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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 …

Chris Geidner has interviewed the filmmakers at Buzzfeed. The movie debuts at 9PM tonight on HBO.

From the Kickstarter page: Road to Home will follow a half dozen young LGBT people who turned to the streets after being rejected by their families. Having been in production for the last year, we have met a number of people who have allowed us into their lives and have agreed to be filmed. Through the use of observational footage, …

Close Encounters was a horror movie? Big version.

Via Splitsider: Disney and Warner Bros. are currently working on a sequel to the Father of the Bride franchise with Steve Martin slated to return. The first two Father of the Bride films were in 1991 and 1995, but the in-the-works sequel will focus on Matty (originally played by Kieran Culkin), the son of Martin’s character, who “is now 29 …

This one is set in New York City. SyFy executives have so far ignored suggestions to make Bearvalanche, Ottergeddon, and Shih Tzumami.

Directed by Ron Howard.

Via the Guardian: He has tackled the Kennedy assassination and the Watergate break-in, the Vietnam conflict and the Bush administration’s “war on terror”. Now the Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone is set to whip up fresh controversy with his adaptation of The Snowden Files, an account of the ongoing NSA scandal written by the Guardian journalist Luke Harding. Stone’s thriller will …

Clip recap: What “Paris is Burning” was to drag balls – “What’s the T?” is to transgender life – a documentary that explores the challenges, successes and lives of five transgender women; a multi-character study and an introduction to the uninitiated.The movie officially premieres on Hulu June 22, but shhh, you can see it now. Click to watch on Hulu. …

The clip is wrongly dated. The film opens this October. Without warning, millions of people around the globe simply vanish. All that remains are their clothes and belongings … and an overwhelming sense of terror. The vanishings cause unmanned vehicles to crash and burn. Emergency forces everywhere are devastated. Gridlock, riots and looting overrun the cities. And there is no …

Clip recap: “They’re up all night for good fun, they’re up all night to make a living.” They are the men of LA BARE. A documentary film that goes behind the curtain, behind the stage and behind the magic of the world’s most popular male strip club — La Bare Dallas. Featuring a unique ensemble of the club’s most popular …

Stay out of the comments if you’ve not seen last night’s debut of The Normal Heart. Otherwise dive in and give us your thoughts.

Note: This is as gory as you’d expect.

Clip description: Billy Wilder takes a sardonic look at Hollywood’s past in the classic “SUNSET BLVD” (1950). The film stars William Holden, Nancy Olsen, Erich Von Stroheim and in the greatest comeback in motion picture history, Gloria Swanson as silent screen star Norma Desmond. Based on an Oscar winning original screenplay by Wilder and writing partner Charles Bracket, it tells …

Via the Associated Press: The director of a movie based on the Malaysian Airlines plane disappearance is apologizing for a trailer that suggests a love triangle among members of its crew. Rupesh Paul announced “The Vanishing Act” at the Cannes Film Festival. A brief trailer for the film, which has not yet been cast, shows two crew members kissing as …

Waters drops an interesting tidbit about Allen Ginsberg.

The HBO movie debuts on Sunday at 9PM.