Posts Tagged ‘James Franco’

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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3 Gay Men and a Baby (again)

I always thought Three Men and a Baby WAS a gay movie. Seriously, three white collar, middle aged guys living together in a fabulous Manhattan apartment. And was there ever a whiff of female love interest for any of the guys?
I either dreamt it or read it somewhere recently that there are sinister plans for [...]

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All About Dekker

Is 22-year-old Thomas Dekker modelling himself on James Franco? He might not yet be filling galleries with questionable artwork, but lately he’s been working with drag queens and has a fondness for playing gay. He also shares Franco’s love of mixing the commercial mainstream with more Avant-garde projects.
So the equally brooding young star of Heroes, [...]

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2 gay actors (and a ?) in today’s news

London’s Metro newspaper has a bitchy interview with Rupert Everett in which their journo asks the questions that she knows Rupes won’t want to be asked and then gets annoyed because he doesn’t want to answer them. It seems there’s only two things we ever want to know about Everett: is Madonna still on speed [...]

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Cannes films up for gay movie award

As an example of the dangers of crossing languages, this year’s inaugural gay movie award at Cannes is to be called the Queer Palm; an unfortunate title for anyone offended by the notion that being gay equals a limp wrist.
On the plus side, there’s some promising gay themed movies and shorts showing at this month’s [...]

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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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James Franco directs gay movie short (NSFW)

The feast of Stephen: Extrait court métrage de James FrancoUploaded by GayClic. – Watch feature films and entire TV shows.
James Franco must have one frustrated agent, and I can imagine a conversation between said agent and the Hollywood star might go something like this:
Agent: Thanks for finally returning my calls, James. Congrats on the Sundance [...]

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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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