Colin Firth wins Best Actor at the Venice film festival (A Single Man spotted)

{FILM SPOTTING}
A Single Man (USA, 2009)
Release Date (worldwide): Unknown at this time…
Runtime: 99′
Director: Tom Ford
Cast: Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, Matthew Goode, Ginnifer Goodwin, Nicholas Hoult
Production House: Artina Films, Depth of Field, Fade to Black Productions
Plot: (from imdb)
A story that centers on an English professor who, after the sudden death of his partner tries to go [...]

Tom Felton at DragonCon

More and more clips of Tom Felton at DragonCon are popping up on youtube and it just defies belief lol It’s a really crazy interview. From what I can make out, at this time clips of two Q&A sessions have appeared. Two more sessions are still to come I think.
The first Q&A did not receive [...]

Tom Felton on the Harry/Draco phenomenon

Tom Felton is doing publicity at Dragoncon in Atlanta at the moment. And finally the fans there have asked what I’ve always wanted to hear ;) Kind of amusing that he’s not had that question pop up in any of the interviews I’ve seen of his before (then again I’ve never heard Daniel Radcliffe being [...]

Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell - debating the controversial American military policy

Friday, 14 August 2009, 12:20 | Category : Crumbs, Politics, Human Rights & Other Serious Stuff
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Just a short Al Jazeera news report on the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy and how Barack Obama has promised gay men equal rights to serve in the military, but still hasn’t delivered on it.

ENH film festival: Saturday, 1st August 2009

{FILM DIARY}
60 years of WFDiF (Poland, 1947-1958)
Production House: WFDiF
Plot: The festival programmed two sets of films commemorating 60 years of activity of Poland’s biggest production house. I watched the first set which included: Powódź (Poland, 1947), Błękitny Krzyż (Poland, 1955), Spacerek Staromiejski (Poland, 1958), Pamiątka z Kalwarii (Poland, 1958) and three shorts by Walerian Borowczyk [...]

Brüno - the most vulgar comedy ever made or the most daring social experiment ever attempted?

{FILM DIARY}
Brüno (USA, 2009)
Seen: Saturday, 18th July 2009 (cinema)
Runtime: 81′
Director: Larry Charles
Cast: Sacha Baron Cohen, Gustaf Hammarsten
Production House: Everyman Pictures, Four by Two, Media Rights Capital
Plot: Brüno is a gay Austrian fashion journalist… or was one until a very embarrassing accident after which the fashion world completely isolates him. It is then that he decides [...]

The frustrations of homoerotic vampire movies that don’t get homoerotic enough ;) (The Brotherhood reviewed)

I’m really behind with my blog *sigh* - even my “film diary” is suffering :-/
{FILM DIARY}
The Brotherhood (USA, 2001)
Seen: Saturday, 4th July 2009
Runtime: 85′
Director: David DeCoteau
Cast: Sam Page, Josh Hammond, Bradley Stryker, Elizabeth Bruderman
Production House: Rapid Heart Pictures, Regent Entertainment
Plot: The “Doma (House of) Tau Omega” fraternity wants to recruit Chris really badly (he’s so [...]

Herds of gay samurais (Gohatto reviewed)

{FILM DIARY}
Gohatto (Japan/France/UK, 1999)
Seen: Monday, 22nd June 2009 (DVD, repeat viewing)
Runtime: 100′
Director: Nagisa Oshima
Cast: Takeshi Kitano, Ryuhei Matsuda, Shinji Takeda, Tadanobu Asano
Production House: BS Asahi, Bac Films, Canal+, Eisei Gekijo, Imagica Corp., Kadokawa Shoten Publishing Co., Oshima Productions, Recorded Picture Company (RPC), Shochiku Kinema Kenkyû-jo
Plot: A mysterious teenager joins the militia. His comrades and superiors [...]

A naughty video about Severus Snape

Friday, 19 June 2009, 21:19 | Category : Crumbs, Uncategorized
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I thought this was hilarious, I don’t normally like fan videos, but this one was edited really well. Poor Severus lol

P.S. Can you tell I’m avoiding studying for my exams? ;)

Two male penguins adopt a chick

Monday, 15 June 2009, 20:43 | Category : Crumbs, Curiosities
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I thought this was a rather amusing story :)