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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

Jonah Hill In Talks For Scorsese’s Wolf Of Wall Street

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A couple of weeks ago Martin Scorsese announced that the long-gestating Wolf Of Wall Street would be his next movie, and now she’s busy filling out the cast ahead on a summer shoot. Variety reports that Jonah Hill has entered into negotiations to join the movie, which Leo DiCaprio is already set to star in.

The drama is based on the autobiography of Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio), who made millions as a fraudulent stock broker operating out of Long Island. He spent 20 months in prison for his role in a massive securities fraud that involved widespread Wall Street corruption.

Hill will play Danny Porush, Belfort’s best friend who convinced him to quit his menial job as a furniture salesman and become a stock broker. The true story also served as the inspiration for the 2000 financial drama Boiler Room.

Martin Scorsese is directing from an adapted screenplay by Boardwalk Empire creator Terence Winter. Production is scheduled to begin this August in New York City.

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Sofia Vergara To Play Leather-Clad Mistress In Machete Kills

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Sofía Vergara has found a lot of fans for both her beauty and comedy acting thanks to Modern Family, but now she’s going in a slightly less funny direction, as Variety reports she’s in negotiations to join the action sequel Machete Kills for director Robert Rodriguez.

The actress will portray Madame Desdemona, a leather-clad mistress whose harlots have information for Machete (Danny Trejo). She joins a growing cast which also includes Mel Gibson, Michelle Rodriguez, Jessica Alba, Amber Heard, and Demián Bichir.

Robert Rodriguez is directing from his own original screenplay. Production is scheduled to begin very soon in Austin, Texas.

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Win The Original Dark Shadows TV Series On DVD!

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On May 11th, Tim Burton and Johnny Depp bring their new take on Dark Shadows to cinema. However, the only reason we’re getting that is because Burton & Depp were inspired to make a new version of a creepy late-1960s US TV soap opera they both love.

Now Metrodome is giving us a chance to take a look at that supernatural show, which follows the fortunes of the weird and wonderful Collins family, by releasing a three disc box set containing 20 ‘Barnabas Collins’ episodes of the original Dark Shadows supernatural TV show. It’s out to buy now.

We’ve got two copies of the box set to give away, so that you can get a taste of the supernatural show that inspired the new movie. It’s great fun and if you’d like to try and win one of the two copies of Dark Shadows that we’ve got to give away, answer the question below and fill in your details, then press submit! The competition closes on May 17th, so get answering and good luck!

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Keep The Lights On Trailer – Take a look at the gay-themed festival hit

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Keep The Lights On has been having a successful festival run, screening at Sundance, Berlin and most recently Tribeca. Now a short but sexy trailer for the gay themed film has arrived. Here’s the synopsis: ‘It’s 1997 and New York City is in a state of intense flux when documentary filmmaker Erik Rothman (Thure Lindhardt) first meets Paul Lucy (Zachary Booth), a handsome but closeted lawyer in the publishing field. What begins as a highly charged first encounter soon becomes something much more, and a relationship quickly develops. As the two men start building a home and life together, each continues to privately battle their own compulsions and addictions. A film about sex, friendship, intimacy and most of all, love, Keep the Lights On takes an honest look at the nature of relationships in our times.’

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Mumbai Free Queer Film Festival Seeks Crowd-Funding

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A free LGBT film festival in a country that’s still struggling with issues surrounding homosexuality is a great idea, but of course it costs a lot of money to put on. Kashish, the most mainstream queer film festival in Mumbai, is now turning to crowd-funding to try and make its vision of free access to gay movies a reality.

The idea of the festival is to encourage, ‘greater visibility of Indian and International queer cinema among both queer and mainstream audiences as a means to foster better understanding of queer thoughts, desires and expressions’. It runs from 23rd to 27th May and plans to show 120 films, all for free.

Festival co-director Sridhar Rangayan says: ‘The idea for crowd funding Kashish was more of a necessity, because with no government support and not too many corporates yet enthused about supporting a queer event, we felt it was time to involve the community.

‘The film festival is a not-for-profit event and one of few festivals of its kind in the world that does not charge ticket prices or a registration fee. We are committed to keep the festival free this year too and to achieve this we thought what better way than crowd-funding.’

If you’d like to help out with this great idea, you can head over to the festival’s crowd-funding page.

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True Blood’s Anna Paquin Talks Bisexuality

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It seems almost ridiculous that in this day and age someone still need to defend being bisexual form those who refuse to believe it’s possible to be attracted to people of both genders, but Anna Paquin obviously feels there’s a reason to.

After having first talked about her bisexuality in a PSA in 2009, she’s recently told Zooey magazine, “I’m sure for some people saying they’re bisexual feels less scary than making a statement that they’re gay. ‘or me, it’s not really an issue because I’m someone who believes being bisexual is actually a thing.

“It’s not made up. It’s not a lack of decision. It’s not being greedy or numerous other ignorant things I’ve heard at this point. For a bisexual, it’s not about gender. That’s not the deciding factor for who they’re attracted to.”

I’ve often thought those who refuse to believe in bisexuality either have a lack of imagination simply because they can’t imagine themselves being attracted to both genders, or they’ve had bad experiences with someone who was bisexual and generalised from there. However as Anna says, it is ‘a thing’.

The True Blood star is currently expecting her first child with co-star and hubby Stephen Moyer.

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iLL Manors Trailer – Ben ‘Plan B’ Drew’s directorial debut

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At the age of only 28, Ben ‘Plan B’ Drew is busy being quite the renaissance man. He’s taken the music world by storm, proved a capable actor in the likes of Adulthood and Harry Brown, and now he’s written and directed iLL Manors. The movie is out June 6th, and now the full trailer is available. Here’s the synopsis: ‘A unique crime thriller set on the unforgiving streets of London, iLL MANORS follows six disparate lives, all struggling to survive the circles of violence that engulf them. There is ex-dealer Kirby, who has just been released from prison, thug Ed who will stop at nothing to find his missing phone, troubled Michelle who is just looking for her next hit, young Jake who finds himself drawn to the local gang, Chris, who seeks revenge, Katya, who is desperately trying to escape this foreign land, and Aaron, our main protagonist who is just trying to do the right thing. Narratively linked through original music from Plan B, the film is a visually stunning and emotionally impactful experience, laced with street-wise humour. Ground-breaking in its approach, iLL MANORS proves to be one of the must-see films of 2012.’

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End Of Watch Trailer

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Jake Gyllenhaal is certainly trying out a new look in End Of Watch, with his hair completely shaved off as he goes cop and heads out onto the mean streets. The film stars Gyllenhaal and Michael Pena as two LAPD cops who take pride in their work and friendship, but one day see their lives come under even more threat than usual. The trailer suggests the movie is going to try and put you in thick of the action, almost like it’s a documentary. The film is out in September.

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Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter Featurette – Origins Of A Superhero

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Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter looks like it’s going to be a lot of fun, and now a new featurette has emerged, which treats the US President’s story as if in real-life he really was battling bloodsuckers and was essentially ‘the Batman of the 19th Century’. There’s also plenty of great footage from the film, which arrives in cinemas on August 2nd. The film reimagines Lincoln as a man driven by an insatiable hatred of the vampires who killed his mother and whose rise to the top on the US was all about battling the supernatural.

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The Expendables 2 Trailer

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If you thought the action crew in The Expendables was good, The Expendables 2 plans to blow it out of the water, and the new trailer is here to prove it. Barney Ross (Sylvester Stallone), Lee Christmas (Jason Statham), Yin Yang (Jet Li), Gunnar Jensen (Dolph Lundgren),Toll Road (Randy Couture) and Hale Caesar (Terry Crews) are back – alongside new members Billy the Kid (Liam Hemsworth) and Maggie (Yu Nan) – are reunited when Mr. Church (Bruce Willis) enlists the Expendables to take on a seemingly simple job. The task looks like an easy paycheck for Barney and his band of old-school mercenaries. But when things go wrong and one of their own is viciously killed, the Expendables are compelled to seek revenge in hostile territory where the odds are stacked against them. Hell-bent on payback, the crew cuts a swath of destruction through opposing forces, wreaking havoc and shutting down an unexpected threat in the nick of time – six tons of weapons-grade plutonium; enough to change the balance of power in the world. But that’s nothing compared to the justice they serve against the villainous adversary who savagely murdered their brother. The film’s out August 17th.

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Kellan Lutz To Be Motion-Capture Tarzan

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Although there’s been a lot of interest in the supporting actors from Twilight, the only one of them to have real success outside the franchise is Anna Kendrick, who was Oscar-nominated for Up In The Air. However the hunk of muscle that is Kellan Lutz certainly looks like an action star, and now he’s going performance-capture, playing Tarzan in a new CG take on the classic tale, according to Deadline.

Lutz will play the man brought up by chimps in the jungle, with the motion-capture technology allowing him to swing through the trees like never before. Resident Evil: Afterlife actress Spencer Locke is in talks to play Jane in the film.

Reinhard Klooss (Animals United) will direct, with Constantin Films backing the movie.

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Robert Pattinson Takes On The Rover Alongside Guy Pearce

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Robert Pattinson is gonna go chasing cars with Guy Pearce, or at least they will if they both finalise deals to star in The Rover, which the duo are currently in talks for, according to Deadline.

The film apparently ‘chronicles a man who relentlessly pursues a gang who stole his car through the wild and rough Australian outback of the near future’. It sounds a bit like Pattinson is a Mad Max fan and wants to make his own version.

It’s interesting that this is the second action/thriller project from Pattinson we’ve heard about in the past two days, as yesterday news came through that he was planning to play the interrogator who led the hunt for Saddam Hussein. It suggests an attempt to shift the perception of R-Patz away from romance to the potentially more lucrative action arena. We’ll have to see whether it works.

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