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Tired Old Queen at the Movies #120

Clip recap: THE BLUE DAHLIA (1946) In their third noir together, the romantic team of Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake unravel a murder mystery in George Marshall’s “The Blue Dahlia” (1946). Raymond Chandler’s only original screenplay is set in LA near the end of the war. Ladd plays a returning veteran, with a faithless wife, who’s murdered, leaving him to …

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TRAILER: Hercules

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Lady Gaga – Aura

Also an ad for Machete Kills.

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Telekinetic Coffee Shop Surprise

Sneaky ad for the Carrie remake. 3.7M views in one day.

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TRAILER: American Jesus

Opening this week at the Woodstock Film Festival. Source.

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Cameron Flick Grosses $2M In One Night

Kirk Cameron’s new movie asks (and presumably answers) why God kills the fuck out of millions of people every year even though he loves them so fucking much. Here’s how things went when the movie debuted this week. Kirk Cameron’s latest independently financed faith-based film, Unstoppable — which ran on 700 screens Tuesday as part of a one-night live event …

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Size Comparisons Of Sci-Fi Spaceships

Source. Huge version. I actually recognize about 20 of these.

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Madonna – Secret Project Revolution

After months of snippets and teasers, it’s finally out. The Toronto Star reviews: The film, co-created with Steven Klein, runs 17 minutes and features Madonna playing both a prisoner and a jailer (and sometimes looking like Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS) being thrown into a cell, then shooting fellow decoratively draped prisoners. There’s some beautiful dancing and it’s all …

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Daniel Radcliffe: I Won’t Play Freddie

“There is no truth to it at all. It’s one of those very, very funny things: it came out of a story in the Daily Star and then you see newspapers like The Guardian using The Star as their source, and it grows and grows [until] it’s ‘Dan Radcliffe is playing Freddie Mercury!’, which I was never going to do. …

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TRAILER: Don Hemingway

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Daniel Radcliffe As Freddie Mercury?

The Guardian reports: Daniel Radcliffe is the latest name in the frame for the planned film biopic of the late Queen singer Freddie Mercury, it has been reported. The Daily Star claimed a source told the paper: “Daniel has been told the part is his if he wants it.” Radcliffe’s possible casting follows the news in July that original star …

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The Gay Braveheart Battle Speech

Buzzfeed’s Copyranter writes: Every September, Lisbon hosts Queer Lisboa, “the sole Portuguese Film Festival dedicated exclusively to screening gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and transsexual themed films.” And every year, for several years now, Queer Lisboa comes out with an epic promo video ad. Last year, it was “The Death of the Gay Cliche.” In 2011, it was “Mister Pink,” a …

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Magneto Marries Professor X

Last week Ian McKellen officiated at the wedding of Patrick Stewart to Sunny Ozell in Lake Tahoe, Nevada.

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TRAILER: Unhung Hero

A “cockumentary” that asks, “Does size matter?” Including an appearance by Dan Savage. (Tipped by JMG reader TeeJay)

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TRAILER: Generation Iron

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TRAILER: Last Days On Mars

Contagion + 28 Days Later?

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TRAILER: Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom

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TRAILER: August: Osage County

New trailer and more Oscar buzz for Streep.

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NORTH CAROLINA: Orson Scott Card Appointed To Board Of PBS Affiliate

Anti-gay science fiction author and former NOM board member Orson Scott Card has been appointed to the board of trustees for UNC-TV, the University of North Carolina’s PBS affiliate that broadcasts over 12 stations into four states. “We are pleased to welcome Mr. Card to the UNC-TV Board of Trustees,” said Robb Teer, chairman of the UNC-TV Board of Trustees, …

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TRAILER: Robocop

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