Posts Tagged ‘Howl’

Sunday trailer park

Plenty of stuff to watch today, starting with this teaser trailer for still-recovering-from-the-wrap-party gay movie comedy, Buffering. Self-described as a ‘ram-com’, it follows an enterprising gay couple’s plan to beat the recession, which also seems to have hit the wardrobe budget on this movie! Looks a riot.
If you skip over to Apple’s Movie Trailers page [...]

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Gay film fest news plus a gay McDonalds ad

Some gay film festival news for movie fans in the US and UK today. Variety reports on the selection for L.A.’s Outfest (8th – 18th July) with opening night honours predictably going to James Franco-starrer Howl, while High School intersex comedy, Spork, brings things to a close on Gala Night.
Sandwiched in between are 60 gay [...]

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Friday gay movie news round-up

U.S. fans of James Franco will be able to see him ‘do’ gay poet Allen Ginsberg in Howl from 24 September. The movie has just been picked up for distribution and will be released simultaneously in limited theaters and VOD…
…Gay director Bryan Singer risks some harmless innuendo with his latest project, a re-imagining of the [...]

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Another gay movie hit from Sundance

Future gay movie, Howl, might have been lighting up from all the flash-bulbs at last month’s Sundance Film Festival – it helps a lot having James Franco as your star – but another, very understated, gay movie was quietly winning awards and praise.
Undertow (Contracorriente) is a new gay movie from Peru about a young, married [...]

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Sundance, Howl and Prop 8

1950’s American conservatism and prejudice collided with its 21st Century descendent at this year’s Sundance Film Festival as two very different gay movies, Howl and 8: The Mormon Proposition, both premiered.
James Franco and Jon Hamm starer Howl is about the obscenity trial that was brought against gay poet Allen Ginsberg in 1957 after the [...]

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Gay movie preview 2010

This year is shaping up to be a good’en for gay movies. I’ve put together a list of some that I’m looking forward to in 2010, and you should be too…
…The producers of Make the Yuletide Gay leave the camp comedy behind and step in a different direction with Sticke Figures, a drama about a [...]

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Could James Franco get any more gay friendly?

I’m not alone in counting gay movie, My Own Private Idaho, as teen inspiration. The lovely actor James Franco tells The New York Times in the clip below that this movie made him want to act – could the Milk star get any more gay -friendly?
Yes he could! He stars in what’s looking like one [...]

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