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From the studio headed by LA Law actor Corbin Bernsen: Gwyneth Hayden is a 30-something marketing executive with a top-notch career, killer wardrobe, dream apartment and great friends. She thinks the only thing missing is a man. In a moment of inspired desperation, she fills out a profile on the dating website ChristianMingle.com hoping to find Mr. Right. However, Gwyneth …

Featuring a very buff Nick Jonas.

From the recap: “Into the Woods” is a modern twist on the beloved Brothers Grimm fairy tales, intertwining the plots of a few choice stories and exploring the consequences of the characters’ wishes and quests. This humorous and heartfelt musical follows the classic tales of Cinderella (Anna Kendrick), Little Red Riding Hood (Lilla Crawford), Jack and the Beanstalk (Daniel Huttlestone), …

Documentary filmmakers for a project titled Reel In The Closet are seeking your home movies that might help catalog LGBT history. If you want to feel the past not just read about it, watch the home movies and videos. Look at the community shows LGBTQ people put together. Watch the clips they saved. They go at least as far back …

Variety reports that GOP Florida state Sen. Alan Hays plans to introduce a bill that would require that all public high school and middle school students watch the latest movie by Christianist filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza. The plan is sure to draw fire from liberals not only because D’Souza is a prominent conservative but because he is also behind the movie, …

IO9 raves: Now you can see first Mad Max: Fury Road trailer, unveiled yesterday at Comic-Con, with your own eyes. It’s full of gorgeous deserts, blooming smoke bombs the color of bruises, and a giant dust storm that looms over the landscape like a terrestrial tsunami. Dystopia has never looked so desolate and fascinating. This is the kind of trailer …

Via Rolling Stone: The first trailer for Fifty Shades of Grey has arrived in all its scintillating, hyper-sexualized glory. Though if you’re hoping for a montage of steamy footage from the boudoir and/or BDSM dungeon, you’ll have to settle for a fleeting few snippets at the end. Still it’s got plenty of exposition, if that’s what you’re into. The trailer, …

Opening on November 21st: In THE IMITATION GAME, Benedict Cumberbatch stars as Alan Turing, the genius British mathematician, logician, cryptologist and computer scientist who led the charge to crack the German Enigma Code that helped the Allies win WWII. Turing went on to assist with the development of computers at the University of Manchester after the war, but was prosecuted …

Via the New York Times: James Garner, the wry and handsome leading man who slid seamlessly between television and the movies but was best known as the amiable gambler Bret Maverick in the 1950s western “Maverick” and the cranky sleuth Jim Rockford in the 1970s series “The Rockford Files,” was found dead in his California home on Saturday night, the …

From the press materials: Ever wondered what it might look like if a science fiction film presented LGBT people the way it should be done? The trailer for #Credence, the first Sci-Fi of it’s kind to challenge the way gay characters are portrayed, has launched today. Released as part of an IndieGogo campaign raising budget to help finish the film …

Filmmaker Tyler Perry has won the battle over the trademark of the phrase “What Would Jesus Do?” Via the Hollywood Reporter: The other contestant in this bout was Kimberly Kearney, who was once known as “Poprah” on the VH1 series, I Want to Work for Diddy. In May 2008, Perry registered the mark in the category of entertainment services, mentioning …

IMDB has the synopsis: It’s the summer of 1984. Margaret Thatcher is in power and the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) is on strike. At the Gay Pride March in London, a group of gay and lesbian activists decides to raise money to support the families of the striking miners. But there is a problem. The Union seems embarrassed to …

Clip description: The underside of Gay Hollywood history is examined with love, sensitivity and a lot of humor in Bill Condon’s brilliant “Gods and Monsters” (1999). Starring Ian McKellen as veteran, gay, Brit director James Whale and Brendan Fraser as a beautiful, young, gardener he takes a fancy to, the film deals with the relations ship that develops between these …

Movie recap: A hilarious and moving look at legendary actor, activist and pop culture icon George Takei, who has conquered new frontiers from outer space to Capitol Hill with his trademark grin. Oh, my! Director: Jennifer M. Kroot. Actors: George Takei, Brad Takei, William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Nichelle Nichols, Howard Stern, Dan Savage, Walter Koenig. The film opens on August …

Rick Santorum’s EchoLight Studios has yet another “Christians are being persecuted” movie coming out in September. This one features Mike Huckabee. And Nazis!

NPR interviewed the filmmakers yesterday: In 2009, Forbes designer Yves Saint Laurent the “Top-Earning Dead Celebrity” of the year. (Surely a bittersweet distinction.) Now, Saint Laurent’s success — and how it was shaped and fed by his lover and manager Pierre Berge — is the subject of the new film Yves Saint Laurent. In it, their relationship is both interactive …

Variety recaps: “Love Is Strange,” which stars John Lithgow and Alfred Molina, doesn’t have the set up you’d expect for a film about a newlywed couple. Instead, the film is about a recently married same-sex couple adjusting to separate living situations. The modern-day love story centers on Ben, a Catholic school teacher (Molina) who is fired after he and his …