits a savage act of political terrorism during the Vietnam War.

It’s a great book, although Roth’s great strength is in painting the internal lives of his characters, something that’s tough to get across on screen. John Romano, who worked on The Lincoln Lawyer, is the one charged with turning the novel into a script. American Pastoral should begin filming next year.

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Joel Edgerton Commits a Felony

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Joel Edgerton wants to prove he’s as good a writer as he is an actor, as he’s written a thriller called Felony, which he’s also set to star in, with Matthew Saville directing. And just so he can fill out his resume a bit more, Edgerton will also produce, according to THR.

Driving home after a celebration drink with his team after the long waited bust of a major gang, a decorated police officer (Edgerton) runs a young cyclist off the road. As he gives CPR to the child, fellow officers arrive to take his statement. In a split second decision he tells them a lie about the accident, a decision that ends up changing all their lives.

The film starts shooting in late October and will be looking or distributors at Cannes over the next few days.

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Greg Mottola Developing The Marriage Plot

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Greg Mottola made his name with comedies like Superbad and Paul, but he’s planning to go in a slightly different direction with a more literary new project, as he’s in early talks to adapt Jeffrey Eugenides’ novel The Marriage Plot for Sony, with Scott Rudin producing.

The film follows a coming-of-age love triangle in the early 1980s. At the centre is a bookish English major caught up between the affections of two men. As the romance of her favourite 19th century love stories begins to seep into her own life, the trio move from college to the real world.

It would be the second adaptation of a Eugenides novel, after Sofia Copolla’s The Firgin Suicides in 1999. (Source: Variety)

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Morgan Freeman Going To Last Vegas

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Every so often Hollywood decides it would be fun to get a lot of old geezers together for a film, and the latest movie doing that is Last Vegas. It already Michael Douglas and Robert De Niro onboard, and now Deadline reports that Morgan Freeman is the latest to enter negotiations for the film.

Directed by Jon Turteltaub (National Treasure) from a screenplay by Dan Fogelman (Crazy Stupid Love), Last Vegas is a comedy about four old friends who decide to throw a Las Vegas bachelor party for the only one of them who has remained single. De Niro will play the party-averse Paddy Connelly, who reluctantly agrees to fly to Vegas at the request of his friends. Douglas will play Billy Gerson, a lifelong bachelor, who has finally decided to take the plunge into marriage.

There’s no news on exactly what character Freeman will play, but production is set to start soon on location in Las Vegas.

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Iron Man 3 Gets James Badge Dale

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Shame and The Grey star James Badge Dale has joined the cast of Iron Man 3, which starts shooting soon. Dale is set take on a villainous role, playing a character who is likely U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Eric Savin, aka Coldblood, according to Deadline.

In the comic books, Colonel Savin is in charge of Project: Ultra-Tech. He steps on a landmine that blows his body to pieces. After being dead for 2.3 minutes, he is brought back to life as a cyborg and becomes an urban soldier who freelances as a mercenary. Though on the side of good in the comics, Savin will apparently be going villainous in Iron Man 3.

Iron Man 3 begins shooting this month in North Carolina

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