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Courtesy of the film’s producers, this week’s Swag Tuesday prize is the DVD of the Oscar-nominated AIDS documentary, How To Survive A Plague, which goes on sale nationwide on February 26th. HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE is the story of the brave young men and women who successfully reversed the tide of an epidemic, demanded the attention of a fearful …

Ooh, the One Million Moms aren’t gonna like this.

Just keep swimming, just keep swimming. Ellen DeGeneres has agreed to reprise her popular role in a sequel to the 2003 smash, Finding Nemo. According to the LA Times, DeGeneres has agreed play everyone’s favorite blue tang fish with short-term memory loss again. Rumors regarding the sequel to the Pixar/Disney film have been swimming around for years but were finally …

The New York Times reports on this week’s hottest viral video, a spoof of Les Miz (or tribute to, depending on your view) created by the South Korean air force. In the 13-minute South Korean version, the nemesis is a taskmaster officer who keeps his exhausted conscripts clearing snow — a chore that many young South Korean men face while …

Embiggen this 2013 Oscar nominees photo and play “Where’s Waldo” to pick out the stars amongst all the producers and other behind-the-scenes folks. I see Bradley Cooper, Anne Hathaway, Robert DeNiro, Steven Spielberg, Sally Field, and….that’s about it. A bigger version is at the link. (Via Peter Staley)

Courtesy of the Karpel Group, today’s Swag Tuesday prize is the 40th anniversary deluxe Blu-ray reissue of Cabaret, which goes on sale nationwide on February 5th. Bob Fosse’s ground-breaking Oscar®-winning musical drama starring Liza Minnelli (Arthur, The Sterile Cuckoo), Michael York (the Austin Powers films), Joel Grey (TV’s “Oz”), Helmut Griem, and Marisa Berenson (I am Love). Flamboyant and eccentric …

Also from James Franco and also debuting this weekend at Sundance. Via press release: Director Christina Voros and producer James Franco pull back the curtain on the fetish empire of Kink.com, the Internet’s largest producer of BDSM content. In a particularly obscure corner of an industry that operates largely out of public view, Kink.com’s directors and models strive for authenticity. …

Clip description: The 1980 film Cruising, starring Al Pacino as an undercover cop investigating a murder in the New York City gay, leather, bar scene, was plagued with controversy, and its director was forced by the Motion Picture Association of America to cut 40 minutes of sexually explicit material. Those 40 minutes have never been screened publicly. Filmmakers James Franco …

Opening at Sundance this weekend. Clip description: God Loves Uganda, a documentary by Academy Award winning director and producer Roger Ross Williams, is a powerful exploration of the evangelical campaign to change African culture with values imported from America’s Christian Right. The film follows American and Ugandan religious leaders fighting “sexual immorality” and missionaries trying to convince Ugandans to follow …

Best Motion Picture (Drama)   Argo Best Motion Picture (Musical or Comedy)   Les Miserables Best Director  Ben Affleck, Argo  Best Actor (Drama)  Daniel Day-Lewis, Lincoln  Best Actress  (Drama)  Jessica Chastain, Zero Dark Thirty Best Actor (Musical or Comedy)  Hugh Jackman, Les Miserables Best Actress (Musical or Comedy)  Jennifer Lawrence, Silver Linings Playbook Best Supporting Actor (Motion Picture)  Christoph Waltz, Django …

The critically-raved AIDS documentary How To Survive A Plague was among the Oscar nominations today in the Best Documentary category. The film’s star, activist Peter Staley, issued a one-word response this morning on his Facebook page: “YAY!!”

BEST PICTURE Amour  Argo  Beasts of the Southern Wild  Django Unchained   Les Misérables   Life of Pi Lincoln  Silver Linings Playbook  Zero Dark Thirty BEST DIRECTOR Amour – Michael Haneke Beasts of the Southern Wild – Benh Zeitlin Life of Pi – Ang Lee Lincoln – Steven Spielberg Silver Linings Playbook – David O. Russell BEST ACTOR Bradley Cooper – Silver …

As he did a few weeks ago for television actors, Boy Culture blogger Matt Rettenmund has begun counting down the hottest men of the big screen. Click over and make the case for your own favorites.

Directed by Pedro Almodovar.

(Via Boy Culture)

Courtesy of the filmmakers, this week’s Swag Tuesday prize is Bear City 2, which is now available on DVD and Blu-Ray. Kathy Najimy plays den mother to the returning cast of bears, boys and cubs, for a Bear Week bachelor party in Provincetown! Kevin Smith, Lt. Dan Choi, Frank DeCaro, Mike Ruiz and Varla Jean Merman, lend their support to …

Some physicists are trying to determine if we are actually living in the Matrix. In 2003, University of Oxford philosophy professor Nick Bostrom published a paper, “The Simulation Argument,” which argued that, “we are almost certainly living in a computer simulation.” Now, a team at Cornell University says it has come up with a viable method for testing whether we’re …