LGBTQ news and entertainment
My husband Michael has seen every Planet of the Apes movie at least 5 times. We will be seeing this.
Synopsis: A growing nation of genetically evolved apes led by Caesar is threatened by a band of human survivors of the devastating virus unleashed a decade earlier. They reach a fragile peace, but it proves short-lived, as both sides are brought to the brink of a war that will determine who will emerge as Earth’s dominant species.
Opens July 11, 2014.
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My man Chris Evans’ latest movie – Captain America: The Winter Soldier – continued to top the box office this weekend as the Marvel super-hero flick added another $26.6 million to its current $201.5 million domestic total.
Rounding out the top 5 were:
2. Rio 2 – another $22.5 million for a $75.3 million total to date
3. Heaven Is For Real – $21.5 million
4. Johnny Depp sci-fi thriller Transcendence came in at $11.1 million
5. A Haunted House 2 starring Marlon Wayons and Jaime Pressley earned $9.1 million
The Broadway mega-hit becomes a major movie this summer.
Starring Tony Award-winner John Lloyd Young. Opens June 20th.
From the clip description:
A musical biography of the Four Seasons-the rise, the tough times and personal clashes, and the ultimate triumph of a group of friends whose music became symbolic of a generation.
Give it up for Chris Evans and company, as the new Marvel flick Captain America: The Winter Soldier flexed some super-hero muscles to break April box office records with a $93 million debut in the US.
From the Hollywood Reporter:
Winning over critics and moviegoers alike, Marvel and Disney’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier grossed $37 million from 3,938 theaters on Friday, the biggest day ever for the month of April, not accounting for inflation. The superhero sequel is expected to earn $93 million-plus for the weekend, also an April best.
Overseas, where it opened ahead of its North American launch, the $170 million tentpole has already earned $132.2 million and should finish Sunday with a whopping global total of $270 million or more — only $100 million behind the $370.6 million earned by Captain America: The First Avenger in its entire run. So far, Captain America 2 is pacing 40 percent ahead of the first film, which debuted in May 2011.
Coming in at number two, the biblical epic Noah fell nearly 60% in it’s second weekend.
I’m not usually one for violent movies, but I just like watching this. Gorgeous visual approach.
Based on the graphic novel, it really is art brought to life.
And then there’s the man-candy.
“300: Rise of an Empire” opens in theaters this weekend.
Southern Baptist Sissies is the live film of the GLAAD Award winning play by Del Shores.
In 2000, Del Shores wrote a play called Southern Baptist Sissies exposing the painful journey of growing up gay in a church that preaches it is a sin. It has been produced by over 30 theatre companies across the country, and won countless awards for Del’s productions and for other productions as well, including the GLAAD Award for Best Los Angeles theatre.
In 2006, a national tour starring Leslie Jordan, Dale Dickey and Delta Burke played to sold out houses across the country.
The film is a live production of the actual play. Del Shores updated the script and directed the play with multiple cameras in front of live audiences, and then filmed additional days for close-ups and coverage to make it so the final film feels as though it was shot in one live show with fifteen cameras.
The film will be released in select theaters February 21st.
Synopsis:
Southern Baptist Sissies is the story of four boys who are gay growing up in the Southern Baptist Church and how they each deal differently with the conflict between the teachings of the church and their sexuality.
Chris Evans returns as the First Avenger April 4 in Marvel’s “Captain America: The Winter Soldier”
The Hollywood Reporter has details:
Robert De Niro the actor has never been particularly forthcoming about his personal life — nor anything else, for that matter. The very private New York-based Oscar winner rarely gives interviews or shows up at events.
But for the first time, he reveals a great deal of his youth and upbringing, his early family life, and his relationship with his father, the late figurative painter Robert De Niro Sr., in Remembering the Artist Robert De Niro Sr.
It will make its television debut in June on HBO, and its Sundance debut was met with enthusiasm, curiosity — and surprise. Robert De Niro Sr., we learn, was part of the post WWII set of New York painters — Jackson Pollack, Lee Krasner, etc — and he enjoyed initial success by being championed by Peggy Guggenheim at her New York gallery Art of This Century in the ’50s.
Actor De Niro appears in the film, reading from his father’s very personal journals (which reveal he left De Niro’s mother, also a painter, when he realized he was gay) and talking about watching his father paint as a child.
From the clip description: “”Maleficent” explores the untold story of Disney’s most iconic villain from the 1959 classic Sleeping Beauty and the elements of her betrayal that ultimately turn her pure heart to stone.
Driven by revenge and a fierce desire to protect the moors over which she presides, Maleficent (Jolie) cruelly places an irrevocable curse upon the human king’s newborn infant Aurora.
As the child grows, Aurora (Fanning) is caught in the middle of the seething conflict between the forest kingdom she has grown to love and the human kingdom that holds her legacy.
Maleficent realizes that Aurora may hold the key to peace in land and is forced to take drastic actions that will change both worlds forever.”
To be read from the bottom up, the following is an account by the “Arclight Police” detailing an evening at the Los Angeles Arclight movie theater where apparently Diana Ross’ daughter – Tracee Ellis Ross – was extremely annoying to other movie goers due to her frequent use of her phone during the 10:35 screening of “Her” on December 14th.
This was posted by my fellow blogger Kenneth in the 212 who makes a point to say this isn’t about shaming Tracee Ellis Ross so much as it is to bring attention to the fact that there are many, many “Tracee Ellis Ross'” out there who behave in much the same fashion.
I personally love the detail to the whole ordeal. Click the images to enlarge.
Do you see this kind of behavior when you’re out at the movies?
